Iranian Animation Depicts Battle With U.S. Forces in Gulf
- General Soleimani commands troops in the fictional fighting
- Movie released amid rising tension between Iran, U.S.
A production team member of the animated film 'Battle of the Persian Gulf II' holds the movie's poster, in Tehran.
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Movie theaters in Tehran started showing a feature-length animation depicting a battle between Iranian and U.S. forces in the Persian Gulf amid rising tensions between the two longtime foes.
The “Battle of the Persian Gulf II” imagines Iran’s response to a U.S. attack, director Farhad Azima said by phone on Monday. The 88-minute animation, which was first screened two weeks ago in the holy city of Mashhad, shows the wide range of “Iran’s weaponry and military tactics” to “act as a deterrent,” he said. The animation took more than four years to make and cost 10 billion rials ($308,000), according to Azima.