I reckon the best way for Iran to use their Skh...err...Hout...(Skhval sounds SO much better) so to fit it to a small 'torpedo boat' and use it medium to short range against merchant shipping.
Unless their imported Kilo's sonar suite is as good as what the Russkies have at the moment, it'd have to be a pretty dumb CVBG that allows one to get near it...and even if it did it'd be a definately one way trip.
Skhvals (ask anyone who's played a SC or DW match) are weapons for a knife fight, quick release...designed more to scare your opponent than to actually hit them (though if you do manage to hit them, they don't know WHAT hit them [Conn, sonar, torpedo in the BOOM!!]) If you're gonna fire a Skhval you need a damn good FCS because you can't (yet) change its course. It's like an old WW2 torpedo...just much, much, much faster.
And by the time you've got THAT close to an Allied fleet...you've got a Spearfish or Mk48 in your hull.
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