> If the Iranians could have they would have done so already. There's a reason why they had resorted to militias and sectarian violence in Iraq instead. A succ

> If the Iranians could have they would have done so already. There's a reason why they had resorted to militias and sectarian violence in Iraq instead. A successful strike on a US carrier group would inevitably lead to large scale reprisals on both the attacking force and the nation launching the attack. Iran wouldn't kill a carrier just to prove they could, and would instead reserve such an attack for the event of a Carrier group attacking something of existential importance to the Iranian state.