[Steel Wolf]

You mass troops on the Iranian border and I guarantee you can make them blink or blunder into the mistake of doing something overtly hostile.

Are we talking about intimidating Iran, or annexing Texas?

This tactic simply won't work. For one thing, we occasionally might skirmish now and then with the Iranians. It barely makes the news, much less as an act of war. Second, we don't have a credible force to project into Iran, due to our drained national will, so they have no reason to fear an invasion. Especially on the flimsy grounds your proposing.

[Prodigal Son]

Flimsy grounds? They stormed our embassy and kidnapped our citizens. Paraded them on television for 444 days. They are building nukes at the moment and talking about wiping Israel off the map. That justifies anything we care to do to them. Personally, I wouldn't even mass the troops on the border. I'd flatten Tehran and have done with it.

Are we talking about intimidating Iran, or annexing Texas?

I'm talking about destruction of a hostile culture.