In firing a pair of missiles at the UK base on Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean, Iran just demonstrated that they can hit targets twice as far away as anyone had thought. It is not safe to conclude that its abilities have been degraded, especially when it just demonstrated its ability to reach out and touch London and Paris.
It appears we’re going to find out soon if the mullahs are really the mad dogs that the neocons claim that they are, or if that was just another lie.