We Chinese believe that instead of hurting the enemy's ten fingers, it is better to chop off one of his fingers.
If you can sink one of the US supercarrier or at least disable it by destroying all the catapults on the flight deck, it gonna create a psychic shock to the symbolic might of the US military.
They will have to lose all the face, then retreat with extreme embarrassment.
That's how you can manage the post-war devastation.
I would say that to make the two US supercarriers with broken catapults would be better effect for Iran.