Iran: Fake carrier sinks outside major port

(Bandar Abbas)  In 2011  it was revealed that the Iranian government and the son of film director ‘Oliver Stone’ were going to collaborate in producing a film about the 1988 U.S. Downing of Flight 655 The project fell by the wayside, but not before a rather large model of a US Navy Carrier was built on top of a barge

In 2015, the Iranians came up with the idea of using the mock carrier for propaganda purposes in which to send the message that they could block the Strait of Hormuz if they wanted and so they carried out the“Great Prophet 14” exercises, where they not only launched Anti-ship missiles at the failed movie prop, they had soldiers abseiling onto the deck from overhead helicopters. 

After the exercise the damaged barge was towed to the port of Bandar Abbas where it languished until last year where the Iranian mullahs decided to repair the ship and use it for a military exercise in which to send the message to the US, that the Iranians could block the Strait of Hormuz if they wanted to and they did this by firing missiles at the fake aircraft carrier, but also had soldiers abseil onto its the deck . 

After this latest show of force the barge was been towed back to its home berth , when about ½ mile from the harbour entrance it turned on its side and sank with a large portion of it remaining out of the water, a few days later it settled even further into the seabed resulting in a huge sea hazard in front of a major Iranian port responsible for shipping the country’s oil overseas and also one of the Islamic Republic of Iran Navy’s largest naval bases.

The Iranian mullahs in trying to send the message that they could restrict access to the Great Satans Navy to the region if they wanted too, have ended up doing exactly that to themselves.

Oh the irony