Iran - Israel/US War: Israel-US declare war on Iran, Iran responds

[Ali_Baba]

If IRGC wanted to hit a USN ship probably they would.

I honestly don't think they can. Period. Yemen could not, and they really really really tried. The systems are technically not good enough.

But, the real question is, why even bother firing missiles if you do not intending on hitting, and in return getting damage to your own tanker fleet like this ?

 

[Immortals]

I honestly don't think they can. Period. Yemen could not, and they really really really tried. The systems are technically not good enough.

But, the real question is, why even bother firing missiles if you do not intending on hitting, and in return getting damage to your own tanker fleet like this ?

I think they could. If they couldn’t then US navy ships would be in SoH sailing back and forth.

The issue is what would be the benefit? Creating a mass casualty naval event would not lead to an agreement. It would not lead to closure of SoH. It has many unknowns and Iran is afraid of escalation.

Thus if you are afraid of escalation of military casualties, you must go with economic escalation.

There are 10-15 ships doing STS transfers off the coast of UAE/Oman, how come Iran hasn’t attacked these vulnerable and defenseless ships? Why not attack the storage tanks that hold the fuel that is boarded on to the tankers? There is the UAE pipeline that is ferrying 2MBPD sitting out in the open and vulnerable. Why hasn’t that been attacked?

There are plenty of non military targets that can increase Iranian leverage, but it chooses not to go after them. The fact of matter is Iran is back in ‘strategic patience’ mode. While they may occasionally lash out with some symbolic attacks, do some military damage here or there, it is quite clear that Mojtaba is not a military leader or an aggressive fighter. He is following his father’s disastrous foreign policy.

 

[Immortals]

You can see Iran isn’t serious about fighting a war. When your opponent can fly big defenseless airforce tankers 50KM off your shoreline, then it shows that you are not fighting a war. Do you think Ukraine would allow Russia to do this?

It’s clear there is some unwritten rules to this current stage of conflict. Iran isn’t trying to push the U.S. out of the SoH or PG, it’s merely trying to do tit for tat attacks while hoping the energy crisis intensifies.

 

[KAL-EL]

If IRGC wanted to hit a USN ship probably they would.
They just launch some missiles against them. But a saturation attack will deffinitively hit with them.
Remember a DDG just carry some ESSM missiles and when finished those or just diminish their number, the probabilities of hitting them exponentially increase.
Just launch 3 missiles daily until they exhaust their ESSM in their VLS...

Yes, keep firing on USN ships. Absolutely nothing will happen in return.

 

[GWXP]

In response to US striking 3 Iranian oil tankers, Iran should strike Kuwait's or Bahrain's oil infrastructure.

Iran should impose costs on US by striking regional oil production.

 

[Shags101]

Arabs attacking Israel? Good Joke.
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Iiraqis Lebanese Palestinians and Yemenis all Arabs but I get what you mean Arab states lead by corrupt leaders who fear their hold on power would disappear the next day

 

[Shags101]

Yes, keep firing on USN ships. Absolutely nothing will happen in return.

…….well to be fair itt is in self defense and we both know how you feel and I feel and multiple other people feel about this war being unnecessary but I can’t deny the Iranians have the right to self defense either

 

[KAL-EL]

…….well to be fair itt is in self defense and we both know how you feel and I feel and multiple other people feel about this war being unnecessary but I can’t deny the Iranians have the right to self defense either

Well sure, they do have a right to self-defense. But a serious escalation will be met with another series escalation