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Originally Posted by White Doors
Other than terrorist strikes, there is no way Iran can strike the USA now.
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No, none at all. Great post Mr. Geo-politics. Now, just thinking outloud, would this categorize as striking the USA?
1) Providing direct military support to the Shia in Iraq, tilting the balance of the civil war in Iraq and further destabilizing the region. Don't forget for one secont that the Americans HAVE TO WIN in Iraq or be viewed as a huge failure and completely defeated by the Islamic world.
2) Destroy the Iraqi oil fields. Destroy the oil fields period. Drive the price of oil to $120 a barrel, crippling the American economy.
3) Force the Americans into striking Iran, making America look like the bad guy and losing the rest of their international support.
4) Send home a big shipment of body bags filled with Americans. The United States has very little resolve and does not react well to the site of its own blood. Send home a few thousand body bags (sink a carrier or battleship should do that) and watch the American resolve crumble to nothing. This country is already against the Iraq war because of the dead they are not seeing. Let them see the death toll close up and they'll demand the troops be brought home. Nothing is more important in this country than "their children". Oh, and if the Iranians manage to get this done they achieve option one as well.
Iran doesn't have to strike United States soil to strike the United States and take the country to its knees. There are plenty of ways to hammer the United States and hurt them in ways worse than a bombing at a mall.