Author: War Hu Bureau Extra-staff
Recently, the Iranian Revolutionary Guards launched dozens (Iran claimed that the United States has only 15) short-range ballistic missile attacked the US Air Force Base in Iraq Assad Air Force Base and another airport in retaliation for the US's raid to kill the "soul figure" of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Soleimani Major General. The attack caused no casualties. Most of the missiles missed. Of course, at least one missile hit the runway, and two hangars were blown up.
Iran claimed to have killed 80 American terrorists and injured 200 people. However, the United States and Iraq officially stated that there were no casualties. Pay attention to the word casualties, which means that neither one died nor one was injured.
When the United States is nervously evaluating the progress of the situation and preparing to take countermeasures, Iranian Foreign Minister Sharif quickly stated that Iran does not seek war and his self-defense operation has ended. At the same time, senior Iranian generals including Iranian supreme leader Khamenei still expressed their views: This was just a slap in the United States, and the revenge is far from over. As long as the United States does not withdraw from , the Middle East in one day, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard will continue to retaliate.
while US President Trump held a press conference and said at the beginning, "As long as I am still the president of the United States, Iran will never be allowed to have nuclear weapons ." At the same time, he also appeased the Americans: We have no casualties. All our soldiers were safe and our military base was only slightly damaged. At the same time, it announced an immediate additional punitive economic sanctions on Iran, but the United States will not use its military, he told the Iranian leader, "We are ready to embrace peace."
Both sides' statements are very interesting. Let's look at Iran's side first. Facing the situation of Soleimani, an important core figure of Iran's hardliner, being killed by the United States, the Iranian leader, who has always been favorable and revenge must take revenge to calm the anger of the people in China. However, facing the US military, which is on high alert, the revenge is too strong, causing casualties in the US military, especially major casualties, which will definitely cause the US counter-retaliation and even trigger the US-Iran war.
If 280 US troops were killed or injured as Iran reported, it would almost cause military operations such as Iraq War , and Iran is likely to perish. The Iranian leader is not a terrorist organization, but a proletarian with land and assets, and is not a "proletarian" like Al Qaeda. Therefore, unless it is absolutely necessary, it will not take the initiative to provoke the US military.
In this case, facing the extremely difficult economic situation in the country and a large number of citizens who are angry and disappointed with the current state of the country, the leadership of Iran should guide the people to their anger at the United States on the one hand, making people feel that the current difficult situation is the result of the evil US imperial sanctions and blockade, not institutional and policy issues. Enhance cohesion through disasters.
At the same time, the strength of the counterattack must be grasped well and the right amount should be grasped. It is extremely challenging the wisdom of the Iranian leadership to both retaliate and not to arouse US counter-retaliation. In response, Iran took the method of indirectly notifying the United States to take evasion measures by hinting in advance or notifying the Iraqi government. At the same time, in order to prevent it, it deliberately shot the target. To achieve the goal of not hurting people as much as possible.
This is what is called "Dare to fight or not is a matter of attitude, and whether to fight or not is a matter of ability."
While taking military action, Iran also publicly stated that the counterattack is limited and will be stopped after this time. It has tried to avoid the situation from escalating to out of control, which has not only caused the United States to lose its reason to fight back, but also responded to the demands of its citizens. At the same time, it also threatened that this is only the first phase of counterattack and there will be another future. As for when to fight back, it depends on the performance of the Americans.
I have to say that Iran has done a pretty good job in revenge on the Americans. It is a classic reasonable, favorable and concise counterattack. It is also one of the few countries that dares to publicly retaliate against the United States.
Speaking of Trump's speech, he said at the beginning that Iran must not possess nuclear weapons, which is also the bottom line of the United States. If Iran does not give up its efforts to develop nuclear weapons for a day, the relationship between Iran and the United States will not be truly improved, and Iran will face military strikes from the United States and Israel anytime and anywhere. This is the most sensitive, complex and difficult to deal with concerns between the US and Iran. But at least this time it was like this. For the United States, it was a bit unbearable. After all, this is one of the few military operations in history that dared to publicly launch large-scale attacks on US military facilities.
But Trump is a businessman, and his investment is very good at making a living, and face is not important. After all, the person who poses the greatest threat to the United States has been physically eliminated, and the person who thinks that the United States is a paper tiger once again clearly knows the American determination. In the future, we must consider it carefully when taking terrorist actions against American soldiers and Americans. At the same time, Soleimani's disappearance was also a heavy blow to Iran. It would definitely be a huge loss to build a Shiite arc and expand its influence in the Middle East.
However, this may also become a good thing. If Iran can recognize the general trend of the world, limit the extreme conservative forces in China, take pragmatic easing measures, concentrate on developing the economy carefully, and improve the deteriorating people's livelihood. As a representative of the tough and conservative forces, Soleimani will not die in vain, and Iran will not go all the way to darkness on the road of sinking, and may usher in a bright future. Although this will be difficult.
