Sorry taddie 2 , I thought I answered . By saying Iran will defend itself . Who would prevail , is slightly different question . Tell me , if Hitler invaded Switzerland , and occupied it for a few years , and then they fell apart and left . Then who has prevailed ? If the army of Chengiz khan invaded and they destroyed cities and left , and disappeared from pages of history . Not daring to even mark the graves of their dead . While cities they destroyed were rebuilt with no sign of their presence . Then who prevailed ? If the yanks and Europeans do a shock and awe or fire and fury and they destroy and leave , who picks up the pieces ? The Chinese and Iranians and Russians and Indians who win the hearts and minds and markets . So even if Iran is utterly destroyed and occupied . The invaders will leave . Iran will be rebuilt . As it has been numerous times in history after invasions .
But this time , it won't be just Iran that will be destroyed . It will be many others . But unlike Iran , they will not recover or rebuild . You see Iran is Iran in it's smallest parts . Even the mountains are peculiarly Iranian . The soil is very Iranian . The animals are very Iranian , found no place else . The people look Iranian . They have a particular type .The idea of Iran is in everyone . How can you destroy such a people ? Iran like China is one of few countries that can be identified from space .
To inflict a mortal blow to the Saudi , we don't need army or ship or plane . All we have to do is March a few million men across the land and liberate the oil rich northern and eastern territory . By then the Saudi royals would have all left Arabia for Europe with stolen billions . The NATO will need several million men to occupy or drive out . They have no such force . And they will resort to using nukes . That is why they think they have an advantage . And insist on Iran not being nuclear . But little do they know .