Iran didnt have hypersonic cruise missiles like they have now, nor did they have hundreds of SCUD variant missiles like they have ben stockpiling up like now. Only ONE has to work, and if they fire 6 or 10 at once at a single target, there isn’t enough anti-missile firepower to guarantee safety
Iran fought a totally different war against Iraq than would be fought against us, and if you think that war would be limited to the Persian Gulf region, you would be wrong, and if you think it would be against American forces only, you would be wrong, too.
The Saudi’s need to be buying Patriot missiles, too.
I was working in Baghdad in 1983 during the insane Iran-Iraq war. The Iranians threw literally hundreds of thousands of fanatical young men against a well-armed Iraqi army and they were, not surprisingly, chewed up. We would do well to avoid a boots-on-the ground scenario in Iran and pulverize them with air and surface naval assets.