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@Chzikken_1486 it's all hype. There is no way he can "take" the strait without significant casualties.

Iran doesn't even need to necessarily sink a single US ship. As soon as the 5th fleet runs out of defensive interceptors they will run away with their tail between their legs.
@Terry @Chzikken_1486 Trump's been publicly negotiating with Iran almost since the beginning, offering this and that way for Iran, if it'd please stop fighting, to let the US pretend to win. This could be yet another attempt at a fake victory in coordination with Iran, based mostly that Iran goes along with it.

Trump bombs the coast, drops Marines on the bombed coast, and then all Iran has to do is *not* kill all the Marines or continue to easily control the Strait.

Or if Iran kills the Marines, Trump gets to say that Iran attacked the US in an unprovoked act of aggression - since, you know, the US already completely won the war, and this is a wholly unrelated action, like he keeps insisting - and then Trump gets to gape in amazement as Americans continue to not support the war.

Or: all of this happens while the real act is for specops to sneak into Iran and then sneak back out with any amount of uranium, which Trump can declare is "all" the uranium, thus ending the war. There's NO WAY that Iran can enrich more uranium now, so it's OVER, OK? please.
I don't understand, what does "take" even mean here?

I mean, as long as Iran has missiles hiding somewhere in the mountains, they can let you "take" the strait, only to wipe out the first actual oil tanker that attempts to cross.

It's like terrorism, you can't even stop it from happening in a country that you completely "control". But now we're talking about "taking" the strait that's in the shadow of a bunch of suspicious mountains?

IMO this is jaw exercise...
Make a deal with the government of Iran: We won't kill you, we'll actually send you some personal spending money, and you call a ceasefire.

EXCEPT, they killed the government. Now it's a bunch of chaotic militant groups from the IRGC masquerading as a government, and no one of them has enough power to effectively order a ceasefire.

So basically, they're fucked.
@cjd @Terry Iran has missiles and drones with ~1000km range. They're getting satellite surveillance from China. It's not even close to enough to take the mountains surrounding the area. You need an invasion of the entire country to make them stop, and meanwhile no Navy ship has the guts to get within even 500km of the shore.