[Polybius]

Do these guys have no idea what our military is capable of??

Yes, the Iranians know what out military is capable of.

The Iranian bluster is for the benefit of the liberal news media who are their anti-American propaganda allies and their Sheeple readers who do not know.

Operation Praying Mantis

Iranian frigate IS SAHAND (74) burns after being attacked by aircraft of Carrier Air Wing II from USS ENTERPRISE (CVN-65) on 18 April 1988

[John123]

One group, consisting of the destroyers USS Merrill (DD 976) and USS Lynde McCormick (DDG 8), plus the amphibious transport dock USS Trenton (LPD-14), neutralized the Sassan oil platform. The Iranian personnel on the platform were given the opportunity to abandon it for a tugboat waiting alongside, but instead chose to open fire on Merrill, whose 5 inch, 54 caliber guns quickly dispatched the smaller, platform-mounted Iranian gun. Immediately afterward, U.S. Marines from Marine Air-Ground Task Force (MAGTF) 2-88 fast-roped onto the Sassan platform, gathered intelligence, and set explosives to render it unusable.

Big mistake.