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  "path": "/news/hotspots/166065-us-submarine-sinks-iranian-warship-indian-ocean/",
  "publishedAt": "2026-03-04T15:09:00.000Z",
  "site": "https://english.pravda.ru",
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  "textContent": "A US submarine torpedoed and sank an Iranian warship in the Indian Ocean, marking what the Pentagon calls the first such American attack on an enemy vessel since World War II.\nPentagon Confirms Torpedo Strike\n\nUS Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announced that an American submarine carried out the strike against an Iranian naval vessel operating in international waters.\n\"Yesterday in the Indian Ocean, an American submarine sank an Iranian warship that believed it was safe in international waters. Instead, it was sunk with a torpedo,\" Pete Hegseth said.\n\nHegseth described the operation as the first time since World War II that the United States has sunk a foreign vessel using a torpedo.",
  "title": "US Submarine Sinks Iranian Warship in Indian Ocean in First Torpedo Strike Since WWII"
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