kwaigonegin
Colonel
I'll have to agree to disagree. I think a surgical strike with minimal colleteral damage will elicit a far less emotional response and anger than a giant crater from a couple of JDAMs from IDF F35s in the middle of Tehran with a bunch of dead Iranian citizens.I don’t think it matters. Everyone has forgotten or didn’t even realize what also happened on that day. The Iranian President was inaugurated on the same day of the assassination. Hours after he was inaugurated.
Imagine if Iran assassinated an Israeli official in DC during the same day as Trump/Harris inauguration day. The assassination is already extremely provocative regardless if a manned aircraft entered or not. Iran will be forced to response in some way.
Had the latter happened, for sure that would've caused a massive Iranian retaliation and most likely caused a regional war. That may also draw Turkey into it which is the LAST thing any sane person wants.