Chapter 2002 "Mr. President, Mr. Will Visit."
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In mid-to-late December 2006, the Iranian nuclear issue caused the entire world's crude oil supply to fluctuate dramatically!
At that time, it was reported that because of dissatisfaction with the Americans' accusations and threats against Iran's plans to develop and use nuclear energy for peaceful purposes, Iraq might shut down the international oil pipeline leading to the Strait of Hormuz in Iran as a retaliatory action against the United States.
In this news citing an Iranian parliamentary official, the world's famous media and the ABC television station of the United States said that in order to protest against the United States' criticism of Iran's peaceful development and use of nuclear energy, to win Iran's right to peacefully develop and use nuclear energy, and to resist the hegemonic acts of the United States, Iran is ready to close the Strait of Hormuz between Iran and the Arabian Peninsula.
With an average daily capacity of 15.5 million barrels of oil transported and one-sixth of global consumption, the Strait of Hormuz is the world's most important oil transportation corridor, and its closure would inevitably lead to a global shortage of crude oil supply. As soon as this plausible and unconfirmed news was released, it immediately caused great panic among global energy consumers, and investors expected the Federal Reserve to launch more monetary stimulus, and international oil prices rose sharply on Tuesday.
Although the Iranian Foreign Ministry later denied the news, saying that the crude oil supply would be normal, and the later news also proved that the news was actually just a self-directed and self-staged show led by OPEC to trigger the price increase in the international crude oil market, no one expected that the news would become true in less than ten days.
In a televised speech the day before Christmas, US President George W. Bush emphatically pointed out that Iran's nuclear issue has posed a serious threat to the entire world, and in order to urge Iran to return to the "right track," the US government has to take further sanctions against Iran, including but not only war.
Bush Jr.'s pre-Christmas speech is regarded as a naked threat of war issued by the US Government to the Iranian Government, and it also means that the dispute between the United States and Iran over Iran's development of nuclear weapons has reached the brink of breaking out.
As soon as US President George W. Bush's remarks came out, the whole world was in an uproar: Could it be that the United States and Iran are really going to fight again? God, can't this damn world allow us to enjoy quiet days for a while?
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"Really, does Iran have to go through so many hardships if it wants to develop its own nuclear weapons?" Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad muttered a prayer to Allah, but Allah remained as expressionless as ever...... It seems that in the face of the almost invincible Americans, Allah is also helpless, right? Not a lot of words
In fact, Iran's nuclear energy development activities first began in the 50s of the 20th century, when the United States and other Western countries supported it. In 1979, Iran established an Islamic state, and in 1980, the United States and Iran severed diplomatic relations, Iran refused to submit to the Western countries led by the United States, and at the same time, the war and military operations launched by the United States around Iran made Iran have to consider defending the country's security.
In fact, Ahmadinejad is well aware that the United States is currently launching sanctions against Iran on the grounds that Iran's development of nuclear energy will likely lead to the development of Iran's own weapons of mass destruction. In fact, these statements are just a piece of powder that the US government has put on its face, and what really makes the United States attach so much importance to Iran is actually Iran's strategic position in the world.
A very important point is that if the US military controls Iran, it will greatly enhance the US military's ability to control the Middle East and Central Asia, and will link Kuwait, Afghanistan, and Iran, which are actually controlled by the United States, and if it controls Iraq again in the future, it will enable the United States to firmly control the Middle East and Central Asia, threaten China, Russia, and Arab countries, and have a major impact on the situation in South Asia, West Asia, Central Asia, and East Asia.
Therefore, it is no exaggeration to say that the global goals of the United States and the Middle East strategy are closely related to the Iranian nuclear issue: the foreign policy of the United States is to safeguard the expansionist interests of the United States and its allies; expanding the U.S. economy; Promoting so-called American-style democracy abroad has weakened the internal forces of foreign countries and facilitated the expansion of the United States. Through the first Gulf War, the United States struck at Iraq and dominated and controlled the situation in the Gulf region. Through NATO's eastward expansion and the Kosovo war, Russia's strategic space has been squeezed. …,
After the Bush administration came to power, under the influence of Republican conservatism, it began to focus on safeguarding the interests of national expansion, and regarded Russia and China as potential strategic competitors. After the "9.11" that originally occurred in 2001 was forcibly "moved" by Zhang Lan to July 11, 2003, and became the "7.11" incident, the hard-line Republican neoconservative clique gained more momentum and engaged in expansion in the name of "anti-terrorism".
The war against Iraq is another important step in the US global strategic expansion, and in Bush's mind, launching this war has a bearing on the immediate and long-term security of the United States and on the United States' hegemonic or quasi-hegemonic status in the world.
Through war, it is not only possible to pull out the nail of Iraq and establish a strategic corridor in the Islamic world to safeguard American interests; It is also possible to control the core area of the Eurasian continent to achieve the role of strategic containment against Russia, Europe, China, India, and other major powers. If Iran is controlled again, the influence of the United States in Asia will have a decisive impact, and the United States will achieve military encirclement of Russia, China, India, and other major powers in Asia.
The oil reserves of the Gulf countries account for two-thirds of the world's total reserves, and their exports account for about 44.5% of the world's total oil exports
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