User blog comment:Ty Rezac/world war III is near/@comment-4484790-20120222022222

Most likely the war would be started by Iran, due to threats to close the Strait of Hormuz, and the recent event in which an Iranian patrol boat came close to the USS Abraham Lincoln. If the war would start, America, along with Israel, NATO, and America's allies, surround Iran on all side, with military bases in Saudi Arabia, Turkey is NATO, forces in Afghanistan, and the US 5th Fleet in Bahrain. Russia wouldn't go to war, and China wouldn't want to go to war, due to it losing its main trading partnet: the US. The only countries most likely to support Iran would be Syria and Pakistan, but I doubt Pakistan would join in war, espically with the tensions with India.