19 Killed & 40 Missing Or Wounded After Iranian Destroyer Mistakenly Fires On Own Warship

by Tyler Durden

Mon, 05/11/2020 - 06:16

Since President Trump pulled the US out of the JCPOA (better known as "the Iran nuclear deal"), Iran has suffered one embarrassing mishap after the next. Earlier this year, the IRGC accidentally shot down a Ukrainian passenger airliner filled with young Iranian students. The fact that the regime ineptly lied about the shoot-down, before finally coming clean in the face of overwhelming evidence, only compounded the embarrassment.

At around the same time the coronavirus was just beginning its spread across Western Europe, Ieaked reports out of Iran revealed that the mysterious new virus was already spreading like wildfire, dropping hundreds of bodies as public health officials scrambled to jerry-rig a credible response plan, while American sanctions limited the country's ability to import critical supplies like medicine (a problem that Iran's sympathizers in the EU helped it solve).
And now, in the early hours of Monday morning, Iran's military has stumbled into another epic f*ckup: The NYT reports that 19 Iranian sailors have died, 15 were injured and nearly 2 dozen more are missing after a missile test at sea went horribly awry. An Iranian ship sustained "friendly fire" as a target-seeking missile slammed into its stern instead of striking the dummy "target" thw ship had just towed out to sea.

Official details of the incident were scant, and the navy said that 15 other people were injured. But four people with knowledge of the incident said that the ship, identified as the missile boat Konarak, was hit and sunk by a missile from the frigate Jamaran by mistake. They spoke on the condition of anonymity to avoid reprisal from Iranian officials.
"The scope of the incident is under investigation by experts," Iran’s Navy said in a statement.

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