It likely wouldn't be kinetic, but nukes didn't stop us from chipping away at the Soviet Union.

I could be wrong, but I don't buy the public story that this is about regime change. You don't topple a government with air superiority alone, and you don't do it in a matter of days. I also don't expect the US would be okay letting the Iranian people pick who comes next. We have a history of installing puppets and that similarly doesn't happen only via bombing runs.

> If Iran had deployable nukes, would they get invaded?

Honestly, maybe? Like if we had high confidence we knew where they were, and Israel consented to the attack, I could absolutely see the U.S. trying to take it out in storage.

If Iran had a nuke that could hit the U.S., I'd say no. But that's a stretch from "deployable nukes."

> Name a country that got bombed to credibly destroy the government, and had nukes

Pedantically, Ukraine.