Iran's military is about four times larger than Iraqs was, with an intact unified military that has been geared towards the US for decades. We would still squash them like bugs, but it would be very costly in many ways.
The conflicts of interest your dumb ass has been pretending aren't important because it's Republicans doing it are partially driving this, because we have sold our foreign policy part and parcel to Saudi Arabia through Kushner, with Bolton pushing the war angle like he has for decades.
Meanwhile you have a servile bunch of chicken Republicans in Congress that offer a steady "Iran Bad" stream of "disastrous Obama deal" propaganda, without any proposed deal that might be better.
ALSO:
"drone attacks" that someone sure seems to want to attribute to the Iranian proxies in Yemen, for some reason
British generals publicly stating "Iran isn't doing anything different or provocative that we have seen"
At this point, what does it say when the Iranian diplomats saying "we have not ramped up anything" is more credible that anything coming out of this administration?
If we go to war against Iran, we have so pissed off our traditional allies, that we will be pretty much going it alone. Strike that...we will have Saudis on our side, a PR nightmare after Kashoggi's dismemberment.
This whole thing is a shambling -show. I have zero confidence that Bolton/Kushner won't succeed in starting this because Trump is just too lazy to give a .