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Yes. 5000 marines for now but they will ultimately have to send more if a goal is regime change. They will also need more to carefully breach and clear the deep bunkers that the bunker buster ordinance can not penetrate likely also containing tripwires. There will also need to be some to patrol the shorelines of the straight, a lot more. IRGC are 200K highly trained zealot soldiers.

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For that kind of scope we are not talking just "some" more than 5000 but hundreds of thousands of soldiers, thus full invasion to a country twice the size and population of Afghanistan.

Agreed. The reason I said 5000 is due to 5000 marines in route as we speak. I do not know what their orders involve but it can't be the Strait. I am hoping it is to pop open all the deep bunkers, destroy the remaining missiles, missile production machinery, sweep for leaders in hiding, search for radioactive material and find the missing limited edition Marvel comic collection.

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