I doubt they could find many allies. The only thing that the middle east has going for it is oil and most of it likes selling it to us. Iran has some kind of Napoleon complex or some shit. At least since the caliphate took control. They have the straight and Allah. We have a desire for oil and a whole fleet of vessels deployed there at all times. Truthfully we could probably just glass them and there would be some huge international uproar to save face, but in the end the rest of the world would be like eh. I'd really like them to piss off China. That would be fun times a bazillion.