SIAP: So why not demand a surrender at the very least?
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From the NYT:
"The Sri Lankan president, Anura Dissanayake, made a public televised statement on Thursday, a day after an Iranian ship was torpedoed by the United States in the waters near Sri Lanka. He said that a second Iranian naval vessel, the IRINS Bushehr, asked the Sri Lankan government if it could dock at one of the country’s ports. Sri Lankan officials decided to bring the 208 people on the ship — 53 officers, 84 cadet officers, 48 senior sailors, 23 sailors — to Colombo and take the ship into custody in Trincomalee, on the east coast, rather than in Colombo, one of the busiest commercial ports in the world."
Al Jaazera:
"Sri Lanka has evacuated 208 crew members of an Iranian navy vessel, President Anura Kumara Dissanayake said, a day after a US submarine struck and sank another Iranian frigate.
He said Sri Lanka’s navy will also take over the second vessel and shift it to the northeastern port of Trincomalee for safekeeping amid fears that it could be a target for an attack."
So the US was also invited and knew the Iranian Navy would be unarmed. Withdrew and waited on their return to attack and sink their ship just to display it to the American public like it was and active warship. Rather dishonorable action in my estimation.