THE LATEST | CANADAFinancial Times: After last year’s 12-day war with Israel — in which large barrages from Iran were heavily intercepted and launchers destroyed — Tehran has recalibrated its missile doctrine. In firing back at Israel, it has shifted from headline-grabbing salvos to a steadier campaign designed to stretch air defences.
At the same time it is using short-range missiles and drones for intensive attacks on US allies in the Gulf, targeting civilian infrastructure as well as American military bases. On both fronts, it is seeking to expend its least valuable munitions first, while depleting its adversaries’ interceptors and disrupting life across the region…