RE: US not seeking war with Iran but prepared to ‘finish one’
That sounds like an acknowledgment that WE ALREADY ARE AT WAR.
We are at war with the Islamic Republic of Iran, and have been since 1979, The ayatollahs believe it with all their hearts and minds, and they lead their people to chant “Death to America!”
That the US has never responded with their answer to the unilateral declaration, makes the situation with Iran no less a war than was the so-called “Cold War” with the Soviet Union, which effectively ended with the collapse of the Communist government there, trapped by the immutable laws of economics, having spent themselves into penury trying to stay ahead of the US in military technology.
Like the old Soviet Union, the US could and should drive the economy of the Islamic Republic of Iran into the ground and put a stake through its heart.