Who's Behind Iran?

As the world focuses its attention on Iran, the media is missing one important player in this very dangerous scenario. Thanks to the press, we all know about the help that Russia gives to the Iranian mullahs, yet most of the world media has been very quite about maybe the largest supporter of the Islamic Republic, which goes by the name of the Peoples Republic of China.

While Russia provides Iran with the scientists and the technology to develop its nuclear program, it is China that has bankrolled Iran’s nuclear activities. Not only that, it is China that is the main supplier of Iranian arms, it is China that is Iran's largest trade partner, it is China that has helped to protect Iran's assets, and it is China that is protecting Iran at the UN.

The PRC while not wanting to have a disruption in its oil supply knows that the US would have a hard time winning a war with Iran. Even if US only conducts an air strike it will still have to face a retaliation by Iran that will most likely see a massive rise in terrorist activity in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Israel. It is this knowledge that is driving China to encourage Iran to develop nuclear weapons in order to act as the Chinese counterweight to America's nuclear armed ally Israel. This is the same scenario that the PRC has used with N. Korea being a counterweight to American South East Asian allies S. Korea and Japan.

In any scenario that the US chooses, from an air strike to doing nothing, it will end up in a weaker position in the Middle East and the world. This is exactly what China wants, as it uses an ancient Chinese military strategy of "death by a thousand cuts". If the US does not wake up to the communist Chinese threat, than regrettably the death will come much sooner then later.