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Continuing this week's theme of the proclamations of the Iranian military that they will soon show the US their might, both in the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Mexico --- and of the international media's willingness to spread the message --- we offer this episode where the chest-thumping propaganda did not quite go as planned....
This photo, taken by Ebrahim Norouzi for AFP and Getty, was initially used by CNN to illustrate its story yesterday, "Iran Planning to Send Ships Near US Waters". You could quibble, however, that this is a bit of distortion by CNN: the picture is not from 2011 but from February 2009, when Tehran launched the 'Jamaran', Iran's first domestically-built warship.
But there may be a bigger reason why the photograph soon disappeared from the story, replaced by the hyperbolic video below: can you, dear reader, spot the comedy glitch in the picture? (Answer later in the day.)