Iranian PC game has players blowing up US tanker

Tensions between the US and Iran have been growing in recent years, and they're spilling over into the world of games. In May it was reported that an Iranian student-made game under development had players rescuing an Iranian nuclear scientist from US forces. The next month, US-based Kuma Reality Games announced Assault on Iran, Pt. 3: Payback in Iraq, a follow-up of sorts in which it was stated that the fictional scientist had defected.

Now the Iranian development community appears to be firing back with another game. A Reuters article citing the daily paper Jomhouri-ye Eslami is reporting that a new Iranian PC game requires players to blow up a US tanker in the Persian Gulf, blocking the sea route for a substantial portion of the world's oil supplies.

The game was developed by a team of eight over three months, and its release was reportedly timed to coincide with commemorations of the Iran-Iraq War, which started September 22, 1980, and continued throughout the decade.