You are the leader of Iran...

In real life Iran is tooled up with the unstoppable russian onyx (sunburn) ship killer. With these missile systems Iran can sink any ship large or small military or not in the persian gulf and straights of hormuz. So 1st thing I would do in the event of a US attack is would be to put as much of those shiny expensive US carriers and support ships to the bottom of the sea as I could. Probably quite a lot given the US does not yet (allegedly) have any effective counter to onyx. The battle would then be over. unfortunately Iran does not have nuclear weapons or ICBMs to deliver them so when washington finds out their fleet is decorating the sea floor I will have no deterrant to stop washington in a petulant rage launching its strategic nuclear ICBMs at my major cities and reducing Iran's population to a tiny percentage of its current 80 million. 'Duck and cover' boys and girls, 'duck and cover'.

They probably have about 5 of those. Not that you'd be able to fire it, of course.
 
Order the government (fellow Iranians) to surrender. Act perfectly reasonable, cooperate, make the Americans seem rough and authoritarian. Hope that public opinion will turn against the American government while selected people spread information about how the US was wrong, overbearing, and how the Iranian regime actually was quite nice. Meanwhile, I'd have my military soldiers blend back into the public and start a people's revolt against the US military. Fight a good clean fight and make the Americans seem brutal and harsh.
 
The Strategic Reserve holds what...700 million barrels or so? That won't run the country for more than a week or so, but if you're willing to direct it all to strictly military needs it could go quite a bit further.

According to the EIA, the United States has 21 billion barrels of proved oil reserves as of January 1, 2000. The U.S. uses about 6.6 billion barrels per year. That is only enough oil to last the U.S. about three and a half years without importing oil from other countries. 84% of the reserves are concentrated in four states.

They probably have about 5 of those. Not that you'd be able to fire it, of course.

Not sure. I reckon they would have stocked on them. Also Kilo subs can launch them.
 
According to the EIA, the United States has 21 billion barrels of proved oil reserves as of January 1, 2000. The U.S. uses about 6.6 billion barrels per year. That is only enough oil to last the U.S. about three and a half years without importing oil from other countries. 84% of the reserves are concentrated in four states.
Yeah, but that doesn't matter. Oil in the ground is worthless, and we don't have the extraction capability to get it out of the ground fast enough.
 
Overt, conventional military action in Iraq by Iranian forces would be difficult. If I were them, I would attempt to turn the Shiite militias against the Americans in a general uprising. Attempt to flood the country with all sorts of anti-air missiles and anti-tank missiles (to a much greater degree than is done now, since detection would not matter).

I would then do everything in my power to conceal any valuable military assets within Iran, and generally dig in. If there are in fact any useful anti-ship missiles, it may be a good time to fire them off, but if it is a long shot it may be better to preserve them for later.

The ultimate key would be to pin down American forces in Iraq. Against a large-scale Shiite uprising, it may be necessary for America to divert its air power to defeating that instead. If the air power is not focused on Iraq, then American ground forces lose a valuable force multiplier.
 
Youre options are limted. You are completely unable to strike back at the US naval assets pounding your country, or the planes dropping the bombs on you. The only thing that you CAN do, is to attack US forces directly in Iraq. Would you do it? Or just take the beating from the US quietly?

The other option is to surrender and give them what they want to spare my country from more suffering.

Of course, I was the leader of this regime and the situation wasn't threatening my regime directly, I'd strike back - missiles at Israel and US allies, blockade of the Hormuz Strait, suicide attacks against the Allied navy in the gulf.

Direct strike against the US forces in Iraq would be suicidal and it would open Iran for ground invasion, but I'd support the Shia militias and encourage them to rise up against the US and British forces. That would keep the Allies accupied.
 
Fund Hezbollah to redeclare on Israel, al-Sadr on Iraqi government, and bunker/partisan as defense against US, frogmen, missiles and torpedo against US warships, shore oil derrick on fire, and recruit more young men for suicidal squad against US targets.

But I guess the damned Syria/Lebanon/Pakistan will keep quiet and watch the slaughter on Iran.
 
Attack over land with my forces into Iraq, and Afghanistan. Launch an air or missle strike in the US airbase in Turkmenistan, Turkey, Saudi Arabia etc...

Use Hezbollah to stir up things with Israel and the Shia's in Iraq to cause a whole lot of problems and collapse the Iraqi central government.

Try to close the Straits of Homruz using missiles and sucide ships and threthan oil supply of Saudi Arabia by striking oil refiniries.

Be sure to use lots of propaganda against the great Satan America. Consolidate my air defence forces at primary military installations and large civillian cities.

Use kamakize attacks and missile attacks and sucide ships to try to take out US carriers. Submarines would be good for this maybe. Just go at them in masses sure most will proabaly get taken out but I only need 1 or 2 torpedoes to get through don't I?

Stir up Islamic reveloutionary sentiment in Pakistan and Saudi Arabia to cause problems there.

Try to get Chinese and Russian support for them to put pressure on the US and stop them and give me military aid.
 
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