Financial Times: “They’d love to be able to take out a US capital asset, such as a base, a warship, a leadership figure. Something of an equal weight to the death of the Supreme Leader,” said John Raine, a former senior UK national security official who is now a senior adviser at the International Institute for Strategic Studies.
“From their doctrine they have invested heavily in asymmetric capabilities and overseas capabilities. But they will keep it in reserve,” said Raine. For Iranian leaders, he said, “revenge is as much a religious obligation as an emotional response”…