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Mocking Power

"Based on our observations, this is not a functioning aircraft carrier; it's a large barge built to look like an aircraft carrier. We're not sure what Iran hopes to gain by building this. If it is a big propaganda piece, to what end?"
Cmdr. Jason Salata, spokesman, US. Navy Fifth Fleet, Bahrain

"It is not surprising that Iranian military forces might use a variety of tactics -- including military deception tactics -- to strategically communicate and possibly demonstrate their resolve in the region."
U.S. Official

"The system is often too opaque to understand who hatched this idea and whether it was endorsed at the highest levels."
Karim Sadjadpour, Iran expert, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Really? Puzzlement? That an obviously non-authentic piece of military equipment is being built, and for what purpose is beyond reckoning? Child's play, but difficult to discern by serious-minded military and intelligence minds. Propaganda, yes, there's a hint, and it's more than a hint. It's an entertainment ploy to amuse and enthuse the Iranian electorate, to infuse them with  patriotic zeal for the Islamist government to continue its pursuit of nuclear technology.

To defeat the fascist Americans, intent on dominating and subduing Iranian ambitions to demonstrate that they are a great power whom the United States has overlooked the need to respect and honour. To persuade ordinary Iranians that their sacrifices imposed upon them through international sanctions led by the Great Satan were not for nothing; it was their duty as loyal Iranians to support their government in its refusal to come to heel at the command of the United States.

The mock-up of the U.S. nuclear-powered aircraft carrier will feature largely in an impressive theatrical show of Iranian military prowess overcoming the best and fiercest destructive elements of American naval and air power. The travesty of a foreign country seeking to oppress an Islamic nation of such historical fame and blameless presence within the international community cannot go unanswered. Grim amusement for the Ayatollahs.

Iran's answer will be the film coming to Internet sources world-wide, bringing America to its knees when the forces of mercy and goodness exemplified by the Islamic Republic of Iran will overcome the evil plans of the world's perennial bully, as the Great Satan gets its comeuppance. And then, it will be on to the Little Satan, whose presence in the Middle East is an abomination to Islam.

Labels: Armaments, Iran, Nuclear Technology, United States

posted by Pieface @ Monday, March 24, 2014