Guys, let our resident IRI shill do his victory lap. It's all he will have to cling to. The part he doesn't articulate in his pseudo-rationalistic exultations of the "emerging ultimate hegemon Iran" is that this attack smacks of desperation from Iran's rulers. They are despearate for sanctions relief, desperate for financial breathing space and desperate in general.
They are running out of time, financially and demographically. What our shrewd "analyst" won't tell you is that Iran itself is in massive decline on all fronts, which inevitably happens if you pour more than half of your national resources into foreign terror proxies and questionable weapons programms while your average citizen can't even get the corona jab.
The name has escaped me right now, but the guy wrote under the handle of Spengler for a while, he basically argued that the more Iran's regime gets cornered the more they will try to escalate violence across the region in order to cling to power. Well, I'd say what we're seeing would fit that pattern.
Tomorrow the dust will settle, a lot of Palestinians, Syrians and other Arabs will be turned into red mist, Israel will once more pound Iranian targets in Syria while Russia looks the other way. Rinse and repeat.