Sri Lanka, March 6 -- The UN Navy submarine torpedo that struck the IRIS Dena did not discriminate. It found an unarmed Iranian naval vessel carrying 180 sailors homeward bound from a multilateral exercise - Milan 2026 -hosted by the Indian Navy in the waters off Visakhapatnam. The ship was not a threat. It was not armed for combat. It was returning, in the ordinary course of naval routine, from an exercise built on the principles of maritime cooperation and mutual trust. What the United States Navy did to that vessel and the men aboard it was not an act of war in any legally or morally defensible sense. It was an act of murder at sea.

We must say that plainly, because the language of geopolitics has a way of laundering atrocity into abs...