Opinion | Sébastien Roblin: Iran seizes an oil tanker and attacks a dummy aircraft carrier in an attempt to inspire fear. - NBCNewsTHINK
An image grab from footage obtained from Iranian State TV IRIB on July 28 shows an Iranian mockup imitating a US aircraft carrier being encircled by speedboats during a military exercise near the Strait of Hormuz.Sébastien Roblin
A lot of suspicious, strange and downright surreal things have been happening in Iran these days. Some of them seem straight out of an action thriller, as a series of unexplained explosions have riddled Iranian nuclear facilities. And some of them really are straight out of Hollywood — a fake air force carrier supposedly built for a film by Oliver Stone’s son was the subject of a bizarre staged attack by Iran in July.
The mock assault it mounted on the dummy carrier to evoke fear in the militaries of the U.S. and regional enemies like Saudi Arabia instead concluded more like a comedy.
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