He is either very confident that his American handlers will save him or that his bunker will protect him. Otherwise, he is dangerously close to his end.
It looks like we are back to the Biden-era policy of hitting empty buildings: doing just enough to say we’re doing something while reassuring the regime that we’re not doing much.
Targeting telecom towers while the regime is trying to strike air and naval bases is, to put it mildly, underwhelming.
If the objective is to impose costs and restore deterrence, how about targeting actual IRGC bases with actual IRGC officers inside them?
If the people of Iran cannot use the internet, the regime, its cronies, and its propaganda machine should not be able to use it either.
Give the regime an ultimatum that if it does not reconnect Iranians to the world, an internet blackout will be imposed on the regime too.