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Are you serious? This thing would be nothing but a metal coffin in a battle. It would not last 2 minutes. Warships are made to be able to sustain damage and still function. This is like strapping a mortar on a Kia and calling it a tank.
No. It's a launching platform at sea for their limited weaponry and reconnaissance. It's cost effective, and there's absolutely no reason to think Iran would, nor should, be willing to build a 21st century navy to compete with ours. That would be ridiculous. The observation you make about the military disparity is no different than the same one that could be made between the US navy and 40 or 50 other nation's navies. None of them would last 2 days. The bottom line is, Iran has every right to patrol and defend its territorial waters in whatever way it sees fit. Retrofitting a freighter to project arial reconnaissance at sea is a viable tactic in any country's defense. I suspect our own navy takes it more seriously than you do.