It’s good that he’s giving them a chance to avoid conflict. But one thing the world cannot have is a nuclear armed fundamentalist nutter country. Just look at the havoc they have done to European and Asian trade in the Red Sea via their proxies. That has very little to do with us directly but we are the only ones capable of countering it. Obviously their strategic aims are one of the main reasons behind the devastation in Gaza, Lebanon and Syria. They are also behind deaths and injury of Americans in Iraq. They can’t be allowed nukes.
Some people say Iran has formidable anti-aircraft technology but clearly they do not as Israel has gone in and out several times. I don’t think anyone wants a boots on the ground war with Iran. And surely just flying is combat risk. But a very targeted and limited campaign, targeting their nuclear facilities and perhaps some of their conventional sites, is very possible. The heavy bombers can take out even hardened under mountain facilities from 40,000 feet while F35 and others can take out more conventional sites.
The biggest risk I think is that they will go rogue and fire missiles at seemingly random targets. Our ships, certainly. Our bases in the regions, probably. Israel, definitely. Saudis and others - perhaps. Everyone will be on high alert.
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But one thing the world cannot have is a nuclear armed fundamentalist nutter country.
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Okay, do we all realize Pakistan is profoundly Muslim, extreme such, and have 75 or so nuclear warheads?
Also, Iran has a functioning nuclear power reactor. The fuel rods from these are extracted when exhausted. Within them, difficult to extract, but far easier than spinning material in centrifuges, we have a rich source of Plutonium 239.
About 98% of all nuclear warheads on Earth are plutonium based.
They can turn over the centrifuges and the U-235 and still get nuclear warheads.