As far as dealing with the current situation in Iran, how about this for a reply.
Tell Iran they 48 hours to release those sailors and marines or they will pay a stiff price. Then fly over Terran with a B-2 bomber and open the doors so it can be picked up on radar for a few seconds, take a couple of pictures and release those to the press with a statement that in 48 hours that plane will be back, and when it is detected on radar again it will be dropping off a few presents targeted on a few selected locations, like the idiot Iranian presidents home, the building where the ruling Islamic mullas hang out, that sort of thing.
Send a couple of F-22's along for escort and blow anything that gets within 50 miles of the bomber out of the sky.
When planes start popping up on their radars and then dissapear again without a trace, and then things just start blowing up around them, they might get the hint that we're not messing around anymore.