It has purchased from Russia the Supersonic SS-N-22 Sunburn anti-ship cruisemissile, which was designed specifically to strike our Aegis cruisers and destroyers.
Russia's announcement last Saturday that it will sell Syria the supersonic Yakhont anti-ship cruisemissile was a testament to Iran's rising regional power and the US's loss of power.
Mr Haggerty reckons this would require (for openers) striking around 450 targets, including more than 20 command, control and early-warning radar centres, 150 SAM sites, 205 aircraft shelters, 32 additional air-base targets, 27 surface-to-surface (SS) missile batteries and 12 anti-ship cruise-missile batteries.