Iran’s regime has a huge problem: how to retaliate

ALI KHAMENEI, the supreme leader of Iran, promised that Israel would face “severe punishment”.  But his first effort to impose it was barely a nuisance. On Friday morning Iran launched around 100 explosive drones at Israel (some were deployed from Iraq to shorten their flight times). This was Iran’s initial response to a wave of Israeli air strikes that knocked out its air defences, damaged its nuclear-enrichment facility at Natanz and decapitated its military.