"The country that killed 30,000 progressive protestors in a few days."

Ya, if you believe this you're poorly informed. Where does this number come from? Who sourced it? What is their relationship to Western powers? How are they able to count so many Iranians dying in dungeons so well? How about the logistics of killing 30 000 people?

BS American propaganda. Kuwaiti babies redux.

Iranian progressives have one thing that unites them: they remember that the CIA deposed the only democratically elected, progressive, president and installed a brutally repressive "Shah". [1]

"The only real theocracy left in the world."

That would have to include Israel, an apartheid state along religious lines where the Chief Rabbinate decides who can get married.

"the greatest state sponsor of terrorism in history."

Not according to the State Department; Iran and proxies don't crack the top 10. Sunnis (ISIS, Hamas, Muslim Brotherhood, etc) loath Shia and are not coordinated by Iran.

"The Muslim country all other Muslim countries love to hate."

Nope, only Sunni Gulf states hate Iran. Mostly because their rulers are colonial mandarins; the best example is Bahrain, a majority Shia population ruled by foreign Sunni elite installed by the UK 100 years ago. The native Bahrainis loath their rulers.

"Wannabe North Korea."

Say what you will about N. Korea, it isn't getting attacked though.

[1] Shah in quotes because, as a monarchist myself, the deposed, CIA installed, Pahvali was the son of a deposed peasant and the father of a traitor (something, to be fair, the other two Pahlavis weren't).

The F117 is a very stealthy plane, given its geometry (flat panels). Yet a 1960s radar with essentially no digital equipment took it out, largely using human intelligence and guerrilla tactics.

Iran has modern digital electronics (to improve the signal to noise ratio, merge different data sources, etc) and modern electronics. They are also master guerrilla fighters and have, great, native missile technology.

Iranian airspace is contested at best. We certainly do not have air superiority over it.

They don't need it though. Our top brass knew this war is stupid twenty years ago.

Without nukes we'll lose this war and badly.