Iranian ship wins award for not being actively on fire
TEHRAN — Iran’s Supreme Leader is calling a ship’s crew “heroes of fighting the Great Satan” for being one of the rare crews in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy to successfully avoid accidentally catching fire.
After seven IRGCN ships caught fire in the port of Bushehr on July 15, Iran quickly called the disaster “American sabotage.” The IRGCN subsequently awarded the crew the Corvette Bayandor the Order of Nasr for being hundreds of miles away at another port.
“In this deadly attack by the American aggressor,” IRGCN Commander Admiral Alireza Tangsiri said, “these sailors were the bravest of the brave.”
“By being in dry dock.”
In recent months, Iran has suffered multiple fires or explosions at locations such as fuel tanks near Kermanshah, the Natanz centrifuge production plant, a power plant near Isfahan, and at the Parchin nuclear weapons center.
This leads some Western naval experts to support the award. Dr. Sarah Jennings of the Center for Naval Analyses said, “With Iran’s rec…
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