The Teheran regime is not completely isolated by the major powers of the world. Russia and particularly China claim that new sanctions, and even more so, a military intervention, would not solve the situation in Iran. "Sanctions can not fundamentally fix the problem of the Iranian nuclear program", a spokesperson of the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs said, while Iran is being threatened once again with retaliatory measures. The country immediately responded after the publication of the report of the International Atomic Energy Agency (AIEA), which accuses Teheran of attempting to develop atomic weapons.
After a war of statements, at the highest level, everything has now come to concrete threats. Ten American officers will be killed in Iraq and Afghanistan, if the US assassinates a single Iranian officer, a high ranking Iranian officer, quoted by Fars, said, in response to a proposal to assassinate Iranian military officials made by American experts. "A bunch of empty headed American leaders who seem to suffer from Alzheimer's disease, threaten the commanders of the Revolutionary Guards with assassination [...] You should not forget that American commanders are present in Afghanistan, Iraq and the countries of the region. If you kill one of us, we will kill tens of you", said general Amir Ali Hadjizadeh, Revolutionary Guards Air and Space commander. Some of the American experts said in a hearing before Congress, at the end of October, that the United States should assassinate commanders of the Guardians of the revolution. Jack Keane, former commander of the Joint Staff of the American Land Forces, made this shocking proposal: "These people have killed almost a thousand of our people. Why not assassinate them? I am not suggesting military action, I am proposing covert operations".
Prior to the publication of the report, some of the Western diplomats he
