[Onkel Neal]

Originally Posted by Hitman

China has a special agreement with Iran to get oil from them, and will never allow that the country gets harassed by a war. They will vote "no", and if the US does something in Iran, they will not make an open war to them, but probably an echonomic one (If they release to the market the huge amount of external debt from the US they own, the dollar will collapse and the US will not have capacity to import anything). Iran is well aware of this, that's why they are acting like that.

Anyway, my belief is that Iran is just trying to make a provocation and abuse from the fact that China supports them. I don't think they will really do anything against Israel, but if an armed conflict starts, it will sure not involve DIRECTLY nor the US or China....it will be some kind of "underground" war. Doing it openly would be too risky, and also unnecessary.

I don't know, mate. This kind of thing could easily spiral into nuclear war. It would be a lot better if the civilized countries could stop wasting time and agree to impose limits on nuclear proliferation. This is dangerous ground.