Dear LeGenD
Iranians are not mindless zombies. They are humans. They are as much susceptible to shock factor as other humans.
When Iraq went in to Iran under the leadership of Saddam during 1980, it did not possessed the resources for occupational role. And their were no clear objectives. Had it been a capable military force in Iraq's place, led by a competent leadership; the outcome would have been very different. Both of these countries fought in WWI style and wasted lot of resources. You are impressed by this?
Operation Praying Mantis should have taught you something. However, it seems that guys like you will not be convinced until entire Iran gets bombed back to stone age.
If the Iranians are susceptible to shock, so does the Americans (or, are they superhuman as in the Hollywood movies?), since both have warfare experience, I do not think that the shock will be greater for the Iranians, quiet the contrary, The US will look, feel and sound like Israel against Hezbollah in Lebanon, but just on a bigger scale.
No Muslim or Arab (even Iraqis themselves- it is because of that war that Saddam lost his support amongst the Iraqis-) was impressed by the Iran /Iraq war or could even believe it was happening! Saddam listened too much to different western powers who had pretended to be helping him while they were playing ball with him, since his psychological profile was weak due to a low IQ, although he did good for Iraq and had good intentions for his people, he lacked the much needed shrewdness in world affairs.
Operation Praying Mantis happened while all the energy of Iran was directed towards Iraq, and had almost no Navy, I should add that Iran still managed to hurt the US.
I will not be convinced of American military power even if it says openly it will bomb Iran to stone age, since I know with enough certainty that the US will be sent to stone age, either before that or after its attempt at it.
The US propaganda had worked a heavy toll on your mind, but I am not blaming you, since they use every psychological dirty trick to influence people including subliminal messages and mind control techniques throughout the mass media and where ever they are.
This is only one of the thousand other reasons for what The US will be sent back to stone age sooner or later.