witnesstheday

"Iran's attack defeats west - In the end the west is desperately happy to have oil prices start crawling back towards affordability, and China is just as glad - so let's face it - nobody with power can touch Iran unless they want their economy destroyed by Iran first." http://www.politicsdebate.co.uk/politics35.html

It is pretty obvious now that any further talk against Iran is just for the west's pride and for U.S. voters. Any foreign country attacking Iran is clearly going to create an economic catastrophe for a number of countries including China.

If the USA wanted to return Iran's "bring it on" attitude, it is highly likely that they would be surprised to discover China actually fighting the USA in the gulf with military force, since China's economy would depend on doing that under such circs. That's why China has negotiated for America to be silenced and told to go to hell while the rest of the world reassures Iran (and its many women and children) that no one is going to hurt any Iranians, so they don't need to stoke the fires of oil-apocalypse.

They could destroy the oil economy of the world inside an hour - i.e. by creating a problem which would take years to fix - they can blow up LOADS of oil inside a few minutes and they don't need nukes or long range missiles to do it. There is no country stupid enough to attack Iran other than the USA and it is likely that even the UK would have to join China in fighting against the USA if such an attack ever began.