If your going to attack their country, they're going to be alienated. When the bombs fall from American plans and kill Iranians, they're going to be alienated. If another country wages an air bombardment on the United States, what would your reaction be? Persians are just as nationalistic as we are, if not more so - they will not stand for their homeland being bombed, anymore then we would.



Well, that's funny, because I have many Persian friends, even my girlfriend's parents are from Iran. They're pretty unanimous about one thing. If you want to completely destroy the reform movement and ensure the regime's survival, bomb Iran tomorrow.



See, this is the problem. You don't think it'll be an issue because you think they'd differentiate between military targets and non-military (I don't think you can consider power stations and bridges as strickly military targets, considering their important civilian functions too). Some will, but it won't matter, your attacking their nation, it's going to kill fellow Iranians and they won't stand for that. Also many have friends in family in the IRGC, because that's were all the money and jobs are. Look at the lessons of history, I don't have to remind you about the Iranian's Sacred Defense during the Iran-Iraq war. This was when the new Islamic government was still in it's infancy, many in the west were expecting the Iranian regime to crumble domestically once war got underway. Boy were they wrong - The Iranians rallied and united behind the new government and defended their nation with unnerving zeal. In fact it was from Iran-Iraq war that brought to prominence the second generation of revolutionaries - like Ahmadinejad and Rezaee.

Look, we're already in 2 wars right now, lets finish those before thinking who to bomb next.