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Whether it's sufficiently precise for you to be impressed or not, there's more than one large infrastructure site in Israel & being able to hit them matters in terms of deterrence. It matters that less than 24 hours after a refinery in the South Pars Field was hit, Iran was able to respond with a direct strike on a major Israeli refinery. If someone says they took it for granted that this could be done under war conditions, they're lying. Now does going into a tit for tat if hitting each other's energy & water infrastructure benefit Iran? Not really. Iran's own infrastructure is fragile as we can clearly see even in peacetime. It would certainly be better if it could hit much smaller military sites reliably in a way that could put a dent in Israel's airstrike capabilities (and this would be lower on the escalation ladder). But this is important. It doesn't get you enough deterrence to stop an attack outright ... but it did have an impact on what types of targets Israel decided to hit and what it left alone. Had Iran not been able to do this one would assume Israel's attacks on Iranian energy infrastructure would have been more aggressive. And in the case the Islamic Republic would be facing total annihilation ... this could be a sort of dead man's switch.