For scale, population:
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Iran: 81m
Iraq: 38m
Afgan: 35m
Vietnam (during Vietnam war) 38m
N Korea (during Korean war): 10m
Iran would be the largest nation we have been at war with since WWII and we know how Iraq and Vietnam turned out vs half the population.