New Delhi, March 7 -- Sri Lankan MP Harsha de Silva expressed shock following the sinking of the Iranian frigate IRIS Dena by a U.S. submarine on March 4, 2026.

Harsha de Silva, MP, Chair of the Committee on Public Finance of the Parliament in Sri Lanka, while talking to ANI, said regional neighbours have traditionally viewed the Indian Ocean as a zone of peace and connectivity and torpedoing of a warship is seen as a dangerous escalation that brings the West Asian conflict directly into South Asian waters.

"Indian Ocean has always been a peaceful place, and we've always said, look, we need rules-based order and freedom of navigation in the Indo-Pacific was the thing that everyone wanted to achieve and was driven really by the United St...