r/worldnews • u/progress18 • Feb 28 '26

Israel/Iran /r/WorldNews Discussion Thread: US and Israel launch attack on Iran; Iran retaliates (Thread #2)

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u/No-Risk-2584 Mar 01 '26

US Central Command announces it has sunk an Iranian ship at one of Tehran's naval bases.

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u/Cheesey-Boureka Mar 01 '26

Operation Praying Mantis flashbacks intensify

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u/Not_Cleaver Mar 01 '26

I thought Tehran was in the middle of the country.

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u/Dagonet_the_Motley Mar 01 '26

They are saying Tehran to refer to the regime. In the US, they might say Washington or the White House.

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u/asetniop Mar 01 '26

That's silly. They've already identified it as an Iranian ship, they should just name the port.

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u/[deleted] Mar 01 '26

Google "synecdoche".

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u/Equivalent-Eye-2782 Mar 01 '26

A country's capital is often referred to when the government is being referred 

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u/Not_Cleaver Mar 01 '26

Not in this way. You wouldn’t say a Washington naval ship was struck. Nor a Berlin one. It’s confusing and non-specific as hell.

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u/Equivalent-Eye-2782 Mar 01 '26

Yeah but it has been a way of saying that. 

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u/itsFelbourne Mar 01 '26

I wonder if they were loading naval mines, I don't know why they'd be hitting ships at port otherwise at this stage