This is such a infuriatingly off the mark comment. This isn't domestic politics. This is a regional power in the most geopolitically important location in the world. The can strike the oilfields of the entire Person Gulf. The can close the Strait of Hormuz. They have a large modern military, large on-the-ground intelligence service in the region, and advanced offensive military cyber capabilities. This is profoundly bigger than the US Presidential election. It is a bad sign that this is so many peoples' take.

This is real war, the likes of which we haven't seen since Vietnam or the Korean peninsula. Professionals have dreaded this for a long time, and that was with extraordinarily more competent executive function.