WASHINGTON - Amid rising tensions between Iran and the United States, the Islamic Republic appears to be developing a new artificial model of an aircraft carrier fleet on the southern coast.
The Associated Press on Tuesday obtained images of the artificial fleet, which looks like a US nuclear-powered aircraft carrier during a routine patrol in the Persian Gulf. Twenty percent of the world's oil production comes from the Persian Gulf.
Iranian officials have not yet confirmed this, but the presence of a fictitious navy in the coastal city of Bandar Abbas suggests that Iran's Revolutionary Guards are mocking the US Navy during naval exercises in 2005. Requirements
All of this is happening at a time when Iran announced on Tuesday that it was prosecuting a man accused of informing the United States about the movements of former Revolutionary Guards commander Qasim Soleimani. provides.
General Soleimani was killed in a US airstrike in January this year.
Sixteen artificial fighter jets can be seen on satellite imagery on the deck of this artificial fleet. This spot fleet is 200 meters long and 50 meters wide. The original US Navy, which is repeated, is 300 meters long and 75 meters wide.
The aircraft is a short distance from where 100 new speedboats were introduced in May. These speedboats are equipped with machine guns and missiles.