On 3 July 1988, an Iranian airliner filled with suicidal jihadis tried to destroy a US Naval vessel by flying into the vessel backwards. The photographs show the airliner had its tail pointed at the US Naval vessel, and the crew of the vessel said the airliner was flying directly at them in a suicidal jihadi attack.
Iran must have had advanced airliners designed to fly backwards so they could fly into and destroy US Naval vessels and the crew would be fooled into thinking the airliner was flying away from them. At least that's the official US Navy version of what happened. So the US Navy ship shot the airliner down, killing 290 people, men, women, and children suicidal jihadists. And Iran could do absolutely nothing.
Iran were annoyed and vowed to work on naval defence systems that would enable them so sink any US Naval vessel that attacked Iran. They've had 36 years to work on their naval defence systems.
On 31 July, Ismail Haniyeh was killed while attending the inauguration of the new Iranian president, Masoud Pezeshkian, and Iran believe Israel were responsible and vowed they would retaliate in a way that would be very painful for Israel, so the US is sending a Naval Fleet with an Aircraft Carrier to protect Israel. If Iran strikes Israel, a massive carpet bombing of Iran by the US will show that Israel must never be attacked, or the US will destroy the attacker.
Iran plan to sink that aircraft carrier and most of the rest of that fleet should they attack Iran.
Of course, Israel has promised to nuke Iran if they dare to really attack Israel. After Israel killed many Iranians in the Iranian Embassy in Syria, on 1 April, Iran said they would retaliate, and gave the day and time, so the US, UK, France, and Jordan shot down many of the drones sent on 13 April, and the missiles sent by Iran only hit empty military bases, killing no Israelis and damaging no Israeli military equipment. Israel then struck Iran with a strike that did little damage, and that was that. Iran did warn that, if Israel did anything similar to killing Iranians in an embassy again, the retaliation would be much more painful for Israel, and Israel said, if Iran tried it, a) the US would carpet bomb Iran; and b) Israel might nuke Iran.
So we seem to be getting closer to a major escalation of the conflict in the Middle East.
Israel will likely have to deal with simultaneous attacks from Hezbollah in Lebanon, Ansarallah in the Yemen, and Iran, and these will not be announced and will not target only temporarily deserted military facilities, but will destroy many military facilities and the soldiers stationed there. Iran is not thought to be planning to target Israeli civilians.
The US Fleet sent to support Israel might find that Iran are far less impotent than they were in 1988, and we'll likely know the answer to that sooner rather than later.
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