Former US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken on Iran:
Iran is four times bigger than California. That's three times the size of Iraq. It has 90 million people.
This coastline along the Strait of Hormuz goes on forever.
The weapons it continues to produce have gone back far enough, the range is great enough, that you can't just take everything out.
You'd probably have to do some sort of land invasion to do that, which would be a total disaster.