The news release by Iran (via tweet) (far below) is designed to stop whatever response the west was going to exhibit. A rational person would give a sigh of relief and say ‘thank God that this did not escalate’.
And then it will happen again, a few more missiles than last time, and then stop. . . no big deal. Then again. And then soon Israel being directly attacked by Iran will become the new normal.
We are being ‘conditioned’ to accept Iran’s direct action against our allies.