Originally Posted by
Miradus
England or the United States wouldn't even really have to wage war on them. All we'd have to do is sink their navy (all five ships), put their planes out of the sky, and then sit there and let them starve to death.
We can see any uranium enrichment site they set up from orbit and put a cruise missile on it from just about anywhere. There's nobody left in the region who would ally with them publicly and even Saudi Arabia would let us launch strikes on Iran from out of their territory.
It's a no win situation for them. They can SAY whatever they want, be however belligerent they want in their rhetoric ... but actually trying to seize a foreign ship ... that's just incredibly stupid.