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Which is essentially what most of the strikes are about. the military also issued consistent communiques over the weekend talking about how they're going to dissolve the parliament and suspend the constitution and try to keep the government functioning, the government that was just put in place by mubarak before he left with the military watching what they're doing to keep the country functioning. we've seen over the past two or three days a steady stream of pronouncements by l military government, the military leaders essentially trying to reassure the public they are in charge and things wil...

They are the ones who are preventing even deeper sanctions versus iran for the simple reason that china is largely dependent on iran for much of its oil. in fact, china is one of the top importers of iranian oil trying to keep their country functioning and fully employed. china was the number one importer of iranian oil until just last month when india who was also desperate to bring oil into their country actually found a way to sneak around the iranian sanctions and begin to bring oil into their country from iran. so you've got the leverage to intervene with iran with china. theoretically le...