Homework First

So the US is scoping out Iran and identifying targets?

The United States has been conducting secret reconnaissance missions inside Iran to help identify potential nuclear, chemical and missile targets, The New Yorker magazine reported Sunday.

Good. Isn't that one of the lessons of Iraq - always push for better and better intel? And that's even presuming that the leak quoted wasn't designed simply to frighten Iran into cooperation, or to act as a diversion vis a vis Syria.