For years, Iran has avoided developing its own technology by simply copying the most successful weapons from other nations, and it recently put its eyes on one of the world’s most powerful tanks in order to bolster its defenses and deter the West from trying to influence the Islamic country.The Karr or Striker heavy tank is a highly modified Soviet-era T-7 tank that has been updated with state-of-the-art technology to perform at the same level as the Russian T-90. Iran claims that its so-called “domestically designed tank” is as powerful as any other main battle tank in the world, and they have built a massive manufacturing industry around it, having allegedly produced over 800 Karr tanks in an aggressive move that seeks to drastically increase their defense capabilities and their technological military prowess.Several military analysts doubt that the Karrar can perform similarly to the T-90 as the Iranian regime claims, but if only a fraction of what they promise is true, the Middle Eastern nation could grow to become one of the greatest threats to Western democracies…