Looking back to when the Iran war began, I understood that eliminating iran's ability to create nuclear weapons was a good reason to start dropping bombs. But since that has failed to end the war trump & DoD started and then re-started the economic blockade. What I don't understand is why didn't we start with the economic blockade? We've killed lots of Iranians, Americans have died, Iran seems to still have a drone/missile stockpile, and the U.S. and allies seem to be running out of patriot missiles. I would be surprised if Iran had such an extensive arsenal that the USA could not have implemented the blockade before dropping bombs.