Iran Threatens the U.S. with "Consequences" for Israel Support

“Neither Washington nor Tehran wants the conflict in the Gaza Strip to trigger a wider war in the region, officials in both capitals say.”

pretty much this. Which is why I suspect Iran isn’t going to do anything.

 

The US has been tolerating attacks on its interests, with tit for tat responses.

The goal is to weaken US support for Israel

For example, recently:

Missiles fired from Yemen toward US warship that responded to attack on commercial tanker | CNN Politics


Two ballistic missiles were fired from Houthi rebel-controlled Yemen toward a US warship in the Gulf of Aden, after the US Navy responded to a distress call from a commercial tanker that had been seized by armed individuals, the US military said Sunday.

The incident comes after Iran-backed Houthi forces launched numerous attacks against US interests in the region, and Israel, since the October 7 Hamas attacks, as fears continue to ripple across the region that the Israel-Hamas war could widen.

 

Right. And we are funding IDF. I don’t think it will progress beyond that (hopefully).

 

Iran can FAFO. We sunk half their Navy in 8 hours.

 

It is past time to sink the rest of it while simultaneously striking and destroying every military installation that we have the location of, which would be most. The world will be a much better place immediately

 

Probably wouldn't make much difference. Don't think Iran's overall military strategy includes having a strong navy. They are more of a "let's send out a hundred Zodiacs with bombs strapped to them".
They are more than happy to do the proxy war thing with sending weapons to others.

 

That would be their asymmetrical strategy for mitigating the threat we present, yes. But the reason they still need that navy is that their desired end state is to be regional hegemon over the Gulf states, what they perceive as Iran’s natural place among its neighbors. Losing their fleet would hurt their prestige, and they know it, which is why they try to keep their conflict with us below a boiling point.

 

But Iran can say it has a right to defend itself by arming its proxies, just like we can say it lol. And of course we have armed and still arm non-state actors too, so ...

 

So because the other gulf states don't have robust navies, they want to keep theirs intact as much as possible? Kinda like the tallest midget.

 

It’s a longer view than that, but, yeah, that’s a rough sense of the matter.

 

This, plus I had included the destruction of all known military installations to reduce their ability to provide for their proxy wars. They would have to use their money rebuilding their own rather than providing it to the rest of the trash over there

 

Lol... love it when we get militarily "proportional" against enemy countries like Iran.

 

Sounds strangely familiar with China's claim about the waters around...everywhere. Shocker.

 

Underestimate Iran At Your Peril

The U.S. Lost a (Fictional) War With Iran 18 Years Ago

 

not disagreeing. Just noting that they have a lot more than wooden aircraft carrier models to support their claims.

 

per Al Capone: “You can get further with a kind word and a gun, than you can with just a kind word.”