Really what can US do to Iran? Strait of Hormuz is really like a main artery blood vein, as long you hold it or squeeze it, it's gonna burst. It's basically who can survive if this vein is burst. Can UAE, Kuwait, Japan, Singapore, South Korea survives? These so call allies of US. Can the European survives the energy crisis? I say, even if Iran fires a couple of ballistic missiles at UAE, Kuwait, Jordan....what can they really do to Iran? What can their air bases do? They basically need to dig a hole deep enough to put their precious F-35, F16 whatever deep inside this bunker hole to have maybe less 50% survival or even can be deployed to fly. I read the Iranian developing bunker busting ballistic missiles. Practically US is now useless. For the GCC, you paid for a bodyguard....and that bodyguard you found out is impotent. You make the mistake of sanctioning Iran, means you cutting all their lifeline of economic fruits, happiness of comfortable living, not even iota middle class can be built can has this taste of the economic fruits to take your side. You maybe have 1000~2000 middle class, that adore your McDonalds, but probably now already shot dead by the IRGC hardliners or sleeping in a jail cells somewhere. Hardly enough for a revolution or uprising. There are basically no incentive for the population to uprise and you can't squeeze the Iranians further in this aspect, you make 80 millions poor and they are now is a very angry lot of people and who know says let it all burns (what stupidity of a sanctioning strategy). And worst off, you can't finish them off militarily, you got blowback your own bases destroyed, radars gone, ships, planes shot down, logistical destroyed. The purposes of economic sanctioning a country is to weaken the country so much so that you can finish them off in 1 blow.....you sanction, you weaken, but you can't finish it off....means this strategy has fail spectacularly. 40 or 50 years....and you can't finish the job. You now have a bunch of poor angry population, millions of them and armed dangerously with cheap drones, ballistic missiles and some "tech", targeting system from certain "backers" that he must not be name but we know who, that can cause you pain asymmetrically. If IRGC fires a ballistic missiles and knock out a Jordanian Palace, not a single thing the Jordan King can do anything about it....except mouthing off some expletives and call its US backer for help which they themselves can't do anything and caught in the punishment too. Israel did a better job, to wall off a bunch Palestinian and systematically finished them off in this enclosed piece of land. You got Turks, Egyptians, Saudis cheering and say begone Palestinians and indirectly even encouraging the IDF to hurry up and finish up the genocide so they can get back to their oil money and enjoy life, 1 millions to finish them off, doesn't matter as long I have my Dubai city glitter and gold. Thanks goodness, you still has the Houthis, Hezbollahs still has some sense of morality to defend these bunch of people. A bunch of rascals now sitting and meeting in G7.....what a group of coconut bunch, I say IRGC commander should fires a couple more ballistic missiles and let these group of jackals jump up......