| | | Iran’s navy flexes muscle in the Gulf region, unveils 340 new missile firing speedboats
FEB 11, 2021 8:00 AM BY CHRISTINE DOUGLASS-WILLIAMS
Iran’s navy has unveiled 340 new missile firing speedboats. This is highly significant, considering the heightened brazenness of the regime in recent weeks. A couple days ago, Iran’s supreme leader, the Ayatollah Khamenei, demanded that Biden lift sanctions before Iran even returns to talks on a renewed nuke deal. But Biden has refused to lift sanctions unless Iran returns to the negotiating table to broker a deal, leaving Iran and America at an impasse.
The regime has been escalating its military might with lightening speed as it rapidly moves toward making a nuclear bomb. Iran is also deeply religious and ascribes to doomsday theology, which is ignored by mainstream media despite its importance.
The Hidden – or Twelfth – Imam plays a dominant role in one specific form of Shi’ite Islamic theology, called “Twelverism,” which happens to be the primary belief system of Iran’s leadership. There is a messianic belief that at the end of days, the Hidden Imam will appear in the midst of a violent apocalyptic scenario played out on a battleground stained with infidels’ blood.
Also, “in the words of senior Iranian Ayatollah Mohammad Mehdi Mirbagheri: ‘In Order for the Hidden Imam to Reappear We Must Engage in Widespread Fighting with the West.'” Ayatollah Khamenei has also stated: “The return of this holy land [Israel] to the World of Islam is not a strange and unattainable matter.”
“Iran’s Navy unveils 340 new missile firing speedboats as Tehran looks to increase influence in the Persian Gulf,” RT, February 8, 2021:
Iran’s latest homegrown military hardware, capable of cruising at 90nots/h, was unveiled in front of the armed forces top brass on Monday amid a buildup of foreign naval assets in the Persian Gulf.
“Today, marine vessels which cruise at 90nots/h will be unveiled… God willing, we will go toward (building) speed vessels with 100knots/h speed,” Rear Admiral Tangsiri told reporters on Monday ahead of a ceremony to inaugurate 340 navy speedboats in the port city of Bandar Abbas.
“Iran has several times sent messages to the Persian Gulf littoral states that this region belongs to the Persian Gulf littoral states and we are capable of establishing security through sympathy among the neighboring states in the region,” he added.
Iran’s Fars News shared a photo on Twitter of the boats being unveiled.
The speedboats will be part of the Iranian Navy and will operate in the Persian Gulf, the Sea of Oman, and the Caspian Sea.
Tangsiri contended that for many years, the foreign forces distorted regional security and have attempted to legitimize their illegal deployment in the region. In January, the Pentagon reversed its decision to pull the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz from the Middle East.
Iran has been increasingly keen to show off its military might in early 2021, hosting a series of wargames along the Persian Gulf and conducting missile tests.
Just days before US President Joe Biden took office, Iran staged a massive drone and missile exercise in the desert without forewarning amid rising tensions with Washington and its allies.
The show of force closely followed a two-day missile exercise in the Gulf of Oman… |
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