Quo video.
Odd strategically & tactically that is, but not untypical of a grandious-empire-building small-time dictator with delusions of grandeur.
If I were they, I’d keep de-stabilizing their neighbors, freezing their (really capable) enemies (US & USSR) through internal enemies of the people in power in the US (or support the friends the KGB/gangsters in the Soviet Union so Iran is not invaded), build shore-to-ship missiles and mines (plus convert merchant/fishing ships to deliver them), and surface-air missile defenses to protect these trucks and forts, ...
But those aren’t glamorous targets (er, ships) that make good photographs.