Forget About Everything Else...

[Rajvik]

Gloating about it though... well. That's a good way to invite escalation. Especially when you do it in public, or on international television

Moot point when they are going to do it anyway. Seriously, understand their culture and you can see it. Persians, (which the Irainians are culturally) have for the last 3000 years absolutely had to be the biggest baddest assholes on the block or else have required being beaten down by a regime that was. Honestly Americans and them are not all that different in that aspect, the difference being that Americans recognize, because of history, that ultimately there will be someone out there that can do it, even if it takes a coalition of multiple people to do so. Until then we are the proverbial 800 kilo gorilla who will knock some sense into you when we feel like it. Iran doesn't have that sense of self preservation and thus requires having it beat into them every now and again. The last time it happened was actually the British who did it in the wake of WWI when they were dividing up the Ottoman Empire, if a British patrol came under attack the RAF would flatten the nearest village, and thus the local chieftains would sit on their hotheads whenever a British patrol would go through.

Iraqi's initially learned the same lesson about US Marines in a quicker, quieter and cleaner way, but the message was the same, if you wanted to keep breathing, you didn't fuck with the brown boots, Quite frankly its been past time Iran learned the same damn message.