India, March 5 -- After a US Virginia-class SSN sank the Iranian corvette Dena on the high seas, 50 nautical miles off the coast of Galle, all eyes are now on the Iranian military tanker Busheir, which is anchored 10 nautical miles off the outer anchorage of Colombo Port. While Dena was sunk by a torpedo with a 20-nautical-mile range fired from a nuclear attack submarine in international waters, Busheir is well within Sri Lankan territorial waters.

With Iran attempting to target US strike groups and oil tankers in the Straits of Hormuz, IRIS Dena and 17 other warships, including Russian Kilo-class submarines, were sunk by the US Navy in an effort to defang the Iranian maritime threat to warships and international shipping. For those reti...