China says it opposes threatening Iran with war | Reuters

China says it opposes threatening Iran with war | Reuters: "The United States, Germany, France, Britain, Russia and China have backed two rounds of U.N. sanctions against Iran over its refusal to halt uranium enrichment and other sensitive work that could be used to make nuclear weapons."

And why do you think this is? Because China is a HUGE supplier to Iran of technology, building supplies and other goods that support Iran's nuclear efforts.

[UPDATE 2007 Sept 19] This could get really bad. News agencies are reporting that Iran is sabre-rattling toward Israel. So then, we'd have Iran, allied with China, and Israel, allied with the US, all nuclear-armed and all pissed off.

Does anyone remember how World War One started? Same type of meaningless regional dispute involving tiny countries, which dragged the major powers into a huge conflagration killing millions. And the WMD of that day was the newly-invented machine gun. Only this one might be World War Last.

Imagine Iran being the cause of the end of the world. This is now a plausible scenario.