Iran fires missiles, Khamenei threatens to sink US warship as nuclear talks start

SCMP · 2026-02-17
Iran fires missiles, Khamenei threatens to sink US warship as nuclear talks start

Iran fired live missiles towards the Strait of Hormuz while its supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, warned that the US warship deployed in the Gulf could be sunk, as nuclear talks between the two countries started. “We constantly hear that they [the US] have sent a warship towards Iran. A warshi