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Actually, the US did some war games where their entire surface navy got crippled, I seem to recall they lost at least one carrier to just a massive swarm of low-tech ships, inflateable boats and cessnas.
I'm not even talking missiles, here, but consider that the US fleet got wrecked without missiles, and the Iranians have both what the opposing side used in the war games AND some level of modern tech.
As for Iran being unable to strike at home US and UK holdings? Er, they have connections to terrorist groups. Don't forget the London underground bombings and 9/11, saying they can't strike at your homelands if you piss them off too bad, I think that would be a very, very foolish miscalculation. Your home soil is not impregnable.
There's also the fact that if the US or UK use any sort of "from miles away" attack with rocket or nuclear bombardment, they'll become even more international pariahs than they already are. It'd win the battle, but lose the war for centuries to come.
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