Counter Strike

[KashifAsrar]

COUNTER STRIKE

Iran game tackles ‘enemy’ US



Tehran: A new Iranian computer game sets players the task of blowing up a US tanker in the Gulf to block the sea route for much of the world’s oil supplies, a newspaper reported on Saturday.
The game, ‘Counter Strike’, invites players to plant two bombs on the oil tanker to sink it and make the strait of Hormuz impassable, the Jomhouri-ye Eslami daily reported. About two-fifths of globally traded oil passes through the channel.
The game illustrates a warning by Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who said in June that oil exports in the Gulf region could be seriously endangered if the United States made a wrong move on Iran.
“In the new computer game ... the ways of shutting down the Hormuz strait through exploding a ship will be shown to the users,” the paper quoted a statement issued by the game’s state-funded producers as saying.
The cyberspace and computer games markets have witnessed sabre-rattling before between Iran and the US. Games have involved special forces of each side blasting their enemies’ facilities and foiling plots hatched by the adversary. REUTERS