>To figure out the leverage just imagine 50 fighter jets over your head each with 6 heavy bombs where their goal is to blow you up. Now argue that those controlling those jets have no leverage.

You have no leverage.

The Vietnam war ended only 50 years ago and you behave as if it never happened.

Furthermore Iran is mountainous country. Bombing Iran is as pointless as bombing Germany in 1944 - Everything important has been under ground and did nothing to limit industrial output of the enemy.