You arguably can't run gorilla large-scale manufacturing. There are obvious limits to what you can achieve when the opposition can run decapitation strikes every few months.

China and russia can. And they can send that shit to iran through pakistan and the caspian

You gotta bet china and russia loved what happened here

lol no, they both have lost substantial influence in Iran... the US has been chipping away at the spheres of influence for both China and Russia in recent months, first with Venezuela and now Iran. Hopefully Cuba is next.

And the US surveillance capabilities are substantially greater than they were during the Iraq and Vietnam wars. Smuggling in drones or missiles isn't some trivial affair.

And again, if they do that, we just decapitate their leadership again. And again. Until they stop.

This sounds a bit delusional. You do see the difference between venezuela and iran right? How the first went smoothly for the US and the other absolutely isnt.

And the talk of chipping away at russia and china's influence in iran, youdo know that iran is asking for payment in yuan to let ships through. The US invaded iraq to maintain the petro dollar and now iran os flagrantly subverting it and backing china's currency

and now you're into mesh logistics and distributed supply from outside backers in interesting terrain with long borders.

Irrelevant if you can keep doing decapitation strikes on leadership.