{"id":208674,"date":"2020-06-12T07:38:23","date_gmt":"2020-06-12T07:38:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=208674"},"modified":"2020-06-15T06:37:08","modified_gmt":"2020-06-15T06:37:08","slug":"report-iran-builds-fake-aircraft-carrier-for-drills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=208674","title":{"rendered":"Report: Iran builds fake aircraft carrier for drills"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Al-Monitor \u2013 June 9, 2020<\/strong><\/h1>\n<div id=\"attachment_208675\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/fake-US-carrier.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-208675\" class=\"wp-image-208675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/fake-US-carrier-768x432.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"304\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/fake-US-carrier-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/fake-US-carrier-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/fake-US-carrier.png 870w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-208675\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A satellite image of the mock aircraft carrier. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Iran has built a fake<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>\u00a0<a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/8c0447c55b9db116e9472d1714597f4b\">aircraft carrier<\/a><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0that resembles a US one for naval drills,\u00a0The Associated Press reports.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Satellite photographs obtained by the AP show a structure that looks similar to US Navy carriers that sail through the strategic Strait of Hormuz between Iran and the Arabian Peninsula. Iranian officials have not commented on the mock-up, which also carries replicas of\u00a0fighter jets on its deck,\u00a0the news agency said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The development\u00a0comes amid continued tensions between the United States\u00a0and Iran in the<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.al-monitor.com\/pulse\/originals\/2020\/05\/us-military-offers-condolences-iranian-navy-friendly-fire.html\"> Persian Gulf<\/a><\/strong><\/span> and around the world this year.\u00a0<a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.al-monitor.com\/pulse\/originals\/2020\/04\/iran-persian-gulf-not-new-york-gulf-us.html\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>In April<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, the US military <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/news.usni.org\/2020\/04\/15\/video-iranian-attack-boats-harass-u-s-navy-coast-guard-vessels-in-persian-gulf\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>released video<\/strong><\/span><\/a> showing\u00a0Iranian speedboats maneuvering dangerously close to US ships\u00a0in the Gulf. US President Donald Trump then threatened to destroy any Iranian vessels harassing the US Navy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Iran also continues to send fuel tankers and <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.al-monitor.com\/pulse\/originals\/2020\/06\/flight-iran-venezuela.html\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>aid flights<\/strong><\/span><\/a> to Venezuela\u00a0despite vocal US efforts to stop them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Iran also said today that it will <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-iran-usa-execution\/iran-says-it-will-execute-man-convicted-of-spying-on-soleimani-for-cia-idUSKBN23G0SL\">execute a man<\/a><\/strong><\/span>,\u00a0Mahmoud Mousavi Majd, accused of spying for the United States and Israel against\u00a0Iranian military commander Qasem Soleimani, whom the United States\u00a0killed via airstrike in Iraq in January.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The fake ship was in the Iranian port city of Bandar Abbas. Iranian forces destroyed a similar replica in 2015, the AP said.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_96078\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-96078\" class=\"wp-image-96078\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Iranian-carrier.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"405\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-96078\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A 2014 photo of a mock U.S.S. Nimitz featuring fake F\/A-18 Hornets. The mock carrier was used in naval drills. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.al-monitor.com\/pulse\/originals\/2020\/06\/iran-builds-aircraft-carrier-mock-drills-us-persian-gulf.html\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran has reportedly built a replica of a U.S. aircraft carrier, complete with dummy aircraft on its deck, to practise naval drills <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Iran"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=208674"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":208677,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208674\/revisions\/208677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=208674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=208674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=208674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}