1. Iran's ambitions are regional, not global.
2. The geopolitical and economic cost of nuclear weapons is too high for Iran.
3. Your points about "critical mass" with regard to technological development are in parts moot, in others inconsistent with reality.
Iranian journos and their famously catastrophic translations.
They probably meant "aircraft carrying" as it can accommodate helicopters and drones.
As I have said on twitter, this ship is of limited utility. No doubt the IRGC intends to use it as a power projection tool abroad. But in my...
My Twitter and blog is somewhat of an anomaly for the English-language Iranian military sphere. Hence the DefenceHub team kindly granted it to me as they did to Oryx and Hakan Kiliç.
The economic sanctions are put in place by the Americans, not the Europeans (at least not to the extent that it...
It's so they don't get the Europeans flustered for no reason - which seems to have largely worked. Khorramshahr has a 1800kg warhead to keep its range within 2000km. With a "normal" sized <ton warhead it could easily hit central and maybe western Europe.
Hi! Well, I don't like putting it out there and "blank" wasn't an option :)
Hi Cabatli, good to see you here. I'll do my best, very busy nowadays though...