An Iranian ship near Sri Lanka has requested for an “urgent port call”, said Sri Lankan MP Namal Rajapaksa on Thursday. This urgent request from the Iranian naval vessel comes a day after Iris Dena was sunk and torpedoed by a US submarine.
Iranian warship IRIS Dena as seen in the Bay of Bengal during International Fleet Review held at Visakhapatnam, India (AP)
"It has been brought to our notice that another Iranian vessel is in Sri Lanka’s Exclusive Economic Zone, just outside our territorial waters and has sought the government’s permission to make an urgent port call. However it is yet awaiting the government’s clearance," the MP wrote on social media platform X
