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By\u00a0Amir Taghati<\/p>\n
Earlier this week, Iranian regime unveiled what it described as its first ever domestic fighter jet. Regime\u2019s president Hassan Rouhani said that one of the main goals is to deter the United States.<\/p>\n
Rouhani attended the \u201cNational Defence Industry\u201d show in the country\u2019s capital Tehran. He was filmed posing in the cockpit of the jet. State media outlets said that the jet has a multi-purpose radar and boasted that it has \u201cadvanced avionics\u201d. Speaking about its use for deterrent purposes, Rouhani said: \u201cThe enemy should see how expensive an invasion of Iran would be. Why does not the US wage a military attack on us? Because of our power.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Iranian state media outlet also said that the \u201cKowsar\u201d \u2013 a river in paradise in the Islamic faith and the title of one of the Koran\u2019s chapter\u2019s \u2013 is a fourth-generation fighter jet. The regime is also claiming that it is \u201c100 per cent indigenously made\u201d.<\/p>\n
Tamsin news Agency said in a message on Twitter that the country\u2019s \u201cfirst state-of-the-art\u201d fighter jet was \u201cdesigned and manufactured by domestic military experts\u201d.
Iranian Regime has a history of boasting about its military capabilities, but experts have refuted Iran\u2019s actual capability as over-inflated and false. For example, in 2013, regime unveiled a supposedly new and Iranian built fighter jet \u2013 the Qaher 313. Many experts at the time said that Iran was exaggerating its capabilities and said that it was simply not viable.<\/p>\n
The country\u2019s air force is very limited and it is believed that there are as little as ten or so strike aircrafts. Most of these are either old US or Russian models that were acquired decades ago.<\/p>\n
Iran feels the need to boast about its military power in the hope that other countries will believe that it actually has strength. It is doing this because it is in an extreme position of weakness as it faces pressure from the international community as well as its own people.<\/p>\n
US President Donald Trump recently claimed that he would be willing to meet with the Iranian President to discuss how to move forward. As it stands, Iran is becoming more and more isolated in the world, especially now that US economic sanctions are imposing harsh restrictions on trade with Iran. Many countries do not want to risk getting caught in the crosshairs of US sanctions and have simply pulled out of all business dealings with Iran.<\/p>\n
The domestic pressure is also peaking. The people of Iran are continuing to take to the streets to protest against the corrupt leadership that is destroying the country.<\/p>\n
Regime\u2019s Defence Minister Amir Hatami publicly announced the new fighter jet last Saturday during a televised interview. He said that the country\u2019s defence program bears in mind the missile attacks that Iran was hit with during the war with Iraq. He also said that it has taken into account the threats from the US that no options have been ruled out with regards to dealing with Iran. However, he did not give any specifics about the program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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