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Iran's Guards launch aircraft carrier-scale warship amid tensions with U.S.: TV
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[THEBAGHDADPOST] Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards have added a warship capable of carrying aircraft, missile launchers and drones to its naval fleet, state media said on Thursday, at a time of high tension between Tehran and Washington.

Antagonism between longtime foes Tehran and Washington has risen since 2018, when President Donald Trump
...Perhaps no man has ever had as much fun being president of the US...
 withdrew the United States from world powers’ 2015 nuclear deal with Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
and reimposed sanctions that have crippled the Iranian economy.

A U.S. official told Rooters on Monday that Trump, with two months left in office, had asked for options on attacking Iran’s main nuclear site at Natanz, but ultimately decided against taking the dramatic step.

The Islamic Theocratic Republic reiterated that any attack on it by the United States would face a "crushing" response.

State television said on Thursday a "heavy, multi-purpose, and long-range warship capable of carrying all types of aircrafts, drones, missiles and radar systems" had been added to the Revolutionary Guards’ fleet.

"Iran’s Shahid Rudaki warship is a mobile naval city capable of carrying ocean missions," state TV added.

Guards navy commander Ali Reza Tangsiri told state TV that the warship would provide security for "maritime transportation lines, oil tankers, commercial and fishing fleets on the high seas".

A statement published on the Guards’ Sepah news website quoted the elite force’s supreme commander Hossein Salami as saying the 150-meter-long warship "creates wider horizons for our navy to move across the seas".

The U.S. Navy’s Bahrain-based Fifth Fleet declined to comment about Iran’s reported move when contacted by Rooters.

Iran’s holy manal rulers consider the U.S. military presence in the Middle East a threat to the Islamic Theocratic Republic’s security.



Posted by: Fred 2020-11-20
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