{"id":170722,"date":"2025-06-18T07:00:11","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T11:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=170722"},"modified":"2025-06-17T18:38:12","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T22:38:12","slug":"iran-inanities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=170722","title":{"rendered":"Iran inanities"},"content":{"rendered":"

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During the Israeli raids on Iran, Tehran claimed that somehow Iran brought down an Israeli Air Force F-35, shown above.<\/p>\n

Well, it sorta looks like an F-35, doesn’t it?<\/p>\n

‘Course, you have to remember that this is Iran, the same country that claimed a poorly photoshopped pic of an F-105 ’60s fighter was somehow their mysterious new gen-5 invincible fighter. Let’s just say their credibility is, well, suspect. So let’s see what Snopes has to say (yeah, they are leftists, but this is a different kind of opinion.)<\/p>\n

First of all, take a look at the SIZE of that thing. A genuine F35 is only 51 feet long. I’d give some of those skinny Iranians 18″ at the shoulders, so about 30 people end to end should be the length of the plane. In that pic? 30 people might get you half way.<\/p>\n

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Look at the intakes in the real photo – about 4-5 people wide. Again, the Iranian photo? That barely gets you from the edge of the intake to the centerline.<\/p>\n

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Furthermore, the logo on the right wing on the “fallen” F-35 jet is wrong. Per Getty Images photographs of Israeli F-35 jets, the actual logo is the Star of David, surrounded by a white circle, not the thick border given to the Star of David in the X posts. The photograph below shows an Israeli F-35 flying during an air show in Tel Aviv in April 2023:<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And there is another facet…<\/p>\n

We have also reported on inauthentic footage claiming to show Iran shooting down Israeli fighter jets. We learned the footage circulated online weeks before Israel launched attacks on Iran on June 13, 2025.\u00a0\u00a0Snopes<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Think I’ve got to agree with Snopes this time – the Iranians are, just possibly, being a tad less than fully truthful about this one.<\/p>\n

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Another player in the same game – China has been making some clandestine cargo flights to Iran.<\/p>\n

A day after Israel attacked Iran on Friday, a cargo plane took off from China. The next day, a second plane departed from a coastal city. Then on Monday, yet another departed, this time from Shanghai \u2013 three flights in three days.<\/p>\n

Data showed that on each flight, the plane flew westward along northern China, crossing into Kazakhstan, then south into Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan \u2013 and then falling off the radar as it neared Iran.<\/p>\n

To add to the mystery, flight plans indicated a final destination of Luxembourg, but the aircraft appeared to have never flown near European skies.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, I’m gonna flag that as “suspicious.”<\/p>\n

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China and Iran are strategic partners, aligned primarily in their opposition to the US-led world order, and in favour of a new \u201cmulti-polar\u201d phase in global diplomacy.<\/p>\n

Iran, too, is one of China\u2019s key energy suppliers, sending as many as two million barrels of oil a day \u2013 so it\u2019s no surprise that Beijing might be looking for ways to support and stabilise the Islamic Republic.\u00a0The Telegraph<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The aircraft are identified as cargo 747s, usable to haul all kinds of military goodies. As I recall a cargo ’47 will hold about 10 x 40′\u00a0 containers’ worth of stuff, or some fairly heavy equipment (read: military). Not the kind of stuff we want suddenly showing up in Iran – especially if we start sticking our noses in their. China would LOVE to have us expending military supplies well away from their Pacific AO, wouldn’t they?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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