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Russia might provide some military support. China NO CHANCE. The Chinese don't intervene in military conflicts even Syrian crisis they never intervened whatsoever, not even to support Russia. At most they will use VETO in UNSC that's as far a support China will provide. They don't want to be involve in any foreign adventure unlike U.S, U.K, France, Russia, or to a lesser extent even regional powers like Iran, Turkey etc who have a long history of fighting wars or getting involved in military/proxy wars outside their immediate borders. The Chinese by contrast have no such policy/experience.I am not saying anyone would go to War with China , I am saying if the region goes into war ,than it will be a free for all , you can't follow up with every proxy or militia that has Missiles , who will attack who is yet to be seen but mark my words if a war breaks out China and Russia will have to intervene , if they can do it in Syria they can do it in Iran as well .
The ones that should be worried about their country being "completely destroyed" are you lot with that fire at the moment. Those Hollywoodesque scenarios regarding US power are for your entertainment only and not real world reference.
No rival/enemy country in the region or even the world has the capability to target US territory per se.(apart maybe from Russia and some extent China). So the most Iran can do is target some U.S bases in the region close to Iran. However, the problem is that even doing will so will attract massive retaliation from the US, just look at how the U.S retaliated after their base in Iraq was targeted and only 1 U.S military contractor was killed(those Iran backed forces suffered paid 10x more the price). The U.S has complete air superiority over Iran as well. In fact, Iran barely has a credible air force to talk about. Iran should really improve their air-force with modern fighter jets, but i don't see even that happening this decade either.
I think Iran's best strategy will be through proxy by using its militias and fifth columns in the region to attack U.S forces/bases in the region. A direct approach will raise the stakes much higher and embolden the U.S even more to retaliate. At least non state actors makes it difficult or conventional world powers to target/pinpoint them precisely unlike state actors which are more open/easy to target. This is especially even more the case given the massive imbalance of power. So an asymmetrical kind of warfare needs to be used when you know you are weaker and no match to a more powerful enemy in a frontal confrontation. Saddam's military is a very good example of why it's not a good idea to fight the U.S head on or conventional, you will be crush if you do so. No country is a match for the U.S militarily today, not even Russia and China. So Iran needs to use indirect/asymmetrical means.
LOL A militias warning a country's military/security forces to stay away from certain parts of a country;s own capital city? lol
Shows how low Iraq's military has fallen(if there is any to speak of. lol ).
It's like Al Shebab warning Somalia's military/security forces to stay away from parts of Mogadishu. Guess Iraq and Somalia are the same level now. lol
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