Gen. Mohammad Ali Jafari, commander of Iran's Revolutionary Guard, gives a press conference in Tehran on Sunday, Sept. 16, 2012. He warned that "nothing will remain" of Israel if it takes military action against Iran over its controversial nuclear program. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
** FILE ** Ali Asghar Soltanieh, Iran's ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), waves on Sept. 10, 2012, as he arrives for a meeting of the IAEA board of governors at the International Center in Vienna, Austria. (Associated Press)
** FILE ** In this Thursday, Sept. 22, 2011, file photo, Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad addresses the 66th session of the United Nations General Assembly. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)
Ali Asghar Soltanieh (left), Iran's envoy to the International Atomic Energy Agency, talks with a foreign diplomat before the start of an expert-level meeting of the Non-Aligned Movement in Tehran on Sunday, Aug. 26, 2012. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
On Sunday, Aug. 12, 2012, an Iranian woman grieves for loved ones who were killed in Saturday's earthquake in the village of Bajebaj in northwestern Iran. (AP Photo/ISNA, Arash Khamoushi)
** File ** United States' Jordan Ernest Burroughs, celebrates after winning against Iran's Sadegh Saeed Goudarzi after the gold medal match at a 74-kg men's freestyle wrestling competition at the 2012 Summer Olympics, Aug. 10, 2012, in London. (Associated Press)
** FILE ** The U.S. Navy planned to send minesweepers and warships into the Persian Gulf in September 2012 for exercises intended to make Iran think twice about any attempts to block oil tanker traffic through the narrow waterway that links the region’s oil fields with world markets. (Associated Press)
** FILE ** Iranian oil technician Majid Afshari makes his way to the oil separator facilities in Iran's Azadegan oil field southwest of Tehran on April 15, 2008. (Associated Press)