Everyone else now recognizes Iran's power.
Iran is four times larger than California and has high resilience.
Anthony Blinken, former US Secretary of State:
We are dealing with a country like Iran, which is four times the size of the state of California and three times the size of Iraq, has 90 million inhabitants and boasts an extensive and very long coastline.
This country still owns weapons and continues to manufacture them; Weapons that can threaten the Strait of Hormuz.
Perhaps Iran's ability in this area is not as great as in the past, but it is still enough to severely disrupt shipping in this area.
Furthermore, we are dealing with a very resilient political system, and whether we like it or not, it has successfully resisted Iraq for eight years; A war during which 200,000 people were killed.