Grenade-carrying chipmunks.
Mortar-carrying pumas.
Sword-wielding llamas.
Sharks with frickin' lasers on their heads.
When did Iran become the home nation of Dr. Evil.
Posted on 05/01/2026 7:15:09 AM PDT by thegagline
Iran is considering using dolphins armed with mines to blow open the Strait of Hormuz, which has been under a financially crippling US military blockade for weeks, according to a report.
While the tense extended cease-fire with the US holds, a growing number of Iranian hardliners believe that the financial crisis sparked by the US blocking Iran’s oil exports amounts to an act of war and have called for resuming military action.
That military action could include unleashing previously unused weapons to attack US warships deployed in the region — including mine-carrying dolphins, according to Iranian officials, the Wall Street Journal reported.
Tehran could also send submarines into the waterway, according to the WSJ, and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard has already threatened to cut key phone cables running through the strait, which could wreak havoc on global internet communications to escalate tensions further.
“The blockade is increasingly viewed in Tehran not as a substitute for war, but as a different manifestation of it,” Hamidreza Azizi, a visiting fellow specializing in the Middle East at SWP, a Berlin-based research institute, told WSJ.
“As a result, Iranian decision makers may soon come to see renewed conflict as less costly than continuing to endure a prolonged blockade.”
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Leftists will struggle mightily when having to choose between dolphins and terrorists, but I think they’ll ultimately side with terrorists.
They call him Flipper, Flipper…
Stop screwing with these fools and finish it before they do real damage
Oh no, the Flipper attack.
Oh. Ya. Iran is winning this thing
Dolphins.
This should get PETA and hard-core animal rights activists involved in the war.
Those intelligent dolphins have larger brains than ours, don’t you know...
Can sharks with laser beams be far behind?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_marine_mammal
After the fall of the Soviet Union, the Soviet military dolphin program was passed to the Ukrainian Navy. In March 2000 the BBC reported that the Ukrainian navy had transferred their military dolphin project from Sevastopol to Iran. Iran bought the animals, and the chief trainer carried on his research at Iran’s new oceanarium.[4]
In 2012, Ukraine allegedly “resurrected” the military dolphin program.[2] After the 2014 annexation of Crimea, the Ukrainian dolphin program was taken over by Russia.[5] Conflicting statements have been made regarding the fate of the dolphins. One claim is that the program had been demilitarized prior to the annexation, with all military dolphins either sold commercially or dead by natural causes. A counter-claim suggests that dolphins died patriotically after going on hunger strikes and resisting their Russian captors.[6] Russia reportedly intended to use advanced technology to visualise the dolphin’s biosonar signals in future military dolphin research.[2]
Faster than lighting
There’s that.
Great... that’s worth another 25 cents at the pump and somehow, counterintuitively, with no linkage at all, it will also make the price of tuna from western pacific fisheries go up.
Ric O’Barry, a former U.S. Navy and civilian trainer of marine mammals, writes that the dolphins complied with their training program only to obtain food. Once they became full, they would no longer be obedient. To prevent this and potential escapes, the navy installed anti-foraging devices that prevented dolphins from fully opening their mouth to feed in the oceans. He also believes that deploying dolphins during war would cause the enemy to attack all dolphins that it comes across, because there is no way to tell a friendly dolphin from a hostile one.[23]
And there’s this… No one, you see, is smarter than he
Grenade-carrying chipmunks.
Mortar-carrying pumas.
Sword-wielding llamas.
Sharks with frickin' lasers on their heads.
When did Iran become the home nation of Dr. Evil.
DC will decide we need weaponized hunter-killer barracudas now....
The insanity never ends.
USN trained all the dolphins.
As soon as Iranians arm them with mines to attach to hulls, the dolphins will circle back and sink Iranian ships.
Are we tired of winning yet?
It's like how the russians with their donkeys were going to roll over Europe last year.
Someone’s been watching too many George C Scott movies!
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