How likely is a third world war? part 3

WWIII scenarios | Features & Opinion | RIA Novosti: "'Existing disputes show that there is potential for war,' Sivkov said. In his opinion, there is a fifty-fifty chance of a local war in the Middle East (the military operation in Libya being a vivid example). Experts cannot rule out that the United States will opt for a military strike against Iran, although most likely it would not initiate the war but rather would be part of a NATO peacekeeping force operating in highly probable conflicts between Iran and Israel or Iran and Saudi Arabia. 'In any event there will be a showdown between Iran and the United States sooner or later,' said Grigory Tishchenko, head of the defense policy department at the Russian Institute of Strategic Studies."