As I said to Texasforever, I don't know where the nearest carrier group to the Persian Gulf is. But even for the low, slow, old and ugly, but reliable and much-beloved A-10 Warthog, picking off tanks from the air is like shooting fish in a barrel. A "column of tanks" is an arrangement that saves the defender a lot of effort.
We wouldn't have to wait for them to cross the border to raise the alarm; with modern thermal imaging on manned aircraft, satellites and drones, any column of tanks would light up like a particularly gaudy Christmas tree as soon as they started idling their engines.
The oft-cited wisdom is that generals are always studying how to fight the last war -- in the Muslim Middle East, it's more like the war before the war before last. In 1991, Saddam's Republican Guard dug in for WWI-style trench warfare along the Saudi border. It did not end well for them.
If the Iranians have high hopes for a Panzer strike with their Eisenhower-era tanks, they will find an even more ignominious end. If the Raptor is operational -- I don't think it is yet, but it could be pressed early if needed -- forget about it. The first sign that the Americans are coming will be the last sound you hear on this Earth.
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The A-10 is my favorite.
Good night.