And of course there is absolutely no middle ground between open collaboration with the CIA, handing over control of your country's oil exports and delivering prisoners to the US on one hand and defeating the US militarily on the other. Those are your only options.
Also no one except Iran has done any resistance, there are no smaller groups that have resisted US imperalism under much worse conditions to draw upon for the types of resistance you could do except shoot at them, no one except Iran has ever told Trump no. And hey, the DPRK isn't real, and the Houthis are imaginary while we're at it.