Iran/US confrontation now at critical point

Tehran is claiming that the recent attacks on ships in the Strait of Hormuz were a mistake, carried out by some unregulated unit of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. I don't believe a word of it, there is no such thing as an ill-disciplined IRGC unit doing its own thing. Nevertheless, the military retaliation from the US was so huge that the rulers in Tehran realised it WAS a mistake, but it was their mistake, not some disobedient drone operating unit. So, Iran rushed off to Oman to talk about the strait and get the language sorted out between the two countries which, geographically, are in the dominant position either side of the strait. And then the severely injured and possibly disfigured new supreme leader, Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei issues a state,ent from his hideout that he wants revenge for the death of his father. That means only one thing if you're sitting in the White House. The ayatollah is threatening Donald Trump personally. So Trump instantly responded that he would destroy every part of Iran if there was an attempt on his life. It's one foot forward and three steps back. That's the way it is with this war. If the new supreme leader is calling on his citizens, wherever they are, to go for Trump, then this war is not going to end soon.