Exact same comment I made on another thread.
And it's the standard Arab trick: "don't talk to me, it's those other guys." Then they all go sip sweet tea together and snicker and snicker about how the dumb infidels fell for it.
Maybe it's time for us to clandestinely fund a matching group that just happens to have its own air force, navy, and army. Every time something like this happens, they could respond with force while, at the same time, the US could say, 'gosh we just don't have any control over those guys, sorry 'bout your city'.
I have a feeling that if the Brits respond firmly, a whole new 'line of communication with the guards' will suddenly be discovered by the Iranian government.
In a way, the west brought this on by letting them get away with hiding behind the Hezzies in Lebanon. They've apparently decided this whole 'acting through proxies' thing is cool.
We already do. It's called Israel.