Originally Posted by
Jimbo2Papa
...and within the last few minutes the BBC have done a "ninja edit" on that piece linked to above to remove all references to the IRGC.
A single line at the bottom of the article now reports the two vessels were said to belong to the naval forces of the Iranian Army.
So someone's been on the phone to them - perhaps from a near by embassy - pretty smartish.
I saw the story on another forum so I was able to copy the original text,
An Iranian navy "friendly fire" incident in which a ship was sunk has killed dozens of sailors, unofficial reports say.
Local journalists said the frigate Jamaran was testing a new anti-ship missile which locked onto and hit Konarak, a logistical ship.
Semi-official Iranian news agency Fars said one sailor was killed and several others injured in a naval exercise.
It described the incident on Sunday near the Strait of Hormuz as a "crash".
According to the unofficial reports, Jamaran - operated by Iran's Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) - fired the missile prematurely before Konarak had time to sail away from a floating target it had towed to a designated position.
Videos posted on social media show injured sailors being transferred to ambulances.
In January, the IRGC mistakenly shot down a Ukrainian passenger plane near Tehran, killing all 176 people on board, at a time of heightened tension with the US.