The US will need 500,000 minimum for the invasion so that’s an unrealistic scenario. Those 5,000 Marines something would occupy strategic points in Iran, but that’s still weeks or months away. Iran still has thousands of missiles, and drones. Every ground invasion is suicide.Actually, if the Trump administration will deploy ground troops to Iran, this rescue mission definitely thought the Iranian military leaders where they have shortcomings.
It is very likely that the Iranian military leaders will provide shoulder-fired SAMs to their Basij forces. And equipping the local forces with MANPADs will definitely make future SAR operations much more difficult.







