Yeah, I agree, at least if they want to attempt a 'sane' plan.

'Baluchistan'.

There's a semi-significant port / naval base at ... Konarak? Konark?

That would make much more sense, or somewhere near it, for an MEU or two to try and establish as a beachhead.

The US's NeoCon/CIA playbook has long been to try to induce Iran to shatter apart, balkanize:

Apparently Richard Perle presented this or something like this map to Netanyahu, decades ago now.

Konarak (sp?) is maybe ~150 miles / ~250 km west of where Gwadar is, on the NeoCon map.