Iran has told the United States through intermediaries that any strike on its own soil would cross a red line and provoke reprisals on American targets in the region, according to a report, as the world holds its breath to see how will respond to the killing of three U.S. soldiers by Iranian-backed militias.Biden on Tuesday said he had already made his decision regarding reprisals for the deaths on Sunday.He spent Monday sequestered with his military and national security advisers weighing up a range of options drawn up and debated over decades: among them striking Iranian assets in the Persian Gulf; taking on Iran-backed militias in and ; launching a cyberattack and - the most fraught option - launching strikes on Iranian territory, to take out commanders and key military sites.
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