It's a really, really old tub. Launched in 1969, and not sunk during Praying Mantis. It has some teeth though, 8 C-802 sea-skimmers, but I hardly see how it could get into position to launch them. IMO, enough of a threat not to be ignored, but expendable enough so that its loss would be no major blow to the IRG navy. Looks like Iran looks for any pretext to get directly involved in this war... Mullahs are miscalculating badly. Sticking their nose into the meat grinder, hoping no one will crank the handle.
Biden will pass Iran onto the next president, even if it’s himself. For reasons only his team know, he seems to value not acting.
While there could be some value in this, if your expecting a change to come, like elections, most of the protagonists don’t have elections, so it seems unlikely Iran/Russia are going to change.
In the meantime you leave Ukraine taking casualties, and Iran getting confident. Ironically just as hamas was confident on 6 oct, that they knew the rules.
Ultimately USA is preparing for China, but can you really leave fires burning on every corner, while waiting for the city to light up?
Even if this is to avoid a Muslim riot in USA/Europe, your not avoiding, only delaying. If not Israel, it will be India/Pakistan, or something else.
We seem to be doing the wrong things, to avoid bad things, which are going to happen, because bad things happen.