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This has real "if I were Hitler I simply would have invaded Britain" energy. Purely vibes based analysis that ignores the material conditions and objective reality of the situation.
Saying "use bunker busters on Natanz" makes it sound simple. Just like "manage fallout diplomatically" makes it sound like a single embassy flunky could do it over a weekend.
The reality is that if the US knew where every radar installation was and flew a flight of B21s in a crazy serpentine way to avoid detection and managed to drop dozens of Bunker busters, it probably wouldn't impact the nuclear program at all. And within 10 minutes every oil field on the Arabian peninsula would be in flames. It's hard to "diplomatically manage fall out" after Iran single-handedly destroys every Gulf Nation economy. I think they should have nukes, I want them to have nukes, but when you can utterly destroy everyone around you with conventional warheads just by targeting their oil infrastructure, it's a bit of a moot point.
If "decimating Iran's nuclear program" were simple, it would have been done already. NATO is not squeamish about conducting an attack like this. The reason it hasn't happened is because everyone knows military intervention in Iran would make the war in Iraq look like the US SMO in Grenada.
For real lololool. Americans have zero understanding of history, especially in the Middle East. The US lost a war trying to invade Iraq and only won the previous war with Iraq because it had the rest of the world helping. Iran fought an invading Iraq to a stalemate a year after a revolution and several coup d'etats had already caused a bunch of problems.
That was nearly 50 years ago and the Iranians have continued gaining experience fighting against ISIS, Israel, and various insurgencies at home. Their track record is far better than the US, where the DoD and CIA accidentally attacked one another because they were funding opposite sides in Syria.