Iran said it would focus on taking out electricity generating plants in the Gulf – which coincidentally supply power to turn sea water into fresh.
“We are determined to respond to any threat at the same level as it creates in terms of deterrence...
They forgot the lessons of recent history – that a threat from a superpower is far more effective than the exercise of that power.
The limits of American-led military operations when it comes to achieving political ends were bitterly exposed with the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003.
Gulf countries have seen this behaviour and been dragged into the war with Iran by hosting US bases.
They believe that Iran must remain a conservative theocracy to create the conditions for the Mahdi to reveal himself.
Iran appears to have allowed some Indian and Pakistani oil tankers through the Strait of Hormuz. »