Those options were open to the rest of the world since long before an old crippled man in wheel chair was tossed in the ocean to die. Nothing has changed. Ask the Hindi, the Buddhists, who have suffered far more than we in the west. Iran has underwritten and attacked through proxies, as have other muslim nations. Iran has been the worst. Iranians are arrested and deported from Indonesia, the most populated muslim nation in the world, because of the harm they have done there, as soon as they are detected. Muslims from no other nation are treated the same. China, which has no love of any western religions, has put its foot down on the neck of native muslims rather than accept their mayhem, and far more severely than those of any other religions.
Sanctions may topple the current aggressive muslim government in Iran, but they are just another form of diplomacy that will not change the reality that islam requires the submission of the world to the words of a long dead prophet who assumed the mantle of god. You should learn how and why, his motivations, and then recognize what the world faces with this militant religion. A religion with no axial moment discovering a forgiving god. You can declare your self as unbeliever of superstition, it will not change those who believe and their innate hate for you.
We are already in war not of our making. You are the target of the enemy, no matter how nice the people seem on a personal level when they drive you somewhere in a taxi, sell you a newspaper and chewing gum, or serve you halel barbecue street food. Kabobs are tasty, but the price is not about money.
