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The benefits or detriments of either of those options have nothing to do with whether Iran's missiles are made domestically. Which they are.
And your point had zero to do with Jedi’s, which was that China helps. Because they do. No one disputes that Iran builds their own stuff, because they do. Just as no one should dispute that both China and Iran are bad actors that would just allow to run roughshod over certain parts of the world.
Just because you find unappealing or unworkable the alternatives of trying to induce them to voluntarily disarm or giving up on trying to disarm them doesn't mean that the "bomb them from afar" option would work, either. It may very well be that none of those options work. Criticizing the former is not an argument that the current operation will have any material impact on Iran's ballistic missile threat profile within a year or so after the bombs stop falling.
They’re not going to give anything up voluntarily. Causal observers of foreign policy know that the Iranians always negotiate in bad faith, never keep their word, and as a regime exist to export mayhem and chaos. It’s a far better strategy to bring the chai to their doorstep and let them experience it rather than sit around and allow them to export it - at will - at little to no cost to themselves.
