welcome to the new world disorder:
north korea is the proxy state of china.
china can't maintain economic ties with the developed world while selling weapons. so, it has north korea do its dirty work.
The situation in Iran is ripe for a coup overthrowing the mullah's bloody brutal regimé, but 'assistance' from outside sources is mandatory. A full blockage of Iranian oil attempting to exit the Persian Gulf is another option to bring the Tehran dictatorship to it's economic knees.
Iranian police officers help a colleague who was hit by a stone on his head by hard-line students in front of the British Embassy in Tehran, on Monday, Nov. 29th, 2004. Some 200 Iranian hard-line students on Monday staged a protest in front of the British Embassy, throwing Molotov cocktails and stones toward the main gate and the mission's building to protest 'the killing of innocent Muslims' in the restive Iraqi city of Fallujah. (AP Photo/Hasan Sarbakhshian) (For every hard-core Iranian jihadist there are 10 who will fight for a free Iran.)
Iranian anti riot police officers stand guard as the fire of a petrol bomb reportedly thrown by hard-line students is seen in front of the British Embassy in Tehran, Monday, Nov. 29th, 2004.
Iranians chant slogans as one of them holds a photo of Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khameini during a demonstration in front of the British Embassy in Tehran, on Monday, Nov. 29th, 2004. (How much did the mullahs pay these fools to 'protest'?)
Iranian anti riot police officers stand guard to protect the British Embassy in Tehran, Monday, Nov. 29th, 2004.
An Iranian demonstrators burns US and British flags during a demostration in front of British embassy in Tehran on Monday 11-29-04