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It is pointless to worry about who killed the Iranian nuclear scientist who was the victim of a carefully planned attack near Tehran on Friday.
It could have been the American secret service - just like the Israeli, the Saudi, and a few others.
The latter services in particular, whose governments are currently in the process of forming a kind of Middle Eastern NATO against Iran, feel threatened by the machinations of Tehran.
For them one thing is certain: Iran wants to become a nuclear power.
That is exactly what they want to prevent.
But whoever it was, they are not so naive as to believe that such attacks could seriously deter the Iranian regime from its intentions.
Neither the assassinations - four nuclear experts have been killed in Iran since 2010 - nor the large-scale cyberattack with the aid of the Stuxnet virus, and certainly not the bomb attacks on the nuclear facilities in Natanz and Isfahan, have broken the Iranians' resolve.
So what is it about today?
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A look at those who commented critically on the attack provides information.
In addition to the Iranian government, these are people from the environment of the elected American President Joe Biden.
His advisors immediately understood what this attack was about.
Whoever murdered Mohsen Fachrisadeh wanted to thwart the resumption of negotiations, which Biden's advisers had described as desirable after his election victory.
Its aim is to re-enact the revised form of the agreement with Tehran, which was largely concluded by Barack Obama.
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Donald Trump had unilaterally terminated it in 2018 to the applause of Israel and Saudi Arabia.
So the main thing is to torpedo the democratic president's new Middle East strategy.
It can best be disrupted if Tehran feels provoked and now strikes on its part.
The shortest connection between two points is sometimes the detour.