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jpgvmtoday at 6:08 AM0 repliesview on HN

No. They have been able to destroy much more important and hardened targets, i.e multiple AN/TPY-2 radars, the extremely valuable AN/FPS-132 radar in Qatar, $Bs worth of aircraft on the apron at Prince Sultan airbase in Saudi.

Not to mention being able to quickly deliver counter-attacks to like for like infrastructure when theirs has been attacked. i.e the Ras Laffan counter punch after South Pars was attacked and the UAE aluminium plants after their steel mills were hit etc.

They have also already essentially taken AWS Bahrain permanently offline at this stage.

So they are certainly capable of it but simply hitting the target removes the leverage of using it in a negotiation. If it's already gone you can't say "we won't hit X if you agree to terms Y before time Z".