Srinagar, March 11 -- Many people have endorsed Tehran's view that the sinking of its battleship IRIS Dena with 180 people on board by a US submarine 19 nautical miles off Sri Lanka's Galle port in which 148 of its crew lost their lives was a "war crime." They believe so because this battleship had left its home port to participate in an international fleet review and multilateral maritime exercise. As these were ceremonial events, IRIS Dena would have been carrying only the minimum basic munitions and hence couldn't have been a meaningful threat-in-being. However, experts opine that once the US declared war on Iran, IRIS Dena technically became a legitimate military target as it was a warship with cannons, missiles and surface-to-air mis...