Clearly Iran could not win a shooting war with the United States. The physical destruction would be horrifying. Thus Iran will not attempt to confront the U.S. in that kind of war. Instead, I predict Iran will conduct a cyber war on the United States.
In fact Iran has already taken the first shots. In October 2013, Sheldon Adelson, the casino magnate and prominent supporter of conservative politicians and Israel, appeared on a panel in New York in which he suggested that the U.S. could send a message to Iran, regarding its nuclear ambitions, by detonating an American warhead in the middle of the Iranian desert.
Just four months later, in February 2014, hackers inserted malware into the computer networks of Adelson’s Las Vegas casino (Sands Hotel and Convention Center). The withering cyber-attack laid waste to about three quarters of the company’s Las Vegas servers; the cost of recovering data and building new systems was $40 million or more. A year after the attack, the top U.S. intelligence official confirmed that Iran was behind it. Bloomberg reported this on their website and it was repeated on Yahoo.
It is not unlikely that Iran would conduct attacks on America’s banks, electrical grid and other parts of America with attacks similar to what they did to the Sands facility to obtain revenge for the killing of Iranian general Qassem Suleimani.
What kinds of retaliation would President Donald Trump direct? Iran has a population of about 82 million people and so it is unlikely the United States would invade. More likely is a cyber attack on Iran. The winner of such a war is unpredictable.
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