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Iranian film depicts Gulf battle in which Iran obliterates US Navy fleet

Mar 2, 2017 10:31 am By Robert Spencer

Iran is engaging in a great deal of this saber-rattling and boasting. As I detail in my book The Complete Infidel’s Guide to Iran, there are numerous high-placed Iranian officials who state openly that they would welcome war with the United States. And now that they don’t have their compliant stooge Obama in the White House, they may get their wish. If so, it is unlikely to turn out the way Battle of the Persian Gulf II does.

“Iranian film hails demise of US Navy in imagined Gulf battle,” by Nasser Karimi, Associated Press, March 2, 2017:

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — In a climactic battle at sea, an Iranian commander orders his forces to open fire on a much larger U.S. fleet, obliterating it with a barrage of rockets, some of which tear American flags from their masts.

The scenario unfolds in “Battle of the Persian Gulf II,” a new Iranian animated film more than four years in the making that imagines a devastating response to an American attack on the country’s nuclear program….

Director Farhad Azima says the timing of the film’s release is purely coincidental. The movie has begun showing in the city of Mashhad, where it was produced, and will open in other cities in the coming weeks.

The nearly 90-minute film, a sequel to a production about the 1980s Iran-Iraq war, begins with a U.S. attack on an Iranian nuclear reactor. Washington has long warned it would take military action to prevent Iran from developing an atomic weapon, while Iran insists its nuclear program is entirely peaceful.

That sets up a showdown in the Persian Gulf, where the real-life U.S. Navy has accused Iranian forces of harassing its vessels in recent months.

In the film, a character who closely resembles Gen. Qassem Soleimani, head of Iran’s elite Quds Force, leads a single vessel against more than a dozen American warships. When a U.S. commander orders him to surrender or die, he replies: “”General, I am not a diplomat, I am a revolutionary!”

He warns that any American soldiers taking part in an attack on Iran “should order their coffins,” before his forces destroy the whole U.S. fleet….

Azima says his film cost $250,000 to make, and that producers raised the funds from ordinary people. He said there was no government involvement in the project.

“This is a response to hundreds of (anti-Iranian) American movies and video games,” he said. “We are saying that if you fire one bullet against Iran, a rain of hot lead will be poured on your forces.”

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  1. Dum Spiro says

    Mar 2, 2017 at 10:37 am

    How soon before they erect those statues? https://www.jihadwatch.org/2016/03/islamic-republic-of-iran-to-build-a-statue-of-captured-u-s-sailors

    You see the Islamic supremacy ideology in action here…
    — Spero

  2. Kevin L. Maguire says

    Mar 2, 2017 at 10:44 am

    Brain dead stupid folks in the west will do nothing either. The West really is a bunch of cowards and spineless, self righteous hypocrites who would rather be PC than use your brain. I hope its not to late. Thank God for President Trump

  3. Bill says

    Mar 2, 2017 at 10:46 am

    Hard to tell this one apart from a Hollywood production. It will probably get an Oscar nomination next year.

  4. Diane Harvey says

    Mar 2, 2017 at 11:12 am

    “Iranian film hails demise of US Navy in imagined Gulf battle,”

    narrated by Baghdad Bob,

  5. Emilie Green says

    Mar 2, 2017 at 11:18 am

    “[H]e replies: ”General, I am not a diplomat, I am a revolutionary!””

    Wow. Such amazing dialogue.

    Kinda right up there with,

    “Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn.”

    “I’ll make him an offer he can’t refuse.”

    “I’m shocked, shocked, to find that gambling is going on in here!”

  6. pennant8 says

    Mar 2, 2017 at 3:18 pm

    The last time they tried this the USN sunk their little leaky fleet before lunch.

    • Spike1033 says

      Mar 3, 2017 at 6:20 am

      Much like Saddam Hussein’s comment before the 2nd Iraq war. When the American’s went in they couldn’t even find the Iraqi army much less fight them.

      • Paskudni says

        Mar 3, 2017 at 4:25 pm

        ” The mother of all battles” Saddam said.

  7. isabella van der westhuizen says

    Mar 2, 2017 at 3:22 pm

    Why has the USN not gone and kicked these guys butts yet

  8. Westman says

    Mar 2, 2017 at 6:03 pm

    Since the Iranian producers are being silly and unrealistic – the film is incomplete. In the same vein, it should also show the mushroom clouds over the largest 8 cities, from Tehran to Qom.

    • Tom Davis says

      Mar 3, 2017 at 1:07 am

      We should be more concerned about mushroom clouds over (or under) USN vessels.

  9. Angemon says

    Mar 2, 2017 at 6:53 pm

    “This is a response to hundreds of (anti-Iranian) American movies and video games,” he said.

    Such as? How far back does one need to dig to get “hundreds” of “anti-Iranian” movies and videogames?

    • Carolyne says

      Mar 3, 2017 at 12:11 pm

      Once, when in Turkey, I heard a villager in Istanbul said he had seen an American movie before leaving his village. He said that Americans were certainly funny-looking. Turns out he had seen a Mickey Mouse cartoon.

      This is like the Iranians. They make an amateur movie and think it’s true. Idiots.

      It is not a good idea to awaken a sleeping giant. We have been sleeping since 1979 but are now stirring awake, thanks to President Trump.

  10. Gamaliel says

    Mar 3, 2017 at 7:11 am

    Unfortunately Iran is very powerful now. We let them get that way. Russia helped them get that way.

    • RichardL says

      Mar 3, 2017 at 8:51 am

      Iranian soldiers operate the machines. The same soldiers that fought Iraqi soldiers for 10 years without a result.

      How long did the Gulf war last?

      The only mohammedan soldiers that are good are the Turks.

  11. RichardL says

    Mar 3, 2017 at 7:35 am

    Lepanto has left deep scars on the mohammedan psyche.

    I very sincerely hope that the Iranians attack Trump’s Navy. Lepanto II will last 30 minutes and then there will be no targets left for the USN on the water or near the coast.

  12. JOEL A TOMPKINS says

    Mar 3, 2017 at 7:52 am

    With the ships we have now they will not stand a chance in hell of this film coming true . the weapons on the new ships and take down anything they put in the air.

  13. RK says

    Mar 3, 2017 at 12:07 pm

    WAKE THE HELL UP AMERICA- NOTE THESE WORDS FROM THEIR OWN MOUTHS AND NO WE SHOULD “NOT” LIVE IN FEAR BECUZ OF THEIR THREATS AND/OR GIVE IN- THATS GIVING UP, PERIOD AND THATS HOW THEY TAKE OVER! JUST LOOK AT WHAT’S GOING ON IN THE WEST- COWARDS COWARDS COWARDS WITH NO HIGH STANDARDS OR MORALS- JUST COWARDS WITH NO BACKBONE OF INTEGRITY OR COURAGE!
    NOTE THESE WORDS- “We are saying that if you fire one bullet against Iran, a rain of hot lead will be poured on your forces.”

    AND TO THINK THIS FILM WAS HONORED AT THE AWARDS BY HOLLYWOOD, WTF. REFUSE TO SUPPORT ANY AND ALL HOLLYWOOD LIBERALS…. THEY ARE DELUSIONAL AND SERIOUSLY IN DENIL OF REALITY AND THE TRUTH. MAYBE ALL THAT PLAY ACTING HAS GONE TO THEIR HEADS AND THEY COMPLETELY LOST TOUCH WITH REALITY. SAD SAD TIMES. GOD HELP US.

  14. Carolyne says

    Mar 3, 2017 at 12:14 pm

    They can’t even run an awards show, much less a country.

  15. don vito says

    Mar 3, 2017 at 5:52 pm

    Michael moore voice of the general soliman character.

  16. killerjools says

    Mar 3, 2017 at 9:36 pm

    It’s a prospect which should by all rights evoke hysterical laughter, and the Iranian military is a joke. But I think it’s got a better than zero prospect of happening because the left is so spineless about Iran and its nuclear ambitions.

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