Yup, enabling the hunter/killers to do their thing, provided they are thinking that far ahead.
If nothing else, he’s serving as a public diversion, while others do more quiet, secret work.
If nothing else, he is keeping the torch of the freedom fight lit for one more day, wearing out the mullahs, refusing to heed their call to go home.
A lot of dogs died in the game of “bear baiting.” But to doubt their courage? Never. Would it be my tactic? No, but I”m not a disarmed slave fighting for my first breath of freedom.