Its all Psyops! We've seen everything from: Putin making requests to Iran getting cold feet, to secret American meetings...reminds me of the scene in movies when the machine is about to shut down it is short circuiting...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s93KC4AGKnY
They don’t operate with free hand in Iran they hand deliver US passports for you and the family and one way first class tickets to any one in the IRGC willing to take the chance, plus a few millions put in your new bank accounts in the US and a free house thrown in as a bonus.
I believe the Iranians would learn a lot by associating closely with Russian counterintelligence services.
In a classroom there was always a bully. The bully always had bunch of lapdogs that watched his interests acting as his arms, eyes and ears against independent and non-aligned classmates and obeyed him on every occasion and helped him to keep his dominance in the classroom.
The scale of the attack was also much smaller.
we have good understandings with the Americans, Israel is unpredictable.
Iran clearly does not want to be the one to provoke a war in the ME. With this passive stance, Iran wants to demonstrate to the region that it is willing to act against Israel without being a destabilizer of the region, which contradicts all of Israel's rhetoric that Iran is the biggest provocateur in the ME. This OIC approach, issuing an Article 51 statement of the UN, calling the UN secretary-general, and so on, makes sense. If you consider the difference in stance, Iran is more willing to show that it is more diplomatic than Israel. That's the way I see it.
We must remember what Mr Trump said about that response after Soleimani killing.
US is confident they can stop larger scale operation, why so, number of Navy ships? They're probably prepared to intercept up to 500 drones and ballistic missiles. The fact that US has to deploy massive naval assets as well as missile batteries in Jordan and elsewhere, shows Israel does not have capacity to intercept 500 fast moving (cruise and ballistic missiles) and low moving ( drone) projectiles. Or they barely can and will be exposed after that.
