General Discussion

the US government so high that there will be no benefit obtained even if they succeed. Iran would have to fight a very long drawn out war to wear out the US and Israel militarily and the devastation inside of their country from such a war would be unrecoverable. Look at Syria. They will spend over 50 years rebuilding and it will never be the same. And that's in addition to their population recovering from all the death and mutilation. Same with Gaza.

I wouldn't suggest they retaliate in such a way if the US had not already bombed Iran's desalinization plant. This was an act of terrorism as was the deliberate double-tap bombing of the girl's school when taking into consideration the already illegal bombing campaign.

Terrorism is a tactic, not an ideology. And now that the US and Israel have used it. The Iranians are more likely to increase terror attacks. Also, martyrdom is a central, defining, and revered concept of the Shia sect of Islam.

Keep in mind, water has already been a source of resource contention and potential conflict between Iran and Afghanistan over the Helmand River and has escalated into serious, occasionally violent, confrontations affecting the Sistan-Balochistan region, aggravated by climate change, droughts, and the Taliban's construction of dams and canals.

This is known to military planners and they are trying to break the Iranian will by putting extreme strain on their population.