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Trucks carry bodies of Iranian sailors, who died following a submarine attack on Iranian military ship, IRIS Dena, off the coast of Sri Lanka, to an airport, in Galle, yesterday. (Reuters) Sri Lanka is repatriating yesterday the remains of 84 Iranian sailors who perished when their frigate was sunk nine days ago by a US submarine, the Foreign Ministry said.The seamen were killed when IRIS Dena was torpedoed on March 4 just off the coast of Sri Lanka, in a move that extended the Middle East war to the Indian Ocean."All domestic procedures have been completed, and the Iranians are bringing a chartered aircraft for the repatriation," spokesman Thushara Rodrigo told AFP."The 32 sailors who were rescued by our navy will remain in Sri Lanka."The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) had been contacted regarding the injured sailors, but they were not involved in the repatriation of the bodies, Rodrigo said.A second Iranian warship, IRIS Bushehr, was allowed into Sri Lankan waters a day after Dena was sunk. Sri Lanka is providing safe harbour for the ship and its crew of 219.Sri Lankan officials said they have not begun discussions on repatriating the Bushehr crew and those rescued from Dena, but they will be treated in line with Colombo's treaty obligations.Of the 32 sailors rescued and hospitalised, 22 have since been discharged and are being held at an air force base in the south of the island away from the Bushehr crew. Sri Lanka is currently hosting a total of 251 Iranian sailors.— 'Humanitarian considerations' —Crew from the Bushehr are held at a navy camp just north of Colombo, while their ship has been taken over by Sri Lanka's navy, which is trying to repair one of the two engines that were reportedly malfunctioning.A third Iranian ship passed Sri Lanka and entered safe harbour in India's southern port of Kochi. That vessel's 183 crew are in Indian custody.Both Colombo and New Delhi have said they provided shelter to the Iranian sailors due to "humanitarian considerations" amid fears that they too could be killed in US attacks.The ships had been taking part in a naval exercise organised by India off the coast of Visakhapatnam when the US and Israel began bombing Iran.A local undertaker said the embalmed remains of the Iranian sailors were being sent back in sealed boxes.They are to be flown out of Sri Lanka from Mattala International Airport in the south of the country, officials said, as security was stepped up at the airport, which is located within a wildlife sanctuary.The first batch of 46 bodies was already at the airport by yesterday afternoon, awaiting an Iranian chartered cargo plane, an official told AFP.The bodies, which were plucked from the Indian Ocean, were taken to Karapitiya Hospital in Galle, 115 kilometres (72 miles) south of the capital, where autopsies were carried out.A local magistrate ordered that the bodies be handed over to the Iranian embassy in Colombo for repatriation to the next of kin.There was no immediate comment from the Iranian embassy when contacted by AFP.
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US President Donald Trump has said repeatedly the United States is in talks with high-level Cuban representatives, and that Cuba is eager to reach a deal to defuse tensions between the two neighbours that have deepened the island’s economic crisis. The Cuban government has denied any official talks are under way, but has yet to explicitly deny press reports that US officials were in talks with Raul Guillermo Rodriguez Castro, the grandson of former Cuban President Raul Castro, who is 94 and still wields great influence. If talks are taking place, they come at a time when Washington has tightened its economic sanctions on Cuba by imposing a near-total oil blockade, and after the US captured Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on January 3, removing a crucial Cuban ally from power. Raul Castro fought alongside his older brother Fidel in the revolution that toppled a US ally in 1959 and served as his brother’s loyal defence minister for decades. He ascended to the presidency, first on an interim basis when Fidel got sick in 2006, then took over definitively when Fidel retired in 2008. With Fidel’s death in 2016, Raul assumed the mantle as the single unifying leader among those loyal to the Cuban revolution. He still wields influence even after stepping down as president in 2018 and as leader of the Communist Party in 2021, since then carrying the honorific title army general. At his 2018 swearing-in ceremony, current President Miguel Diaz-Canel said Raul Castro “will lead the most important decisions for the present and future of the nation.” That was on public display as recently as December 2025. As Cuba’s Communist Party prepared to choose Diaz-Canel’s successor at an all-important party congress this year, Raul Castro proposed postponing the congress indefinitely, given Cuba’s economic crisis. The party’s Central Committee approved the proposal unanimously. Known as “El Cangrejo,” or “The Crab,” because of his hand, Rodriguez Castro, 41, is widely seen as one of his grandfather’s closest confidants. As former bodyguard to Raul Castro, he was at his grandfather’s side, sometimes dressed in the military uniform of the Interior Ministry, throughout Raul Castro’s presidency. He has been reported to hold the rank of lieutenant colonel. The Cuban government did not immediately respond to a query about Rodriguez Castro’s biography or possible role in negotiations. Axios, citing three unnamed sources, reported on February 18 that Rodriguez Castro was in secret talks with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio. ‘The Miami Herald’, citing unnamed sources, reported on February 26 that officials close to Rubio met with Rodriguez Castro on the sidelines of a regional Caribbean Community conference in St Kitts and Nevis. The Trump administration has been having secret, high-level conversations with several people in Raúl Castro’s inner circle, similar to the discussions held in Venezuela before the US captured Maduro in a military raid earlier this year, US Representative Mario Díaz-Balart told the ‘Miami Herald’. Rodriguez Castro is the son of Raul’s daughter Deborah Castro Espin and the late General Luis Alberto Rodriguez Lopez-Calleja, who was head of the military business conglomerate GAESA. During Raul Castro’s presidency, GAESA assumed control of the state’s most important businesses including hotels, banking, logistics and retail. Rodriguez Lopez-Calleja died of a heart attack in 2022 at age 62. Media reports suggest Rodriguez Castro may have taken a role in his late father’s company. That lineage places Rodriguez Castro at the intersection of Cuba’s political leadership and its most powerful economic institution, making him a potentially significant go-between for Washington. Rodriguez Castro has never spoken publicly nor given interviews. If “El Cangrejo” is acting as a back-channel connection between Havana and Washington, he would be playing a similar role to that of his uncle and Raul Castro’s son, Alejandro Castro Espin, who conducted then-secret negotiations marking a major shift by Washington toward Cuba during Barack Obama’s presidency.
