i told you at the start that i supported doing this viciously and swiftly without mercy or possibility of compromise, and i didn't support trying to create leverage for negotiations or otherwise fucking around.
they actually blockaded venezuela, but they are not blockading iran.
my proposal is as follows:
(1) if the americans are serious, they will blockade the strait of hormuz and sink or capture any iranian vessel transiting it. the desire to open the strait rather than close it suggests that they aren't serious.
(2) there needs to be a ground invasion on the southern coast of iran. it should not use european soldiers, it should use arab soldiers.
(3) the punishment enacted on iran for it's behaviour should be the permanent loss of coastal territory and the loss of the area called baluchistan, which has a muslim and pakistani popuation, via annexation by the uae.
(4) the kurds should ignore washington and just seek to peel off the areas of kurdistan, luristan, gilakistan, mazandaranistan and some of the other iranian-speaking secular regions.
(5) the azeris have their own self interest and are on their own. they aren't anarchists, and they're smelly turks. i have less solidarity for them. but they will do something. what isn't clear, and i don't have that knowledge, as i'm not interested. they may want to build some kind of coalition with azerbaijan, which would be up to them. i would be more interested in protecting the armenians. connecting the two segments of azerbaijan via iran could solve some problems..
(6) the israelis need to step it up by focusing on serious targets. if i was picking targets, i would be trying to decapitate the iranian deep state, which includes the clerics, the judiciary and the "guardian council" and "council of experts", in addition to the irgc. wiping out executive decision makers, who are nominally elected, will have little effect if the unelected councils remain in place. it's the unelected decision makers that need to be evaporated. if this was a norse saga, the usurping king would invite everybody to a party, get them drunk and burn the house down. i don't know where they meet, but it can and should be targeted. this is what they have not done yet and will do if they are serious. if they don't do this, it won't work; the councils will just pick new executives. the councils need to be eliminated in order for this to work.
(7) what europe, and perhaps canada, should actually do is focus on training lebanese security forces to wipe out hezbollah. this is a more traditional anti-terrorist operation, and it could potentially minimize harm done in lebanon. some displacement of the non-lebanese muslim population is required in the south of lebanon, but it doesn't have to be in body bags, they can be deported.
china and europe should not send ships to open the straits. that does not help topple the government in iran, it just keeps it in place so that don coyote can make a sneaky deal for the oil.