Iran has always been a country that makes the United States extremely unwilling to accept it.
On September 11, 2001, three planes hit the United States' World Trade Center and Pentagon , shocking the world in one fell swoop, which completely broke the peace of the United States. Less than a month after the incident, the United States directly announced military action against Afghanistan , and the " Afghan War " broke out.
Although the United States is explicitly going to take revenge, after all, Afghan Taliban is very likely to be the mastermind behind this incident, so the United States launched the Afghan war in an attempt to completely eliminate Taliban . In fact, the United States has a bigger plan, and their more important purpose is to take Afghanistan and then further control , the Middle East, .
On March 20, 2003, the United States launched the Iraq War as a reason that it contained weapons of mass destruction. As the saying goes, "If you want to add a crime, you will have no trouble." The United States launched the Iraq War purely to control the situation in Iraq. After all, Saddam was unwilling to cooperate with the United States. More than ten years later, the United States admitted that the original "weapons of destruction" were nothing more than laundry detergent, and they used this as an excuse to attack Iraq.
After the United States launched two wars, Iran was the most nervous. From a geographical point of view, Afghanistan is on the east side of Iran, while Iraq is on the west side of Iran, which also means that after the United States controls Iraq and Afghanistan, it has formed a situation of encirclement against Iran.
Although the United States has not launched military operations against Iran, there are certainly many reasons, but the United States must still want to control Iran. However, Iran has been resolutely confronting the United States since Khomeini . After Khomeini Khamenei continued this route, making Iran always a heart disease for the United States in the Middle East.
In fact, before 2008, the United States' strategic focus was on the Middle East, and the purpose of launching the two wars was to strengthen its control in the Middle East. During this period, the United States' goal was considered part of it. After all, Iraq and Afghanistan were basically controlled by the United States, but due to the existence of Iran, the United States' Middle East strategy was unable to be connected.
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As we all know, since the collapse of , the United States has been trying to dominate the world. Of course, the United States also has its own means to realize its ambitions. In fact, the United States' hegemony cannot do without three aspects: US dollar, military and technology.
After World War II , the world financial system was re-established. After discussion, Western countries launched the " Bretton Woods System ", which means that the US dollar is directly linked to gold, and then the currencies of countries around the world are exchanged with the US dollar, which forms a world financial system with the US dollar as the settlement currency. However, the "Bretton Woods System" did not continue and suffered a collapse in 1971.
The collapse of the "Bretton Woods System" is also multiplied, but the most important point is that the United States consumed a lot of money in Korean War and Vietnam War . They had to turn on the printing machine to print money in a large amount, but the gold reserves in the United States are limited. When the gold reserves in the United States are not enough to support the value of the US dollar, it means that there is a crisis in the "Bretton Woods System". At the same time, Western countries are also worried about the US dollar. French President Charles de Gaulle even transported the gold reserved in the United States back to China, further exacerbating the crisis of the US dollar. Finally in 1971, the United States had to announce the decoupling of the US dollar from gold.
However, it is impossible for the United States to give up its important international status as the US dollar. So how to make the US dollar continue to be recognized by the whole world is an extremely critical issue! Ultimately, the United States will focus on oil!
As we all know, oil is called the lifeblood of industry. Any country will inevitably be unable to move without oil. Therefore, the United States thinks that if oil is bound to the US dollar, the US dollar will inevitably continue its irreplaceable position. The main exporter of oil is in the Middle East. If the major oil exporters in the Middle East agree to settle oil in the US dollar, the status of the US dollar will be stable.
In July 1974, under the appointment of Nixon , the new US Treasury Secretary went to Saudi Arabia with the purpose of negotiating with the Saudi government. requires Saudi Arabia to use the US dollar as the only settlement currency for oil trade and purchase large amounts of US Treasury bonds.
Of course, as the proactive party in negotiations, the United States must provide sufficient conditions to make Saudi Arabia tempted so that the negotiations can continue. As expected, in order to achieve the purpose of binding the US dollar and oil, the United States also offered tempting conditions for Saudi Arabia:
First, provide Saudi Arabia with a large amount of arms to help Saudi Arabia train its troops, and ensure that Israel will no longer cause trouble for Saudi Arabia in the future; second, vigorously support Saudi Arabia in economic and political terms, provide Saudi Arabia with a large amount of economic aid and consolidate the dominance of the Saudi royal family.
The United States also refused to give up until it achieved its goal. It was difficult to reach a consensus at the beginning of negotiations, but the United States continued to threaten and induce people, which eventually made Saudi Arabia willing to cooperate with the United States. In the end, Saudi Arabia reached an "unshakable agreement" with the United States. Saudi Arabia's oil exports were settled in US dollars, and the proceeds of selling oil were used to purchase US Treasury bonds in exchange for all-round support from the United States in military, economic and political aspects.
Since Saudi Arabia, the big boss in the Middle East, agreed to cooperate with the United States, other oil exporting countries in the Middle East have also followed suit, settled in US dollars in oil exports, and then purchased US bond in US dollars, which has allowed the "petroleum dollar" circulation mechanism dominated by the United States to take shape.
However, the emergence of the euro in 1999 began to challenge the hegemony of the dollar again. With the emergence of the euro, the Russian and Iraqi Saddam regime began to use the euro to settle oil trade, and EU countries also began to follow suit, after all, this is conducive to expanding the influence of the euro. However, the United States will never want to see oil settlement with the euro. After all, the United States wants to bind oil in the Middle East to the US dollar in order to ensure the stability of the US dollar and maintain the US financial hegemony.
Since the oil dollar is facing threats, the United States is not ruthless and directly launched two wars in the Middle East. On the one hand, can completely put the Middle East into chaos, which also has an impact on the stability of the euro; on the other hand, it directly launches a military strike on Iraq, which is to warn Middle Eastern countries that if they dare to use other currencies as oil settlement currencies, they will be enemies with the United States and the United States will never be ruthless!
After this series of wars, the United States has indeed stabilized the hegemony of the US dollar, and has also hit Russia's power in the Middle East, allowing the United States to further control the Middle East. In fact, the United States has only the last tough bone left after its complete control of the Middle East, that is Iran!
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2 The United States has great ambitions for controlling the Middle East. After all, thorough control of the Middle East has made the United States hegemony more stable. For this reason, the United States has arranged heavy troops in Persian Gulf to control Strait of Hormuz . The United States also defends the hegemony of the US dollar with its own military power.
For the United States, if it can take Iran, then the United States can extend its sphere of influence from Iraq to Afghanistan, but Iran is not so easy to deal with.
In fact, before Khomeini launched the Iranian revolution in 1979, Iran's Pahlavi dynasty was extremely close to the United States. At that time, the Pahlavi dynasty also advocated the construction of Iran into a secular country. Although the Pahlavi dynasty promoted the rapid development of Iran's economy in the process of implementing reforms, it also caused a serious gap between the rich and the poor. Especially in the last few years of the Pahlavi dynasty, Iran's economic strength and military strength were second to none in the Middle East, but there was a huge crisis in Iran.
The Pahlavi Dynasty underestimated the power of religious people too much. Due to the intensification of conflicts between the two sides, Khomeini called on the people to overthrow the Pahlavi Dynasty in 1979, and it was finally successful.Under Khomeini's leadership, Iran became a country that integrates politics and religion. In fact, in Iran, the influence of the sect is still above the political parties! After Khomeini became the leader of Iran, Iran's relations with the United States deteriorated. After all, when Khomeini led the Iranian revolution, he always claimed that "the Pahlavi dynasty was the lackey of the United States". If Khomeini established relations with the United States again, it would be slap himself in the face.
40 years ago, Iran has been at the forefront of the anti-US struggle. Although this route has caused Iran to be suppressed and has also put Iran in many ways, Iran has never surrendered to the United States.
As the United States launched the Afghan War and the Iraq War one after another, around 2005, Iran faced tremendous pressure, which came from geopolitical areas. After all, both sides of the east and west were invaded by the United States, so the United States is likely to take measures against Iran in the future. In order to cope with the pressure from the United States, Iran did not hesitate to claim that it had mastered the nuclear technology , which made Western countries extremely nervous in one fell swoop. It is obvious that Iran’s release of this explosive news at this time is nothing more than a countermeasure to the US threat. Later, Iran’s nuclear issue has always become an uncertain factor in the Middle East. In order to put pressure on Iran, the United States not only imposes economic sanctions on Iran, but also isolates diplomatically and encircles militaryally. All this has also caused Iran to encounter a considerable dilemma.
Of course, the United States' suppression of Iran actually has an important purpose:
First, control Iran's oil exports.
U.S. sanctions have largely restricted Iran's oil exports, which has put the pressure on Iran, which relies on oil exports, to the same extent as Russia, which has also made their economic situation worse. Originally, after the 1990s, Iran's economic development went downhill, and coupled with the US sanctions, Iran's economic difficulties were particularly prominent.
Restriction of Iran's oil exports is particularly important for the United States. After all, as the only major country in the Middle East that does not cooperate with the hegemony of the US dollar, the United States must restrict it, otherwise Iran will inevitably challenge the authority of the oil dollar. Therefore, no matter what excuse the United States uses to take measures against Iran, its purpose is to limit Iran's oil exports and maintain its dollar status.
In addition, it makes it difficult for the euro to challenge the US dollar.
In order to maintain the status of the US dollar, the United States has launched more than once to attack the euro, including the 1999 Kosovo War , which means that the United States intends to create wars in Europe to achieve the goal of attacking the euro, and the Iraq War is no exception. At the beginning, the Saddam regime wanted to use the euro as the settlement currency of oil, and the United States took direct action, causing the war in Iraq to rush into chaos, and the Saddam regime was also overthrown, and Iraq subsequently "changed the world."
In fact, the relationship between the EU and Iran is quite good, and the trade between the two sides is also very frequent. Before the United States imposed sanctions on Iran, the trade volume between the EU and Iran had exceeded 20 billion euros. For example, Germany and France also have a huge market in Iran, and Iran's oil is also what the EU needs, and the trade between the two sides can be settled in the euro. However, with the pressure from the United States, this beautiful situation in the EU has been completely broken, and the EU's lack of backbone performance in front of the United States has forced them to follow the pace of the United States. Of course, the EU has never given up its ties with Iran and has always played the role of a middleman between the United States and Iran.
Furthermore, block Russia's southern gate.
For Russia, Iran's existence is of great significance. Russia can go directly to the Middle East and Africa through Iran, and then control Black Sea , affecting Central and Southern Asia. It can be said that Iran is the only strategic channel for Russia to move south.
With the pressure from the United States on Iran, Russia's southward passage will inevitably be blocked, which is also impossible for Russia to accept, which greatly weakens Russia's influence in the Middle East. Therefore, the pressure on the United States on Iran has also made Russia feel threatened, and Russia cannot be slaughtered by others, so they must also support Iran and maintain strategic channels.
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Originally, according to the US's thinking, they would definitely completely conquer Iran, the "thorn" of this "thorn". Only Iran and the United States remain in the Middle East, but the United States has never taken military action against Iran!
first, Iran's strength cannot be underestimated, and the terrain is relatively complex, so the United States may not have a chance of winning.
In the Middle East, Iran is an absolute major country, and its military strength is not bad, especially with a large number of missiles. If the US military insists on taking a tough attack, Iran will definitely respond with all its strength. Moreover, Iran has a complex terrain, easy to defend and difficult to attack, but the United States is not good at mountain combat. For example, it is directly pushing against Iraq, which has obvious effect, but it lasts for 20 years when it encounters Afghanistan and eventually retreats in disgrace. It can be seen that when the United States encounters complex mountains, it often finds difficult to play its advantages, which is one of the reasons why they have some concerns about Iran.
Second, the United States cannot find a reason to send troops!
Although Iran has always been enemies with the United States, it has not directly interfered in the interests of the United States, which has made the United States unable to find a suitable excuse. Although the United States has also taken sanctions against Iran because of the Iran nuclear issue, even so, the EU has been unwilling to implement it. If it sends troops to Iran with a "false" excuse, it will inevitably arouse disgust from other countries. Besides, the United States has created a lot of wars in the Middle East, from the Afghan War, to the Iraq War, to the Syrian War, and . If we use military force against Iran again, it will not be good for the United States' international reputation. As of now, the United States will not take extreme measures unless Iran sends troops to block the Strait of Holmoz.
Third, the United States is afraid of Russia.
In the Middle East, the competition between the United States and Russia has never stopped. In the Syrian War, the two sides fought, and the United States did not end well in the end! Compared with Syria , Iran has a greater influence in the Middle East, and Russia attaches great importance to it. After all, Iran is Russia's strategic path to the Middle East, and it cannot be missed. Therefore, once the United States uses military force against Iran, Russia will inevitably participate. In terms of strength, although the United States has the advantage, Russia is by no means a vegetarian, and the United States is also afraid of them.
Although I didn’t think about connecting the sphere of influence in the Middle East, Iran is a hurdle they can’t overcome! These reasons make the United States dare not make a decision easily, so Iran has also become the most uneasy factor in the Middle East that makes the United States the most uneasy. In fact, the United States' various actions in the Middle East have also triggered defenses from other countries and pushed Iran to cooperate with Russia and China. The means of solving problems with force advocated by the United States are actually difficult to work!
In fact, the United States' strategic advancement in the Middle East has always been stuck by Iran, making it difficult for them to make any difference. It is precisely Iran's hard bone that has not been eaten, which has led to the United States' subsequent withdrawal from Iraq and Afghanistan. Just imagine, if the United States eats Iran, the United States will go straight in the Middle East, and even the world pattern will change.
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To a certain extent, the reason why the United States proposed the "return to the Asia-Pacific" strategy in November 2011 is that their progress in the Middle East has been hindered.
On the one hand, the war between Iraq and Afghanistan has become a protracted war, which has consumed a lot of US funds. , especially the Afghan war, the United States has been deeply involved in it, investing a lot of manpower, material resources and financial resources, but has never been able to completely eliminate the Taliban. The United States is also quite helpless about this. Seeing that they are facing the Vietnam War again, they urgently need to withdraw. Therefore, the US government also decided to withdraw from the two wars in Afghanistan and Iraq from now on, while seeking new highlights of foreign policy.
On the other hand, Iran's existence makes the United States particularly uncomfortable in its Middle East strategy. The United States' determination in the Middle East is extremely firm. After all, this is about the hegemony of the US dollar. Although Saudi Arabia and other countries still cooperate with the United States, Iran does not cooperate, which also makes the United States extremely angry. This is why the United States firmly wants to impose sanctions on Iran and threatens to "not let Iran sell a drop of oil, and not let Iran export earn 1 dollar foreign exchange." Only by resolutely blocking Iran's oil exports can the dollar hegemony be maintained to the greatest extent. Although the US sanctions on Iran have achieved certain results, the failure to control them has also made the United States worry. Once Iran cooperates with Europe, Russia and China, it will inevitably challenge the hegemony of the US dollar. In fact, Iran has acted like this now. Not long ago, Iran signed a 25-year cooperation agreement with China, which is also a breakthrough made by Iran.
is obvious. It is precisely because Iran is facing huge resistance that the United States has had to turn its strategic focus to the Asia-Pacific. After all, China's rise has made the United States feel greater pressure.
can only be said that the US hegemony does not conform to the trend of the development of the times. The Middle East strategy has setbacks and China's rise has made it difficult for the United States to deal with. Although the United States tries every means to encircle China, Russia and Iran, this strategy will only make the relationship between China, Russia and Iran closer, and these three countries will make the United States feel worried.
In the future, Iran should strengthen further cooperation with China. As long as both countries are strong and Russia further pressures, the United States will inevitably be difficult to take care of each other from beginning to end. Not only will the strategy be hindered, but the hegemony of the US dollar will also be shaken.
Now the three most feared points of the United States have emerged, in Russia in Europe, Iran in the Middle East and China in Asia! These three points will inevitably determine the end of American hegemony!
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