Volume 5 Chapter 586 The Strange Atmosphere on the Security Council
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On the morning of 8 April, Radio Arabian Al Jazeera played Saddam's video on time. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
In the video, former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, who is exactly 70 years old this year, wears a military uniform and stands in front of two rows of mighty soldiers and swears loudly: Fight the United States to the end.
From the desolate desert in the background of the video, it can be seen that the news that Saddam Hussein is still hidden in Iraq or a certain region in the Middle East is not groundless. And the hundreds of mighty soldiers standing behind him also show that in the four years since Saddam Hussein disappeared, he did not hide from the pursuit of the United States, but was able to regather the soldiers who were once loyal to him and form a guard under the noses of the United States and the world...... An anti-American guard.
The news soon spread around the world via the internet. Compared with the Soken War, the appearance of Saddam Hussein is undoubtedly more attractive to people's attention. After all, Saddam Hussein is a real 'big celebrity,' and in terms of fame, he is not much lower than Comrade bin Laden. It can be said that Saddam Hussein is one of the most famous presidents in the 21st world.
Even if Saddam Hussein is no longer the supreme leader of the more than 300,000 Iraqi Republican Guards, he is no longer the hardline figure who stamped his feet and trembled in the Middle East. Without an army and surrounded by external reinforcements, whether Saddam Hussein could survive the all-round attacks of tens of thousands of US troops and others who had participated in the Iraq war aroused the interest of many people who had nothing to do.
The Internet is full of speculation about Saddam's invisibility, and in addition, speculation about Saddam's appearance at this time, what is the reason? Are you ready to think you have the strength to confront the U.S. military in Iraq? There are even some underground gambling houses with strong backgrounds that have begun to sit in the bank, betting on the time of Saddam's first confrontation with the Iraqi US army, and the outcome of the first contest, and so on. Although there is no pattern to follow in this kind of 'nonsensical' gambling, it has attracted many gamblers and ordinary people to bet because of its novelty.
At this time, the American political axe has no heart to manage the gambling of the underground world. The intelligence officers in the Middle East under the CIA's Office of Middle East Affairs are all dispatched like hunting dogs. Under the pressure of the US political axe, the current Iraqi political axe also dispatched secret police to participate in the pursuit of Saddam. It is important to look for Saddam Hussein in the shadows, and it is even more important to guard against Saddam's attack on the Iraqi US military or the current Iraqi political axe. Washington's original plan to begin withdrawing troops from Iraq early next year has been postponed indefinitely.
Moreover, because of Saddam's appearance, the Senate meeting, which originally opposed increasing the military spending of the US military in Iraq, urgently passed a special fund for the Iraq war with 76 votes in favor and 21 votes against, and the amount of the fund rose from $100 billion to $200 billion proposed by Washington. In addition to the emergence of Saddam Hussein, which may lead to the deterioration of the situation in Iraq, there is another important reason, that is, Iran is about to conduct a nuclear explosion test.
As a theocratic country, Iran became a member of the 'blacklist' within the US political axe more than a decade ago. And Iran's secret nuclear weapons program has always angered Washington. On many occasions, Washington has exerted pressure on Iran to stop Iran from conducting nuclear tests and conducting covert research and development of nuclear weapons.
However, what everyone did not expect was that Iran, a country that could produce only 20% enriched uranium a year ago, would conduct a nuclear explosion test a year later. How could Iran cross the gap from 20 per cent to 90 per cent weapons-grade enriched uranium in one year to build an atomic bomb for experimental purposes?
The top level of the US political axe is suspected that Iran is secretly supported by a certain nuclear-armed country. This country could be one of the existing nuclear-armed states, or it could be North Korea. However, neither the US political nor intelligence agencies have considered that Iran's nuclear weapons technology comes from a nuclear weapons base secretly established in Africa.
In the morning, at the UN headquarters, the Security Council held an emergency meeting, at which the representatives of the United States, Britain, France, and other countries asked Iran's plenipotentiary to the UN to explain Iran's secret development of nuclear weapons. The United States and other countries have repeatedly put pressure on Iran over Iran's development of nuclear technology, and have instructed the International Atomic Energy Agency to conduct a thorough investigation of Iran's nuclear facilities. The result of the investigation three years ago was that Iran was not developing nuclear weapons. Later, because of the tough posture of Iran's political axe, the United States and other political axes relaxed sanctions on Iran.
A year ago, Iran's political axe tore the IAEA's seal and re-conducted its nuclear tests. The commitment to the outside world is not to develop nuclear weapons, but to use nuclear energy for peaceful purposes. But who knows, just one year later, Iran actually made a big joke to the whole world, and was about to conduct an atomic bomb nuclear explosion test!
"Iran's secret research on nuclear weapons is a breach of world peace...... It's anti-human ......," the roar of Kate, the US representative to the UN Security Council, echoed in the Council chamber. He would have lost the demeanor of a diplomat, and like a shrew on the street, he would almost point at the nose of the Iranian representative and scold.
If you don't get angry, you can't do it, the first half of 07 was a disaster year for the United States. First, more than 10,000 American soldiers were killed by the Taliban atomic bombs, and then the elaborate plan to destroy the Somali regime fell through, and before the American political axe could react, Saddam Hussein appeared and Iran was about to conduct a nuclear test...... All of this is to strip the face of the US political axe and endanger the US position in the world. Kate has a reason to vent her anger.
Representatives of the five permanent members of the Security Council Chamber, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, representatives of 10 Security Council member states and 17 representatives of Iran. The usual meetings and laughter in the Security Council Chamber rarely show a dull atmosphere. Even Moros, the Russian representative who had always been swaggering, sat there with a solemn face, listening to the roar of the American representative with a pair of ears motionless, and his eyes staring at a document in his hand. The information is provided by the representative of Iran in part on Iran's nuclear programme, accompanied by a proposal to join the nuclear club.
In today's world, there are five members of the nuclear club that are widely recognized by the international community, that is, the five permanent members, and three unofficially recognized members: Pakistan, India and Israel. In addition, there are more than 40 countries outside the 'nuclear threshold'. The so-called 'nuclear threshold' countries refer to countries that have possessed, researched and developed nuclear weapons, but do not possess nuclear weapons now. Countries such as Iran and North Korea are among the representative countries, and countries and regions such as South Africa, Ukraine, Argentina and Taiwan are among the 'nuclear threshold' countries.
Iran, which is a 'nuclear threshold' country, suddenly wants to cross the threshold and become an unofficial member of an international nuclear club similar to Pakistan. The difficulty is very great, and first of all, it will have to face the sanctions and strikes of today's nuclear-armed states.
Since the advent of nuclear weapons, more than 120,000 nuclear bombs have been produced worldwide. Even after several nuclear arms reduction agreements, more than 20,000 atomic bombs have been deployed around the world so far. Enough to destroy the earth countless times. Supposedly, there is already an atomic bomb that can destroy the earth countless times, and there are more countries on the earth that have nuclear weapons, and it doesn't matter if there are more nuclear weapons. Because whether it is 20,000 or 100,000, it can destroy the earth.
For the time being, nuclear weapons are no longer a weapon of war, but a weapon that guarantees world peace. It can be said that nuclear weapons are the only weapons that have succeeded in achieving their use as a guarantee of peace. However, weapons are weapons, and they are needed to ensure peace and deter adversaries. In the eyes of nuclear-armed countries, this ultimate dual-purpose weapon is definitely in the hands of the least number of countries, and even the best in the world is to have it by one country. No country wants to see an additional 'adversary', even if that adversary is so vulnerable in terms of nuclear weapons.
The representative of Iran did not care in the slightest about the 'sanctions' and other threats that the representative of the United States was calling for. In the minds of Iranians, the 'sanctions' that the United States calls will not have any impact on Iran, but will provide an incentive for Iran to cultivate its internal economy. Since the Iranian Revolution, Iran has faced more than 20 years of sanctions from the United States, while Iran's domestic economy is still good and has not collapsed, as can be seen in the endless emergence of various commercial goods.
After all, modern society is very different from the Cold War era. At that time, the mainstream of the world was to fight opponents. In the past, the two camps led by the Soviet Union and the United States used various means in order to defeat their opponents and gain the largest voice in the world. Now that the Cold War has ended, the mainstream of the world is to increase exchanges between the two countries and develop the economy. Under this mainstream, or general trend, the sanctions imposed by the US political axe cannot affect the survival of a country. Of course, if Iran is a resource-poor country, the impact of such sanctions is also very serious. In reality, on the contrary, Iran has the most important strategic resource in the world - oil. This allows Iran to easily get out of the US blockade with its oil.
U.S. representative Kate loudly refuted Iran's secret development of nuclear weapons for half a day, and she didn't know how much it was consumed. In the end, it turned out that none of the representatives of the more than a dozen countries present took the big stick and 'struck' Iran during his pause. This made Kate very dissatisfied and at the same time very vigilant. He is not the kind of 'rough man' who is easily impulsive and has no intelligence, otherwise he would not have held such an important position as the US representative to the Security Council. Something seems to be wrong with the atmosphere of today's emergency meeting of the Council.
"Mr. Hassan, you should know that at the 1996 session of the United Nations General Assembly, the 'Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty' was adopted, which is a treaty responsible for the whole world, which has effectively saved our living planet from the deterioration of natural conditions caused by various nuclear tests. As far as I know, Iran intends to conduct a nuclear explosion test, but I wonder how Iran intends to solve this problem? The French representative pushed the frame and looked at the Iranian representative, Hassan, and asked slowly.
The Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty was first established in 63 years, when any nuclear tests were prohibited on the ground, in water and in space, and there was no ban on underground nuclear tests. It was not until 96 that the global environment changed dramatically and the treaty on a comprehensive ban on nuclear testing was adopted. Today, nuclear tests are conducted in laboratories with subcritical experiments.
So far, only a few countries have mastered this technology for subcritical nuclear testing, which has very high requirements for the environment and technology of the experiment. It is also unknown whether such experiments have an impact on the environment. But at present, it is the only way in which nuclear tests can be conducted. In terms of Iran's nuclear technology, there is no such possibility of a subcritical nuclear test. Moreover, because subcritical nuclear tests have just been developed and studied, they are still imperfect in many places, and it is simply impossible to collect and obtain all the experimental data of nuclear explosions like the explosion of nuclear bombs.
(To be continued)