{"id":40537,"date":"2014-03-21T11:02:14","date_gmt":"2014-03-21T15:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=40537"},"modified":"2014-03-21T11:02:14","modified_gmt":"2014-03-21T15:02:14","slug":"irans-toy-boat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=40537","title":{"rendered":"Iran&#8217;s toy boat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=40538\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-40538\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/nimitz_carrier-300x218.jpg\" alt=\"nimitz_carrier\" width=\"300\" height=\"218\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-40538\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/nimitz_carrier-300x218.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/nimitz_carrier-456x333.jpg 456w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/nimitz_carrier.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/03\/21\/world\/middleeast\/a-ship-being-built-in-iran-looks-awfully-familiar-to-the-us.html?_r=0\">New York Times<\/a> reports that Iran has been throwing away their money on building a boat that looks like our Nimitz-class carriers (a real Nimitz-class is pictured above), but in 2:3 scale and without a nuclear propulsion system. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cBased on our observations, this is not a functioning aircraft carrier; it\u2019s a large barge built to look like an aircraft carrier,\u201d said Cmdr. Jason Salata, a spokesman for the Navy\u2019s Fifth Fleet in Bahrain, across the Persian Gulf from Iran. \u201cWe\u2019re not sure what Iran hopes to gain by building this. If it is a big propaganda piece, to what end?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Whatever the purpose, American officials acknowledged on Thursday that they wanted to reveal the existence of the vessel to get out ahead of the Iranians.<\/p>\n<p>Navy and other American intelligence analysts surmise that the vessel, which Fifth Fleet wags have nicknamed the Target Barge, is something that Iran could tow to sea, anchor and blow up \u2014 while filming the whole thing to make a propaganda point, if, say, the talks with the Western powers over Iran\u2019s nuclear program go south.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We should drone the thing while it&#8217;s being built &#8211; that would send a better message than whatever Iran is thinking of doing with it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times reports that Iran has been throwing away their money on building a &hellip; <a title=\"Iran&#8217;s toy boat\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=40537\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Iran&#8217;s toy boat<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40537\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}