{"id":549175,"date":"2021-06-02T09:50:50","date_gmt":"2021-06-02T13:50:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=549175"},"modified":"2021-06-02T09:50:52","modified_gmt":"2021-06-02T13:50:52","slug":"irans-largest-warship-catches-fire-under-unclear-circumstances-sinks-in-gulf-on-oman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/irans-largest-warship-catches-fire-under-unclear-circumstances-sinks-in-gulf-on-oman\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran\u2019s Largest Warship Catches Fire \u2018Under Unclear Circumstances,\u2019 Sinks In Gulf On Oman"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Firans-largest-warship-catches-fire-under-unclear-circumstances-sinks-in-gulf-on-oman%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=549175&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Iran-1200x800-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>Iran\u2019s largest warship caught fire and sank Wednesday in the Gulf of Oman in what is just the latest series of mysterious fires and explosions to rock Iran in recent weeks.<\/p>\n<p>The Washington Post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/fire-strikes-largest-iranian-navy-ship-forcing-evacuation\/2021\/06\/02\/6768212e-c362-11eb-89a4-b7ae22aa193e_story.html\">reported<\/a> that the fire erupted \u201cunder unclear circumstances\u201d around 2:25 a.m. and firefighters battled it for 20 hours before the nearly 680-foot Kharg sank. The ship was used to resupply other ships, conduct training exercises, and had been in use for more than four decades.<\/p>\n<p>The Jerusalem Post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/middle-east\/iran-news\/disaster-for-iran-as-its-largest-naval-ship-sinks-669861\">reported<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"9\">\n<p><em>The vessel left for training at sea several days ago. It caught fire for some reason when a \u201csystem\u201d failed on board. The Kharg suffered devastating damage despite Iran\u2019s best efforts to send military personnel to fight the fire.\u00a0 It comes a day after an Iranian aircraft crashed and two elite pilots died. \u2026 This appears to be a major setback for Iran. Iran has recently tried to increase its naval footprint, acquiring new ships and sending ships to the Red Sea and to Venezuela. \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The news comes as the Biden administration is in talks with Iran, which is the world\u2019s leading state sponsor of terrorism, to reenter the highly controversial Iran nuclear deal.<\/p>\n<p>The news also comes after Israel was repeatedly attacked by Palestinian terrorists last month who launched more than 4,300 rockets at Israel. One of the terrorist organizations in Gaza <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/world\/hamas-leader-thanks-iran-for-supplying-weapons-to-gaza\">publicly thanked<\/a> Iran for supplying it with the weapons that it used to attack Israel.<\/p>\n<p>Some analysts cautioned that the ship may have not been attacked and that Iran had a long history of naval disasters, including <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JasonMBrodsky\/status\/1400083515895656449\">accidentally<\/a> shooting their own ships.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"6.2950819672131\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Video circulating via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AuroraIntel?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@AuroraIntel<\/a> of the massive fire aboard <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Iran?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Iran<\/a>&#8216;s Navy&#8217;s IRIS Kharg before it sank today. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7VQtXpQpvL\">pic.twitter.com\/7VQtXpQpvL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jason Brodsky (@JasonMBrodsky) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JasonMBrodsky\/status\/1400030049726836737?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 2, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Following last month\u2019s ceasefire between Israel and the Palestinian terrorist organizations, numerous explosions and fires erupted at Iranian petrochemical plants.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne person was killed and two others were injured in an explosion and fire at a petrochemical plant in Asaluyeh in southern Iran along the coast of the Persian Gulf \u2026 in the third such incident in the past four days,\u201d The Jerusalem Post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/breaking-news\/one-dead-two-injured-in-blast-at-iranian-petrochemical-plant-669230\">reported<\/a> last week. \u201cEarlier this week incidents were reported at petrochemical plants at the Kangan Petro Refining Co. (KPRC) and in Shahin Shahr.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>An attack last month believed to have come from Israel crippled Iran\u2019s Natanz nuclear facility so badly that the facility might not be able to continue enriching uranium until next year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTwo intelligence officials briefed on the damage said it had been caused by a large explosion that completely destroyed the independent \u2014 and heavily protected \u2014 internal power system that supplies the underground centrifuges that enrich uranium,\u201d The New York Times\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/04\/11\/world\/middleeast\/iran-nuclear-natanz.html\">reported<\/a> last month. \u201cThe officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe a classified Israeli operation, said that the explosion had dealt a severe blow to Iran\u2019s ability to enrich uranium and that it could take at least nine months to restore Natanz\u2019s production.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><i><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i><span>member<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran\u2019s largest warship caught fire and sank Wednesday in the Gulf of Oman in what is just the latest series of mysterious fires and explosions to rock Iran in recent &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2278885,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Iran-1200x800-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Iran\u2019s Largest Warship Catches Fire \u2018Under Unclear Circumstances,\u2019 Sinks In Gulf On Oman","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-549175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Iran-1200x800-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Iran\u2019s Largest Warship Catches Fire \u2018Under Unclear Circumstances,\u2019 Sinks In Gulf On Oman","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=549175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549175\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2278885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}