Imagine if Iran used that weapon, what 24 ballistic missiles carrying 5+ warheads each with more yield than Nagasaki or Hiroshima are used to return fire. Imagine Iran turning to glass. Collateral damage? Of course, it’s the mutual destruction rules. We did the Cold War with it. Russians aren’t suicidal. Iran not so much. By the way that’s payload of one boat.
The IRGC doesn’t care. They believe if they make the earth uninhabitable the 13th Imam will save them. They completely believe this.
They are not people you can bargain with on the basis that threatening their lives inhibits them. They’ve love to be turned into white shadows, because they would die as martyrs and go to heaven.
It is the powerless 90 million Iranians that don’t want to die like that,but they have no choice.