re: #398 Petero1818

Actually I believe Israel’s 1981 bombing of Iraq took care of the threat to begin with. But on another point, it is believed that IRan learned a great deal from Israel’s bombing of their nuclear program. Iran has established a very decentralized program housed entirely underground in multiple locations. It is not well established that these places could be effectively targeted even if we knew where they all were. With so many troops still in the neighbourhood, it is not without enormous risk.

They’d have a hard time attacking us directly. However, if they decided to attack our ships, we’d probably lose a destroyer before we crushed them.