The war of words gets turned up a notch.
America is a disloyal, atrocious, criminal, isolated, angry enemy with disloyal, corrupt leaders whose salaries are paid by the Zionists and the MKO [People's Mujahedin of Iran] terrorist group," Bagheri said, according to the official
Iranian National News Agency. "This is while, Iran as a big nation, is faithful to its promises and remains committed to the international laws," adding that, "Today Iran has reached its peak of power" and would not wait for permission to pursue its domestic and regional interests.
It's rather easy to talk smack when you aren't in any danger of being attacked. What will be interesting to see, over the waters of the Persian Gulf, is whether or not the Iranian aircraft will try to play tag with American aircraft on patrol the way that the Russians do.
Was interested to see
another aerospace related story, about a missile test facility that was news to some people, in the Iranian desert.