Recently, the air-to-air competition between Western countries and Russia on the situation in Ukraine has shifted to the topic of drones. Russia is accused of deploying drones in large quantities, destroying nearly one-third of Ukraine's power facilities. According to Western media, these drones are provided by Iran , so Iran suddenly became the target of Western countries' concentrated firepower.
According to Russian Satellite News Agency, the United States will impose sanctions on Iran to limit arms trade between Iran and Russia. Immediately afterwards, the EU Council issued an announcement to impose sanctions on some entities in Iran.
At the same time, the United States, Britain and France also condemned the so-called "Iran's issue of providing drones to Russia" on UN Security Council . Faced with the subsequent international pressure, Iran did not accept it silently, but instead found a breakthrough and was ready to "anti-general" at any time.
According to Observer.com , Iranian Foreign Minister Abdullahyan recently denied Western reports that Iran was involved in the Ukrainian war. This time, Iran gave up the response model that the West repeatedly slandered and constantly clarified, but instead took the initiative to ask to discuss this issue with Ukraine.
In order to prove his innocence, Abdullahyan also claimed that he had made suggestions to EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Boreli , and Iran is willing to send personnel and Ukraine to set up a joint team to investigate the so-called Iranian drones are active on the Ukrainian battlefield.
Western countries have put Iran in diplomatic difficulties through a "false" drone problem, which makes people feel the strong voice of the West. At the same time, this phenomenon also makes people pay attention to the naked "double standard" behavior of the West.
For example, Western media regards the US military's military operations in Middle East as a just move, but condemns the role played by the Russian army on the Ukrainian battlefield. NATO countries collectively assist Ukraine, making the Russian-Ukrainian conflict more intense and lasting, which is completely unchallenged internationally, and the so-called "Iranian drone" has not been confirmed at all, but Iran has become the target of public criticism.
By repeatedly hyping the drone issue, Western countries have strongly dominated international diplomatic activities from Eastern Europe to the Middle East. This has finally recovered to a certain extent after the US military withdrew from Afghanistan in 2021.
However, if you look at the problem from more dimensions, you will find that the overall recession trend of Western countries has not changed. Although Western countries are aggressive, it is becoming increasingly difficult for them to coerce Iran with unilateral accusations.
First of all, the entire Middle East is increasingly free from the control of the United States and the West. Saudi 's performance in the past few months is very telling. In order to convince Saudi Arabia to cooperate with the US energy policy, in July this year, US President Biden personally visited Saudi Arabia.
As a result, as the core ally of the United States, Saudi Arabia did not give Biden face at all and let him return empty-handed. With the intensification of domestic inflation in the United States and the rise in international energy prices, the White House recently asked Saudi Arabia and "OPEC+" to increase oil production, which was flatly rejected by Saudi Arabia.
Saudi Arabia, which has many US military bases in China, can be so tough, so Iran needs to say more. Since the US-Iran dispute in the late 1970s, the two countries have been in a state of confrontation. The US warship cruising at Iran's doorstep has been a normal state for the past few decades.
But in recent years, the presence of the US military has gradually decreased, and the military pressure on Iran has been greatly reduced. In this case, Iran will not be afraid of the United States.
Secondly, the international community is unlikely to support the United States in putting pressure on Iran. has profound lessons about how to deal with US-Iran relations. Back then, the United States used the excuse of Iran nuclear issue to hijack the international community to put pressure on Iran. In order to resolve the crisis, several of the world's strongest countries except the United States joined the talks.
Finally, with the coordination of multiple parties, the United States and Iran reached an agreement, but unexpectedly, the US government later tore up the agreement and tried to impose more stringent demands on Iran. The efforts made by several countries that have been enthusiastic about helping have been ruined by the United Nations, which has been busy for a long time, has also been put on by the United States.
With this precedent, the United States still wants to raise trouble on the Iran issue since then, and the international community is reluctant to support it. Just like this time, the United States continues to hype the topic of drones. Although the public opinion is very popular, there are very few countries that have truly responded.
Not only developing countries are unwilling to follow up, but many Western countries also watched coldly. Although the EU did take action, its efforts were very slight.
Finally, Russia will not allow the United States to allude Iran behind the scenes. Russia is very clear that the ultimate goal of the United States hyping the topic of Iranian drones is to attack itself. As one of the five permanent members of the United Nations, Russia still has political influence internationally, so it is difficult for the United States to "snipe" Iran within the United Nations.
Of course, the United States can put aside the United Nations and act alone and win over several Western countries to impose sanctions on Iran together. But if you do this, your international influence will be much smaller and your harm to Iran will be much less. In short, the United States' hype on the drone issue this time has a lot of thunder and little rain, and it may only end up in vain.
