From Alastair Crooke's latest piece on Telegram. His idea about a Russo Chinese guarantee is a good one. I'd thought the same thing.

'How then might Iran be reassured of an end to conflict and an end to the threats of future wars? Iran might only be reassured if some way were to be found to tie American and Israeli hands in respect to further rounds of war on Iran — although how would Israeli hands be tied? Only (presumably) by cutting financial, munitions and intelligence support for Tel Aviv.

'And that would imply firstly ‘revolution’ in the global US-Israeli structural relationship, and secondly, a different President.

'Could an alternative be some sort of Sino-Russian guarantee of direct intervention were there to be further military escalation? Such a prospect would imply a new global concert of powers — an event that would seem premature at this juncture of time with the US engaged in hostilities of various types and on different planes with both China and Russia, which themselves are escalating and not diminishing.'