Watch How Iran is Now Dominating the Strait of Hormuz

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The volunteers wave Islamic Republic flags as they head toward the Strait of Hormuz in small civilian-style craft, an extraordinary spectacle for a government that spent decades portraying itself as a dominant naval power.

But this is largely propaganda theater.

Nobody seriously expects fishermen and Basij volunteers in basic motorboats to confront U.S. military vessels and warships. The exercise is designed to manufacture an image of mass mobilization and defiance for domestic consumption.

Instead, the spectacle accomplishes the exact opposite. Trump has said Iran has no navy anymore, and footage of flag-waving volunteers being sent out in fishing boats and cheap speedboats reinforces just how badly the Islamic Republic’s conventional naval power has deteriorated.

For a regime that spent decades boasting about dominating the Persian Gulf and confronting the U.S. Navy, its own propaganda has become an advertisement for its weakness.

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