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Iran warns America that it has “launched a new, locally-built submarine capable of firing cruise missiles”

Feb 20, 2019 3:00 pm By Christine Douglass-Williams

Iran has “launched a new, locally-built submarine capable of firing cruise missiles…in the country’s latest show of military might at a time of heightened tensions with the US…..The launch ceremony, led by President Hassan Rouhani, took place in the southern port city of Bandar Abbas.”

Rouhani stated:

Today the Islamic Republic of Iran is fully self-reliant on land, air and sea….Our defensive power is meant to defend our interests and we have never sought to attack any country.”

“Never sought to attack any country”? Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei announced in 2015 that the “Zionist regime will cease to exist in the next 25 years”; the head of the Iranian proxy Hizballah, Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, warned several months ago that Israel “will face a destiny and reality it didn’t expect” in the next war with Lebanon.

Israel’s Internal Security Minister Gilad Erdan has noted that Hizballah’s “arsenal of missiles and rockets has grown to 150,000.”

“Ten days ago, Iran’s Revolutionary Guards unveiled a new ballistic missile with a range of 1,000 kilometers.”

Still, Iran deceives its sympathizers as part of its propaganda war, in keeping with the Islamic dictum “war is deceit.” It tells the world that it seeks only self-protection and a “defensive war” against “Zionist” enemies that threaten Iran; the truth is that Iran has long aimed to obliterate Israel (often referred to by Iranian officials as the “Little Satan”) in an offensive war, and even to destroy America (referred to the “Great Satan”) in its doomsday bid to revive the Persian Empire.

The world owes much thanks to Barack Hussein Obama for appeasing Iran while it bought time to build up its weaponry.

“Iran says it has launched ‘cruise missile capable’ submarine,” Times of Israel, February 17, 2019:

TEHRAN — Iran on Sunday launched a new, locally-built submarine capable of firing cruise missiles, state TV said, in the country’s latest show of military might at a time of heightened tensions with the US.

The launch ceremony, led by President Hassan Rouhani, took place in the southern port city of Bandar Abbas.

“Today, the Islamic Republic of Iran is fully self-reliant on land, air and sea,” Rouhani said. “Our defensive power is meant to defend our interests and we have never sought to attack any country.”

Named the Fateh (Farsi for “Conqueror”), the new submarine is Iran’s first in the semi-heavy category, the Fars news agency said, and it fills a gap between the light Ghadir class and the heavy, Russian-made Kilo class submarines that the country possesses.

Fars said the near 600-ton underwater vessel is equipped with torpedoes and naval mines, in addition to cruise missiles, and can operate more than 200 meters below sea level for up to 35 days.

The US withdrew from a 2015 multilateral nuclear deal with Iran in May 2018 and re-imposed biting unilateral sanctions later last year.

Ten days ago, Iran’s Revolutionary Guards unveiled a new ballistic missile with a range of 1,000 kilometers (620 miles), the elite unit’s official media agency Sepah News, said.

The surface-to-surface missile — called Dezful — is an upgrade on the older Zolfaghar model that had a range of 700 kilometers, aerospace commander Brigadier General Amirali Hajizadeh said.

Rouhani said at the launch that “pressure by enemies, the (Iran-Iraq) war and sanctions” were incentives for Tehran to be self-reliant in its defense industry…..

 

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  1. Buraq says

    Feb 20, 2019 at 3:09 pm

    Knowing Iran’s history of technical failures in testing and using poorly cloned weaponry, the mariners manning this submersible sieve had better take swimming lessons! Clowns!

    • christianblood says

      Feb 20, 2019 at 6:44 pm

      Iran servers the right to defend itself against US and its allies such as Saudi Arabia, Al-Qaeda, ISIS, UAE and other Sunni jihadists! Just last week US and Saudi-sponsored Pakistani suicide bombers murdered 27 Iranian border guards. More below:

      https://www.indiatoday.in/world/story/suicide-bomber-who-killed-27-members-of-iran-s-guards-was-pakistani-guards-commander-1460238-2019-02-20

      • mortimer says

        Feb 20, 2019 at 8:14 pm

        The BloodthirstyPseudochristian never met another genocidist he didn’t like. Birds of a feather. He has never denied his approval of genocide.

        • gravenimage says

          Feb 20, 2019 at 8:21 pm

          True, Mortimer–christianblood is a huge fan of the totalitarian Mullahs.

          And just because Muslims murder other Muslims–they do this all the time–doesn’t make Muslims any less of a threat to the rest of us.

        • christianblood says

          Feb 20, 2019 at 8:25 pm

          mortimer

          The only genocidal regimes I know of are the U$A, Saudi Arabia and their jihadist allies! Below are the list of countries that the U$ bombed and invaded with millions of casualties both wounded and dead! :

          China 1945-46

          Korea 1950-53

          China 1950-53

          Guatemala 1954

          Indonesia 1958

          Cuba 1959-60

          Guatemala 1960

          Belgian Congo 1964

          Guatemala 1964

          Dominican Republic 1965-66

          Peru 1965

          Laos 1964-73

          Vietnam 1961-73

          Cambodia 1969-70

          Guatemala 1967-69

          Lebanon 1982-84

          Grenada 1983-84

          Libya 1986

          El Salvador 1981-92

          Nicaragua 1981-90

          Iran 1987-88

          Libya 1989

          Panama 1989-90

          Iraq 1991

          Kuwait 1991

          Somalia 1992-94

          Bosnia 1995

          Iran 1998

          Sudan 1998

          Afghanistan 1998

          Yugoslavia – Serbia 1999

          Afghanistan 2001

          Libya 2011

          Syria 2013

        • christianblood says

          Feb 20, 2019 at 8:51 pm

          gravenimage posted

          (…christianblood is a huge fan of the totalitarian Mullahs…)

          No, I am no fan of the Iranian Mullahs, rather I am against the Al-Qaeda and ISIS-supporting US imperialists! The greatest danger to the World Peace is NOT Iran but U$A which is pushing regime-change imperialist wars all over the place and sanctioning those who dare to express their own independent policies like Iran, Venezuela, Nicaragua, Cuba, Syria,
          China and Russia! US is threatening regime-change in Venezuela. US and its allies even hand-picked a new Venezuela ‘president’ known as Juan Guido! It is shocking to me that you don’t see or you rather ignore to see all the evil things and all the wars that your country, the U$A is doing all around the globe! What are you? Beasts?

          The Iranian Mullahs themselves came about as a result of US regime-change in Iran. The Iranian Mullahs were indeed made in America:

        • gravenimage says

          Feb 20, 2019 at 9:18 pm

          christianblood wrote:

          gravenimage posted

          (…christianblood is a huge fan of the totalitarian Mullahs…)

          No, I am no fan of the Iranian Mullahs,
          ……………………..

          Well, this is just ludicrous–christianblood shows up on every thread here about Iran spouting apologia for them–as he is doing here.

          He has said that everything that Iran does is good, because it opposes the values of the West.

          More:

          rather I am against the Al-Qaeda and ISIS-supporting US imperialists! The greatest danger to the World Peace is NOT Iran but U$A which is pushing regime-change imperialist wars all over the place and sanctioning those who dare to express their own independent policies like Iran, Venezuela, Nicaragua, Cuba, Syria,
          China and Russia!
          ……………………..

          christianblood has said this before–that if the US has defeated the Islamic State that they are somehow “pro-ISIS”.

          And he has condemned the US before for having defeated Fascism, and has lauded the horrors of North Korea, claiming that it is a better place than is democratic South Korea, and that we were wrong to have saved South Korea from the horrors of Communism.

          Note the nations he is championing here–Communist hell holes and Shari’ah states. His wanting to include Russia in such company is terribly damning.

          More:

          US is threatening regime-change in Venezuela. US and its allies even hand-picked a new Venezuela ‘president’ known as Juan Guido! It is shocking to me that you don’t see or you rather ignore to see all the evil things and all the wars that your country, the U$A is doing all around the globe! What are you? Beasts?
          ……………………..

          What tripe. There is no regime change in Venezuela–we have just criticized Maduro starving his people. The claim that our thinking this is a bad thing makes us “beasts” is *very* telling.

          Note that this is the second country that christianblood is applauding for starving its people–North Korea does the same.

          This is quite appalling–but no surprise.

          More:

          The Iranian Mullahs themselves came about as a result of US regime-change in Iran. The Iranian Mullahs were indeed made in America:
          ……………………..

          christianblood has said this before, as well–that Mullahs are fine, but it was America’s fault that they are in power because we didn’t invade and prop up the Shah.

          Not only is this absurd–we didn’t wage the Islamic revolution there, Muslims did–but if we *had* invaded, christianblood would have just had one more thing to condemn America for…

        • gravenimage says

          Feb 21, 2019 at 12:29 am

          Let’s parse a few of these, shall we?

          Korea 1950-53
          ……………………….

          This is where we saved South Korea from the horrors of Communism. If you want to see what South Korea would look like today without our help, just look at North Korea.

          More:

          Somalia 1992-94
          ……………………….

          We were trying to hold back the Jihadists enough so that food aid could reach the Somalians. Bad dhimmis!

          More:

          Afghanistan 2001
          ……………………….

          No doubt christianbllod *much* prefers the Taliban. And why not? He has already made it clear that he is fine with women being stoned to death in Iran–why not Afghanistan, as well?

        • christianblood says

          Feb 21, 2019 at 8:10 am

          gravenimage

          US demonizes Iran while it is now willing to transfer even nuclear technology to Saudi Arabia and tolerates its savagery, religious discrimination and worldwide financing of global jihadist ideology! Last year, under secretary, Stuart Jones, couldn’t answer the same question asked about Saudi Arabia’s human rights record. Watch him:

        • gravenimage says

          Feb 21, 2019 at 3:02 pm

          christianblood wrote:

          gravenimage

          US demonizes Iran while it is now willing to transfer even nuclear technology to Saudi Arabia and tolerates its savagery, religious discrimination and worldwide financing of global jihadist ideology! Last year, under secretary, Stuart Jones, couldn’t answer the same question asked about Saudi Arabia’s human rights record. Watch him:
          ……………………..

          Why does christianblood continue to pretend that if one opposes the horrors of Shari’ah in Iran that one ergo approves of similar horrors in Saudi Arabia?

          I never have, and christianblood of course knows this.

          I have said over and over again that Saudi Arabia is a vicious Islamic state and funder of Jihad terror, and is no ally of ours.

          And he keeps making the claim that the US is enabling a nuclear Saudi Arabia, just as Russia is enabling a nuclear Iran–but he has no facts to back up this claim. But when has this ever bothered christianblood before?

          And no–the US is not “demonizing” Iran. christianblood has never said what he considers good about a state that hangs gay people, screams “Death to Israel!” and “Death to America!”, and stoning women to death–except to laud them for not adhering to American values. He has never condemned such horrors, even when directly asked to do so.

          And note that he didn’t address a single point I made–because he cannot.

      • christianblood says

        Feb 20, 2019 at 8:21 pm

        Dr. Marcus Papadopoulos on Iran/US relations:

        • gravenimage says

          Feb 20, 2019 at 8:57 pm

          christianblood has said before that Iran hanging gay people, screaming “Death to Israel!” and “Death to America!”, and stoning women to death represents Iran’s “self respect” in opposing American values. *Ugh*.

          And who is Dr. Marcus Papadopoulos? He is a constant apologist for Islam. Here he is, claiming that Islam is a “peaceful religion” (he claims it is only Wahabbism that is a problem–note that he never says how Wahabbism is any different from orthodox Islam)–and that there should be no tolerance for any form of “Islamophobia”:

          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4StL0XXigc

          He claims that “Islamophobia” is due to “ignorance” of Islam–which is utterly false.

          Lots more apologia of Jihad and Shari’ah from him.

          This, of course, is what christianblood is pushing here.

        • christianblood says

          Feb 20, 2019 at 9:11 pm

          gravenimage

          Why are you ignoring all the EVIL, death, destruction, regime-change and wars that the U$ is causing all around the globe? Why are u so immoral and so wicked Graven?

        • gravenimage says

          Feb 20, 2019 at 9:22 pm

          I actually don’t consider having opposed Fascism and Communism to have been bad things. christianblood, however, regularly supports totalitarianism.

          And he has also claimed that I am wicked for not wanting to be raped and beheaded by Muslims, which he says is the “Truth of Christ”. *Very* disturbing.

    • mortimer says

      Feb 20, 2019 at 8:12 pm

      The submariners of that vessel are going into a sea-bound coffin.

  2. Down Under Observer says

    Feb 20, 2019 at 3:53 pm

    You could almost bet they launched a boat which is now submerged, so they retrospectively called it a submarine to save face. They are not renowned for their ship-building prowess.

    • Keys says

      Feb 20, 2019 at 4:00 pm

      They can buy expertise. As I recall the Germans, Russians, and North Koreans helped them build their underground compounds for their nuclear facilities among other things.

      • christianblood says

        Feb 20, 2019 at 6:49 pm

        Keys

        What about US aiding Saudi Arabia=ISIS develop nuclear bombs? Trump administration made secret nuclear deals with Saudi Arabia through Jared Kushner, Trump’s son in law. More of this below:

        https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-47296641

        • gravenimage says

          Feb 20, 2019 at 9:24 pm

          What claptrap. This is an accusation from the Democrats, with nothing to back it up.

        • christianblood says

          Feb 21, 2019 at 8:20 am

          gravenimage

          It is indeed very true. There is billions-of-dollar secret nuclear deal between Trump administration and Saudi Arabia mediated by Jared Kushner last year! Giving nukes to Saudi Arabia is equal to giving nukes to Al-Qaeda and ISIS but US is doing it anyway, probably for the money alone!

        • christianblood says

          Feb 21, 2019 at 8:25 am

          More on America’s transferring nuclear technology to Saudi Arabia by AP:

        • gravenimage says

          Feb 21, 2019 at 3:12 pm

          This comes from those who are working to impeach Donald Trump. None of it is backed up by evidence.

          Note that the AP story is talking about concerns over the misuse of nuclear power, and missing safeguards–a very serious concern, but one offering no proof of christianblood’s claim that the US is giving Saudi Arabia nuclear weapons.

          The only ones making this claim is PressTV, which is–surprise, surprise–Iran’s propaganda network.

        • christianblood says

          Feb 21, 2019 at 7:10 pm

          gravenimage

          The news that there is a secret nuclear deal between the Trump administration and Saudi Arabia is all over the place! Look it up!

        • gravenimage says

          Feb 21, 2019 at 9:14 pm

          The deal to build nuclear power plants in Saudi Arabia is not a secret, as christianblood pretends. I consider it terribly unwise–I would not trust the Saudis as far as I could throw them–but no one sane is claiming that the US is giving the Saudis a nuclear bomb.

  3. Ed Lee says

    Feb 20, 2019 at 3:54 pm

    In the past, Iran has prominently displayed its ignorance of U.S. military capabilities when making pronouncements like this. Here, they are revealing their ignorance of the fact that in a conflict with any nation, the U.S. P-3 Orion and P-8 Poseidon ASW (anti-submarine warfare) aircraft would destroy over 2/3 of all enemy submarines. U.S. surface ships and submarines will take out the rest.

  4. gravenimage says

    Feb 20, 2019 at 4:11 pm

    Iran warns America that it has “launched a new, locally-built submarine capable of firing cruise missiles”
    …………………

    More saber rattling…

  5. kenjames says

    Feb 20, 2019 at 4:44 pm

    Obama built that.

  6. GreekEmpress says

    Feb 20, 2019 at 6:06 pm

    +1

  7. Gene says

    Feb 20, 2019 at 9:06 pm

    Having a boat that sinks to the bottom of the ocean doesn’t make it a submarine.

    • Indiana Tom says

      Feb 21, 2019 at 5:47 am

      In their minds, it is a high tech sub.

  8. Bezelel says

    Feb 20, 2019 at 10:07 pm

    iiran launched a new White Elephant. Trying to keep up with the Jones”s while the population suffers from lack of necessities. Priority deficient idiot, a monkey with a handgrenade, A solution looking for a problem except he’s the problem. If iran dares to fire on his overpriced toys on the US he will assure his complete destruction. He’s definitely not thinking this thru.

  9. Indiana Tom says

    Feb 21, 2019 at 5:46 am

    They need to close the screen doors in the submarine before they take her down.

  10. FYI says

    Feb 21, 2019 at 12:09 pm

    That picture of Rouhani with the 2 fingers?

    It’s an improvement on the one finger Tawheed salute I guess.

    One more and maybe he’ll figure out the Trinity..

    “Yes Mr Rouhani:But its not 3 gods as your allah thinks:”Cease.say not “three” it is better for you”,still,you are getting close with 2……”

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