[txrangerette]

For real attack? Or could the Iranians themselves be doing it to pretend they are being attacked?

[Cage Rattler]

cnbc reporting missile was fired at iran

[livius]

Or could the Iranians themselves be doing it to pretend they are being attacked?

That wouldn't surprise me. The mullahs' "cry for sympathy" from a population that hates them.

[Steel Wolf]

Or could the Iranians themselves be doing it to pretend they are being attacked?

What would be the point? If the pretend that we attacked them, they'd have to respond. If not, and we 'got away with it', then it would show that when the time comes, we really could get away with it.

The sympathy ploy isn't going to work in this case. It would just make them look cynical and crazy.