Garden Rose -- and as for your second link ( http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2011/12/14/china-is-helping-to-arm-iran-and-sidestep-sanctions-thanks-to-assist-from-north/ ) -- by citing that source, are you also accepting its 'so much for the theory Iran isn't pursuing nuclear weapons and advanced missile systems to deliver them' content? -- if that content is correct, then we'd damned well better blow up their shit if they don't shift direction hard and fast -- . . . China has sold weapons to Iran forever -- that's a far cry from jumping into a situation between us and Iran gone hot -- as your first source ( http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=73900917 ) actually makes quite clear, in spite of its title