SalarHaqq
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Those second tier adversaries are at least as vulnerable as the US to Iranian missile-centric counter-strike. No worries to have, when the Americans aren't able to reach their objectives through military means, then this is even truer for any number of possibly hostile neighbors.
Any purchase of fighter jets will have to stay within the established doctrinal framework. Many different types of weapons could theoretically be acquired, the question is always A- are they cost-effective, especially considering the fact that Iran can't afford to go "military first" to the extent Korea did in the 1990's for example, and B- do they make sense in comparison to possible alternatives and in view of realistic conflict scenarii Iran might get caught up in.
I can see Iran possibly buying a couple dozen fighters from Russia in the coming years, although it's far from certain. But even if it doesn't happen, it will not really put Iran at so much of an increased risk.
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Well thanks for the comment, now all I can say is that if you study in detail and from serious, non-propagandistic sources the history of relations between Iran on the one hand and the US and zionist regimes on the other hand since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, I'm confident that eventually you'll come to acknowledge the hostility these imperial powers have had for Iran, as well as the massive efforts they put into trying to provoke "regime change" in Tehran.
It would be time-consuming to go into the details of these deeply adversarial relations, so I'll simply wrap it up with a few hints... The first one, no country other than Iran is subjected to a propaganda war this intense - a comparative study of different foreign language media of western regimes (like the BBC, Voice of America and so on) will reveal that their Persian-language services usually spew several times the amount of propaganda than even their Chinese- or Russian-speaking ones. Another indicator is the fact that every exiled Iranian opposition grouplet (from monarchists to liberals to communists to religious extremists and "ethnic" separatists) enjoys massive support (money, training, intelligence, propaganda, sometimes arms) from NATO regimes, zionists as well as some of their regional allies like Saudi Arabia. A third quick reminder, is that none of the states America actually waged war upon over the past 43 years, whether Saddam's Iraq, Libya or others, has been as detrimental to US / zionist interests as Iran. If Washington conducted large scale military operations against smaller opponents like those mentioned, then surely it will be motivated to operate in a similar manner against Iran if it thought that the military option is actually affordable (and even so, to save face they always claim that this option is "on the table").
As for the purely military aspect of how such a conflict would play out, I can only encourage familiarization with Iranian area denial (A2/AD) capability and doctrine. There are analyses / comments on the topic on this forum, and even western or zionist scholars have been objective enough at times to explain why the military option against Iran would be so costly and difficult for them to implement.
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