Maybe they used regional missiles to show they were “serious” for public consumption. I will wait to see what develops from here. If Scott Adams is right the Mullahs will celebrate their “revenge” and then just lie low.
“Maybe they used regional missiles ... “
Certainly a valid point :-) ... still, if they’re looking to keep their people, um, “happy” (i.e. pacified), a show of a massive amount of rockets being fired off would be all they need. They can make up whatever stories they want about their effect seeing that their media is pretty much like our mainstream media :-) .
Once you throw missiles into the mix, you are looking to do more substantive damage and your enemy isn’t going to not take notice.
I think the best strategy is to get the Iranians sick of this regime out into the streets and in a position to revolt. If we would have had a sane leader in 2009 (I think it was 2009), Iran might not be a problem today. However, it was pretty clear that our dear leader back then was more sympathetic to the “plight” of the Mullahs.
If the result of this skirmish is the decapitation of the Iranian power structure, Trump is going to look brilliant since Iranians will take charge and, more than likely, institute a pro-West government with no loss of American lives.
I’m just speculating/discussing of course. I am no expert on these matters.
BTW, thanks for all of your posts on FR over the years :-) ... I look forward to many more :-).