Iran Vs West: The war is already announced, at least virtually

Jayanta BhattacharyaFeb 23 2006

Iran Nuclear Facilities

The war over Iran's nuclear ambitions is already on with a videogame, Assault on Iran being developed where the objective was to spy on Iranian nuclear facilities and then subvert them.

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Now as a tit-for-tat retaliation comes from an Iranian organization affiliated to the Islamic High School Society has created a computer game which is about catching nuclear spies and saving the country.

The game shows a number of foreign agents coming to Iran to spy on the country's nuclear activities who are discovered by Iranian agents who then chase the spies to eliminate them. The objective is realized when the gamer succeeds in saving Iran's nuclear projects.

The game is slated to hit the market in coming April.

Now do we see similar games being developed by countries hostile to each other? Korea, US, China, Japan, India, Pakistan? If so, let the frustration ease up through virtual wars in videogames than the real stuff. Iraq shows it would have been better if the war took over cyberspace. A hundred thousand lives would have been saved.

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