Boiling Iran

US tension with Iran is only increasing day by day. US has stepped up the rhetoric, making it clear that they are looking beyond the nuclear programme issue. Iran's involvement in the Mohammad cartoon controversy made that obvious already. Read about the strategy of the United States to understand what's going on underneath the surface.

Russia and China are still hoping to defuse the tension. Of course, it's not all well-intentioned. Check out the Chinese reasoning. This article even talks about Sino-US confrontation in Middle East -- reminds me of the Cold War! As if we didn't have enough trouble in the world already, we have one more irritant in the form of North Korea.