The Middle East is called the "land of the Three Continents and Five Seas" - the Middle East topographic map
The Middle East is called the "land of the Three Continents and Five Seas". The so-called Three Continents refer to Asia, Europe and Africa. The Five Seas refer to Caspian Sea , the Black Sea, the Mediterranean Sea, the Red Sea and Persian Gulf - this is an important strategic location! Everyone knows that the Middle East is a powder keg, and many people can more or less say a few reasons. For example, religious contradictions, historical contradictions, and various games carried out by major powers outside the region to control oil. A key factor in the Middle East is Iran .
Iran Plateau
Iran is a frontier country of the Iran Plateau. It is located in the heart of West Asia in southwestern Asia. It is close to the Caspian Sea in the north and the Persian Gulf and the Arabian Sea in the south. It connects Central Asia in the east and Europe in the west. It guards Strait of Hormuz . It has a vast territory and a dangerous terrain. It is known as the "Eurasian Land Bridge" and the "Eastern and West Air Corridor". Its important geostrategic location, rich oil and gas resources, and historical religious and cultural heritage determine its important position as a major power in the Middle East and the Gulf region.
Iran's surrounding
Iran's east neighbor Pakistan and Afghanistan , the northeast borders Turkmenistan , the northwest borders Azerbaijan and Armenia , and the western border Turkey and Iraq . Most of Iran's territory is on the plateau and belongs to a plateau country, with an altitude of generally between 900 and 1,500 meters. The west and southwest are the wide Zagros Mountain system, accounting for about half of the country's land area. The central part is a dry basin, forming many deserts, including the Cavere Desert and the Lute Desert, and there are only a small area of alluvial plains along the Persian Gulf coast in the southwest and the Caspian Sea coast in the north.
Iranian Plateau-Desert
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guarantees the natural strategic barrier of the Asian continent
Iranian Plateau geopolitical structure
In Southwest Asia geopolitics, the Zagros Mountains eastward is connected to Hindu Kush Mountain , and then connects with Himalayas in the north of India, and together with the Iranian Plateau and Qinghai-Tibet Plateau , forming the world's most magnificent natural strategic barrier of the "Zagros-Hindu Kush-Himalaya" that protects the "hub area" of the Asian continent from the west to the east. It was precisely with this strategic barrier that, except for the medieval Arab rule, Iran had been dismembered into several Iranian plateau countries in ancient and modern times (including all Iran and Afghanistan, parts of Pakistan, etc.), but these countries eventually successfully resisted the invasion of Western powers and avoided the doom of being completely colonized like India. Because India was blocked from this strategic barrier and was colonized by Britain for a long time in modern times, it eventually became the "Orphan of the Fog City" thrown in South Asia by the suzerain country Britain.
Iran-Tehran
Iran's geopolitical position and situation have great "bridgehead" significance for China's western security. In history, the security of a certain country's western border has been under pressure from Europe to the strong eastward expansion for a long time. For example, the Alexander Expedition in the ancient Greek era, the eastern expansion of the Roman Empire, the crusades in the medieval European era, as well as modern Europe, Tsarist Russia, , the Soviet Union and even the United States entering the 21st century, have all carried out strong invasions of the Iranian plateau countries. Without exception, the invasion of these foreign powers was rejected outside the Iranian plateau or consumed in large quantities in the Iranian plateau.
Iranian Plateau countries are the strategic barrier for China's western security
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8 The first "firewall" for Asian western security
Not only that, the Iranian Plateau countries and a certain country are closely linked to the "Zagros-Hindukush-Himalaya" strategic barrier. In this way, Iran, a country located at the westernmost end of the barrier, actually becomes the first "firewall" for a certain country's western security. Their fate of resisting the struggle of Western powers is dependent on the security of the western front: if Iran is crushed, then the strong Western forces advancing eastward, either sea or land, will be forced along the ancient Silk Road (which forms today's "Eurasian Continental Bridge" on this geographical basis), and pose a major threat to the western front.
Iran and surrounding
During the Han Dynasty in my country, the power of the Roman Empire to expand eastward was denied from the western border of the Aishi Empire, which greatly alleviated the strategic pressure on the western border; probably due to the same strategic demand, the Western Regions envoy sent by Emperor Wu of Han, Zhang Qian , specially sent his deputy to visit the Aishi Empire in 119 BC. The Aishi King was excited to send 20,000 cavalry to welcome the Chinese envoy. This shows that the Aishi Kingdom and the Han Dynasty had a strategic need for mutual dependence at that time.
Persian dynasty
Also, due to the steep terrain of Xingdu Kush Mountain, the Afghan people also implemented extremely tenacious resistance to the British colonists, making Britain unable to approach north, let alone go deep into the weak areas in the western frontier of a certain country, colluding with Aguber pseudo-power chaos; and the barrier of the Himalayas in the world's highest peak made Britain unable to effectively intervene in the north from the northern border of India for more than a hundred years of occupation of India: on August 3, 1904, Britain was captured, but in winter, the British were forced to withdraw to India because they could not survive the high cold weather. The British thus gained the experience of "not easy to enter, making any action to strengthen military resistance to a certain country unrealistic."
Iran Plateau-Central Asia Geoparietal
This experience is not without it for the United States, the successor of the British world hegemony: In 1950, the Americans wanted to provide insurgents with combat equipment for half a year. Since "livestock transport is the only practical means of transportation, the above-mentioned ammunition requires about 7,000 mules to transport. Since there are not so many mules available, some or all of the 3-inch caliber mortars and ammunition may not be transported from India."
The large-depth protective belt on the western front formed by the "Zagros-Hindukush-Himalaya" mountain system made modern West unable to effectively restrain the southwest land even after occupying India, and had to detour along the coast. In other words, this protective barrier not only greatly delayed the time of the West's invasion since the Rome empire, but also weakened - compared with India - its influence on a certain country. By the same token, it was the Huns who were condescending to the west that had no such plateau barrier along the way that they could have taken the lead - compared with the speed of Rome's eastward advance - to Europe, and forced the Germans who might be moving eastward to move south, and eventually crushed the Roman Empire.
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Iran's plateau countries are resisting " NATO eastward expansion "
In comparison, India, which is under the above-mentioned "Zagros-Hindukush-Himalaya" screen protection, and the low terrain, is more susceptible to external invasion. The Indian plains account for about 2/5 of the total area of the country, with mountainous land only 1/4 and plateaus accounting for 1/3, but most of these mountainous lands and plateaus do not exceed 1,000 meters above sea level. The low and gentle terrain has an absolute advantage in the country, not only convenient transportation but also rich. The gentle terrain at low altitude greatly weakened the Indians' ability to resist foreign invasions and was therefore occupied by foreign tribes for a long time.
Iranian terrain
It is worth noting that the researchers of border history are Alexander the Great who invaded India, the Mongols and British who occupied India in the Middle Ages, and even the Indians who had already gained national independence in 1962, cannot and has shaken the southwestern border at the foot of the towering Himalayas.
Iran
Such historical experience supports us to conclude that the plateau countries with Iran as the frontier are plateau countries with Iran rather than India: Yesterday, Iranian plateau countries rather than India successfully resisted the eastern expansion of the Roman Empire, and today they rather than India are resisting and consuming "NATO eastern expansion".
Persian Gulf-Caspiano Oil
Therefore, the anti-hegemony struggle of Iranian plateau countries, not just India, has great and far-reaching significance for China's national security. If we consider the huge dependence on crude oil imports in Iranian plateau countries, the security of Iranian plateau countries - of course, the premise for this judgment is that Central Asia does not have historical conditions like the medieval Arab Empire - it has more strategic value than India to a certain country.
