{"id":207094,"date":"2020-05-11T15:10:59","date_gmt":"2020-05-11T15:10:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=207094"},"modified":"2020-05-13T06:30:16","modified_gmt":"2020-05-13T06:30:16","slug":"training-mishap-leaves-19-iranian-sailors-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=207094","title":{"rendered":"Training Mishap Leaves 19 Iranian Sailors Dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Iranian navy accidentally shoot one of their own warships with a missile during training exercise, killing 19 and leaving 15 injured<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong>Iranian frigate Jamaran accidentally opened fire on support ship during training<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong>Noor cruise missile struck the Konarak, killing 19 sailors and leaving 15 injured<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong>Konarak had been positioning targets for the Janaran to fire at but remained too close to one of them and was accidentally targeted, state-run media said\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong>Comes after Iran accidentally shot down a passenger plane over Tehran this year<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Chris Pleasance and Sophie Tanno \u2013 Daily Mail.com May 11, 2020<\/strong><\/h1>\n<div id=\"attachment_207095\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Konarek.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-207095\" class=\"wp-image-207095\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Konarek.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"303\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Konarek.jpg 634w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Konarek-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-207095\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Iran said the Konarak (pictured) had been towing a target into place for the Jamaran to fire at, but remained too close afterwards &#8211; causing the missile to lock on to it by mistake. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">An Iranian warship has accidentally opened fire on one of its own support vessels during a training exercise in the Gulf of Oman, killing 19 and leaving 15 injured.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The Jamaran, a frigate, had been attempting to hit a target with one of its Noor cruise missiles when it accidentally struck a support ship named Konarak instead.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The Konarak had been placing targets for the Janaran to hit but remained too close to one of them causing the missile to lock on to it by mistake, state-run media said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Nineteen people were &#8216;martyred&#8217; in the friendly-fire incident, the ISNA news agency said, while another 15 were admitted to hospital in a &#8216;good condition&#8217;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Iranian media denied earlier reports that the Konarak had sunk, saying the vessel was towed away for inspection afterwards.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The Konarak had been overhauled in 2018 and was able to launch sea and anti-ship missiles but was not actively participating in the drill, state outlets said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The Dutch-made, 155ft vessel was in service since 1988 and had capacity of 40 tons.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The friendly fire incident happened on Sunday near the port of Jask, some 790 miles southeast of Tehran, in the Gulf of Oman, state TV said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">It comes after Iran accidentally shot down a Ukrainian passenger plane as it was taking off from Tehran airport earlier this year, killing all 176 on board.<\/span><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kD-hJYXUsTw\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n&#8212;<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-8305891\/Iranian-destroyer-accidentally-opens-fire-one-warships.html\">Continues \u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iranian navy accidentally shoot one of their own warships with a missile during training exercise, killing 19 and leaving 15 injured<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Iran"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=207094"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":207097,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207094\/revisions\/207097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=207094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=207094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=207094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}