Humiliated, desperate and under siege, Iran has few options to retaliate

Instead of launching righteous retribution, Iran’s leaders are now in survival mode. Iran is supposed to be a regional power, the leader of the Shia Muslim world, and the “resistance” to US and Western imperialism in the Middle East. Now its leaders are hiding from ongoing Israeli strikes and downplaying the damage from a major US attack. Israel began by attacking nuclear and ballistic missile sites and assassinating nuclear scientists and military commanders. After Israel broadened its attacks, the US has now obliged an Israeli request for its B-2 bombers to use Massive Ordnance Penetrators and submarine-launched Tomahawk missiles to…