and the like, the iranians have show no affinity for sending naval craft where there would be actual confrontation that could be pointed to. so perhaps finally they are listening to what candidate trump said in 2016 this they know, they have not directly engaged the u.s. navy, they have not apparently directly engaged any of our assets in this type of harassment. no, they haven t, certainly not in a lethal way. asymmetric warfare works in mountains and cities where inferior foe take on a superior one, in the air-sea domain, that s much, much harder to do and i don t see the iranians want to go risk that and they don t want to be seen as being too aggressive in such a way they can be pointed to. they want to provoke u.s.