Washington, June 22 -- Following the US strikes against three Iranian nuclear facilities on Sunday amid the ongoing conflict between Iran and Israel, former Pentagon official Michael Rubin has said that Iranians will not retaliate in a manner, which is expected.

Rubin said that he would be much more worried about attacks on a shopping mall in Dallas, Texas or in Iowa than about the US bases in Bahrain in the West Asian region.

"Iran oftentimes will react with bluster. However, sometimes their retaliation is then much more limited in a way that signals that they don't want this to go too much further. I suspect that Ayatollah Khamenei will have to respond simply because his own legitimacy is so tied to this nuclear program," the former P...