Subject: Re: Iran's Missiles
Let’s give Iran ten more pallets of cash and lift all sanctions. Or better yet, just surrender altogether.

The benefits or detriments of either of those options have nothing to do with whether Iran's missiles are made domestically. Which they are.

Nor do they affect whether it is possible to use bombing to prevent Iran from having a significant ballistic missile capability over anything but the very shortest term (if at all). Which we cannot. Iran produces their own drones and ballistic missile capabilities. If you blow up their missiles and launchers, they can build more. If you blow up their factories, they can rebuild the factories. You can't use bombing to stop them from being able to have those things. They have a fairly sizable industrial and heavy manufacturing base. It's not as advanced as an OECD nation, of course - but they are perfectly capable of building their own missiles and missile factories.

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.