ISLAMABAD — While President Trump said the US has “defeated the Iranian navy,” pointing to waves of strikes that wiped out warships, submarines and key military sites since late February, Tehran was still able to force closed the Strait of Hormuz.

The USS Torsk, a historic submarine that's now a museum in Baltimore, was the last US Navy submarine to sink an enemy ship until Operation Epic Fury.

An Iranian Tareq-class submarine at sea - Omid Vahabzadeh/Wikimedia Commons/CC BY 4.0 After the United States and Israel attacked Iran in late February 2026, it became increasingly important to determine how many warships Iran's navy has. However ...

Sri Lanka had been refusing to send back the Iranian Navy personnel, including survivors from a warship that the United States torpedoed, during active hostilities.

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More than 200 Iranian sailors who were rescued by Sri Lanka from two sinking warships at the start of the war have been sent back to their home, a senior official has said. Sri Lankan forces rescued 32 Iranian crew members from the warship Iris Dena on 4 March after it was struck by torpedo fired by a US submarine,

A U.S. submarine has carried out a devastating torpedo strike, sinking an Iranian warship that appeared completely unaware of the attack. The strike marked the first real submarine combat shot in decades,