I'm with
@rufrdr on this. They could have easily caused much more collateral damage with missles. Even more so if they had their Hezbollah proxies in Lebanon launch an attack.
This is a tit-for-tat, I'm assuming, that Iran wants to go no further.
Thing is, I think it will go further.
Personally, I don't buy that the world has shifted opinion towards Gaza in the fight. I think the majority of the world doesn't care, is happy to ignore it and let those two squabbling kids fight it out, and is just putting out some, "oh noes. Think of the children." statements for posterity. And I think Israel realizes this and is taking advantage of this to solve some thorns in their side. Which brings us to Iran.
Iran has several marks against it, in the US' eyes:
1.) They are making lots of drones for Russia against Ukraine.
2.) Drones are the new hotness, and the US likely doesn't like that Iran gave most smaller states a several decade leap forward in their drone capabilities.
3.) US is still mad about the downed drone Iran did. And mad about Iran thumbing their nose on the nuclear deal. And especially mad about them arming the Houthis. 'muh oil, 'muh shipping. You know how pissed off the US gets when people touch their boats.
4.) Israel has been pissed at Iran for fomenting things around all their neighbors for years.
5.) Biden doesn't want a war in his election year. But a quick fight, to show he's a strongman? I can see that.
So, my prediction:
Today: NSA will start developing a cyberweapon similar to stuxnet. Something novel that will probably take a couple years. Gotta task a malware development team off their current duties, so you gotta fill in gaps there. You gotta get spies on the ground to get human intelligence(how often do their check their logs? How good is their security? What hardware/software they using? What looks normal to them?), and will likely work with the Israelis on this.
In the next month:
Airstrikes against nuclear enrichment facilities, assassinations of scientists. Airstrikes against drone factories, but ironically the ones exporting to other countries rather than the ones Iran uses for their military.
In the next six months:
Massive cyber attacks by US, Israel. I'm assuming will be economic attacks, rather than on critical infrastructure. US has general stayed away from economic cyber attacks, that's mainly a China(more espionage than attacking, but the chinese red teams are known to moonlight by attacking video game companies to gain money for themselves)/Iran/Russia/North Korea(more stealing that attacking) but things change.
Attacks on Hezbollah, even though they were not involved in this.
In next two years:
A novel new cyber attack will come, targeting Iran, and we'll have "no idea" who from. If I was to make a guess, it would be instead of on nuclear or drone stuff, on the water and dams:
Fatemeh Aman, a non-resident senior fellow at MEI, on why the Islamic Republic and Taliban are bumping heads on transboundary water issues.
www.atlanticcouncil.org
Iranian officials have warned of historic drought while experts blame years of poor water management.
www.bbc.com
Mainly to exacerbate the water problem and to cause rifts between them and Afghanistan.
That's my guess, I bet we'll see.