If that is the case,
...and those five small boats are not full of holes on the bottom of the sea...
...then I would have to concur with the judgement of the NY Post:
Iran: 1
US: 0
Next time, they should put them all on the sea floor.
Keep their eyes open for an ambush. The Iranians might have had 1000 rockets ready to be launched at one juicy target simultaneously. Maybe not even one of the ships involved in this feign. Maybe an aircraft carrier located someplace else.
This may have been a diversionary feign to attract fire at four dispensible targets and give them the pretext to try sink an aircraft carrier a hundred miles away.
It is necessary to understand other things along with the immediate event. Mars will not be in prograde until 1 Feb.
Well, you really should be keeping score from 1979, the beginning, when after Jimmy PeanutSeed, pusillanimously allowed the loss of Iran as one of the the greatest geo- political disasters for the US including Cuba, where the score is more like;
Iran-54
US-0