As Saudi Arabia and other Arab League countries began to withdraw their troops from Iraq, or more accurately to withdraw ground troops, the Iraqi civil war entered its final phase.

According to Crown Prince Mohammed's arrangement, Wang Dong went to lie in Iraq.

It is not to direct the Iraqi government forces to attack Baghdad, but to rectify the Iraqi authorities, to be precise, to improve the status of Nanijal.

Whether Razak wants to accept it or not, Nanijal is already the de facto commander of the Iraqi Defense Forces.

Of course, Wang Dong's trip is also to prepare for the next armistice negotiations.

Although Iran has not yet given a clear answer to the question of troop withdrawal, with the withdrawal of ground troops from the Arab League countries, China's attitude has changed, and Iran cannot withdraw its troops. The key is how much main battle equipment Iran will hand over to the Karim regime before withdrawing its troops.

To put it bluntly, this is the main bargaining chip of the Karim regime in the next armistice negotiations.

Leaving aside how the negotiations will end, if the Karim regime does not want to take advantage of the negotiations if it is not strong enough.

Because Iran has not stated its position on the withdrawal of troops, and the fighting on the front line is not over, the Arab League has increased its air strikes at the same time as withdrawing ground troops.

For this reason, Crown Prince Mohammed's special envoy to China also explicitly mentioned to the Chinese leaders that Saudi Arabia and other Arab League countries will not stop air operations until Iran agrees to withdraw its troops from Iraq, and can only guarantee to strike at Iranian military forces operating in Iraq as much as possible.

To put it bluntly, the Arab League's air strikes are aimed at Iran, not at the Karim regime entrenched in Baghdad.

Next, after Huaxia expressed its desire for Arab League countries to work for peace, Saudi Arabia took the lead in withdrawing its air forces deployed in Iraq.

Since then, other Arab League countries have also withdrawn their combat aircraft deployed in Iraq.

Of course, this did not have the slightest effect.

Prior to the withdrawal, Saudi Arabia had already handed over 120 JF-17 fighter jets from Pakistan to Iraqi government forces, as well as dozens of A-5 attack aircraft.

In addition, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates and Oman have each provided Iraqi government forces with a fleet of combat aircraft and helicopters.

Later, Saudi Arabia even paid for the purchase of a batch of F-16C/D fighters from Oman, and after the necessary improvements were made by technicians arranged by Pakistan, all of them were donated to the Iraqi government army, mainly because the Iraqi Air Force had previously equipped and used such fighters.

Of course, the key is the direct air support of the Arab League countries.

That is, combat aircraft deployed in Saudi and Kuwaiti territory continue to be dispatched to bomb rebel targets in Iraq.

Within a month after that, the main opponent of Saudi Arabia and other countries was no longer the rebels, but the Iranian Air Force.

According to the RAF's operational report, RAF fighter jets engaged Iranian fighter jets at least 100 times during the month.

That's the equivalent of 3 to 4 battles a day!

Of course, this is a bit of an exaggeration, but it should be an aerial encounter to be exact.

Most of the time it was just encounters, and no fighting broke out.

Why?

Didn't get into the engagement distance at all, how to fight?

Although on the ground battlefield, the performance of the Arab League army is not very good, and it can even be said to be very bad, especially the ground forces of the United Arab Emirates and Oman, not only do not become the main force, but also often lag behind, but on the air battlefield, the performance of the Arab League army is different.

Quite simply, the Air Force is inherently a technical service.

You must know that Saudi Arabia and other tyrant countries have advanced fighter jets.

The main force of the Royal Saudi Air Force is the EF2000, the former is a typical air superiority fighter, and the F-15SA, which also has extremely strong air combat capabilities.

Several other Arab League countries are not bad, all have third- and third-generation semi-air fighters.

What about the other side?

Before receiving Russian assistance, the main fighters of the Iranian Air Force were more than a dozen F-14A "Persian Cats" that could barely fly and were basically incapacitated, as well as dozens of older F-4s and "Mirage" F1s, which could not be compared with the air power of the Arab League countries.

Even after receiving Russian assistance, the Iranian Air Force is at an absolute disadvantage.

According to information disclosed later, Russia at that time supplied Iran with 30 Su-30M, as well as at least 60 Su-24 with the same number of Su-25.

Of these, only 30 Su-30Ms are capable of performing the task of seizing air supremacy.

30 is not a small number, but compared with the advanced fighter jets owned by Saudi Arabia and other Arab League countries, it is not much.

In addition, the Su-30M is not really an air superiority fighter either, but a multi-role fighter.

In the Russian Aerospace Forces, the supremacy fighters are the Su-27SK and Su-35.

Obviously, the former is too far behind, and the latter is too little, so Russia will be able to come to Iran's aid, and only the Su-30M, which is in between, will be tasked with air supremacy.

From the point of view of combat use, 30 Su-30Ms are actually enough.

Why?

Iraq is such a big place, and after China intervened, the two sides did not dare to rashly attack the oil tankers, so they could only use their forces on the battlefield in Iraq.

Just to fight a low-intensity war in Iraq, 30 Su-30Ms are more than enough.

The problem is that Iran lacks a vital aircraft, and Russia cannot provide it.

What plane?

AWACS!

You must know that Russia has only a few outdated A-50 early warning aircraft developed during the Soviet era, and it is a question whether these early warning aircraft can still fly.

Obviously, even if Russia has the heart, it will not be able to provide Iran with AWACS aircraft.

On the contrary, Saudi Arabia has more than a dozen E-3Cs, and all of them are in good shape.

Let the Su-30M, guided by ground-based radars, fight in the air with the EF3 commanded by the E-2000C?

Obviously, there is little chance of winning.

It is precisely like this, most of the time, the Su-30M is operating in Iranian airspace, using fire control radars to illuminate Arab League fighters over Iraq, launching sneak attacks with medium-range air-to-air missiles when they have the opportunity, and only watching if they have no chance, and immediately turning away from the battle after being attacked.

As for the fighters of the Arab League, for political reasons, only Iranian fighters that entered Iraq's airspace will be attacked.

As a result, the two sides often encounter each other in the air, illuminating each other with fire control radars, but rarely see each other firing missiles at each other, or even engaging in dogfights.

This situation lasted for almost a month.

During this period, the Iranian Air Force lost dozens of fighter jets, but almost all of them were Su-25s and other attack aircraft that carried out front-line bombing missions.

After a month of stalemate, Iran has finally chosen to compromise.

Actually, this is also the deadline.

After Saudi Arabia and other Arab League countries withdrew their ground troops, the Chinese authorities made it clear that they would give Iran a maximum of one month to end its military operations in Iraq.

The deadline has come, and Iran has sensibly accepted China's proposal to withdraw its troops and ceasefire.