The air strike is being played up as a warning to Iran carefully calculated not to upset the chances of negotiation on other matters such as the nuclear deal. “This was meant to say, ‘we mean business, you can’t continue to push us around and attack us through proxies. You will pay a price,'” said Barry Pavel, director of the Atlantic Council’s Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security. Fox News called it a “shot across the bow” and warning to Iran.