so, it looks to me like the americans are planning an invasion of southwestern iran, and that they want to go in from the sea and from iraq, in order to hold the port towns and basically blow up any remaining farce of naval control the iranians have. if the iranians continue to send missiles, the americans will put boots on the ground.
however, they are foolishly attempting to obfuscate it and they will deflect if you ask them about it.
i hope that is what they are doing. it's not the plan i would have written, but it's a step towards regime change. if you don't like the violence, if you want the killing to slow down, there's no way to get there without changing the government in tehran. if you haven't learned that yet, you have a learning disability.