Chapter 807: The Iranian People's Party
"Do you want to send troops to intervene? Mr. President! "Secretary of Defense Harold? Brown also felt the seriousness of the situation, but in Harold? During Brown's tenure, U.S. military spending has been reduced. It's just that www.biquge.info inflation seems to have increased, and many military projects have been discontinued, and no one knows whether the US military strength can support the offensive. The United States simply intervened in the Angolan civil war and quickly retreated, pitting South Africa against the Soviet Union. Iran was a neighbor of the Soviet Union, and once the United States sent troops to intervene in Iran, it could cause the Soviet Union to intervene.
The United States has conducted transoceanic operations twice since World War II, but it doesn't seem to have worked well, the first time it didn't win, and the second time it didn't even lose directly. If the third transoceanic operation is launched, in the face of the Soviet Union in the north of Iran, no one can say whether the United States will have huge problems after a war. You must know that the power of the Soviet Union is much stronger than that of China, and if Iran is really used to delay the United States, the United States will be finished.
This also takes into account the aftermath of the Vietnam War, which dramatically changed the dynamics of the Cold War. The United States turned from a strong side in the Cold War to a weak one, and because of the aggressive attack of the Soviet Union, the Vietnam War even aggravated the racial and civil rights problems in the United States, put the country in a state of extreme division, and caused great mental trauma to the American people.
Because the overwhelming superiority of the U.S. military could not achieve victory, the regime it supported was simply unpopular. This has made the American people begin to doubt the purpose of the army's combat capability, and how can they confront the socialist camp if they can't even clean up Vietnam? Could it be that if you can't beat Vietnam, you will be able to defeat the Soviet Union?
Because the defeat of the Vietnam War is not unbearable, but once there is a comparison, it makes the Americans' hearts even more unbalanced. At the same time as the chaos in the United States, the Soviet Union turned from defense to offense and started a global offensive, and the battlefield spread to all continents in Asia, Africa and Latin America, and was invincible along the way, taking Laos in 74, Cambodia in 75, Thailand in 77, and Burma in 78 to revise its constitution and national name, and the country turned to develop relations with the socialist camp. Afghanistan in Central Asia was controlled by the pro-Soviet People's Party, and India in South Asia annexed Bangladesh with Soviet support.
The Soviet Union propped up five socialist countries in southern Africa in one fell swoop and encircled the African superpower South Africa. In the other direction, starting from Sudan and Ethiopia, it travels south along the Great Rift Valley to South Africa. South Africa, which originally had an absolute advantage in Africa, had to begin to retreat, and the pain of being oppressed was unspeakable.
In the international arena, the Soviet Union's offensive wave after wave has been higher and higher, and in this contrast, the performance of the United States, which has just struggled out of the quagmire, has made the American people extremely disappointed. Some believe that the United States is ultimately no match for the Soviet Union, and this lack of confidence accident is very terrible, Secretary of Defense Harold? Although Brown advocated sending troops, he had no confidence in whether he could pass or win after passing. The Minister of Defense is not confident, and it is conceivable how confident the people are in a new war, and the biggest possibility is that the National Assembly has just begun to discuss it, and it is immediately surrounded by protesters.
"No troops can be sent, no one will agree." President Carter kept shaking his head, don't look at Reagan's current attack on the policies of the Democratic administration, but in fact, if it is Reagan, President Carter also thinks that the other side has nothing to do. Now that the basic conditions are like this, could it be that Reagan sent troops directly without doing anything? This is simply impossible unless the economy improves, but who knows when the economy will improve.
Carter, who was preparing for the exhibition, frowned and said, "We can't send troops, and once we send troops, it will definitely be a big mistake." Iran and the Soviet Union are neighbors, and we have just pulled our feet out of the quagmire of Vietnam, are we going to step into a quagmire with a larger population and a larger area? It was the Soviets who were the happiest in this way. ”
Although President Carter is not a genius, as long as he looks at Iran, he can find that Iran has been surrounded by three socialist countries, and once the United States sends troops to intervene to protect the already unpopular Pahlavi Shah, the Soviet Union is very willing to fight with the United States in Iran.
"So what do we do? The army of the Pahlavi shakhs began to disorganize, which is a bad sign. "Secretary of Defense Harold? Brown was a little worried, just like Serov saw Iran's deduction at the beginning, he is also very embarrassed to look at Iran's various forces now, no matter how it evolves, it will not be beneficial to the United States.
For a moment there was no place to start, and Serov had been in this distress a few days ago. The distress of the United States is even greater, and the Soviet Union can easily exert influence on the countries of Eurasia if it wants to, but the United States cannot. After World War II, the United States competed with the Soviet Union entirely on the basis of its national strength, which was much stronger than the Soviet Union, and once the national strength of the two was brought closer, the Soviet Union's own superiority in Eurasia was very important.
"Pressure Pahlavi to put most of the power in the hands of people who share our values." After a long period of consideration, President Carter made a decisive decision. At this time, the rights of the Pahlavi shakh can only be sacrificed.
After all, Shah Pahlavi is an eternally self-conscious king, and Iran's unwavering support for Saudi Arabia caused oil prices to triple and hurt the United States enormously. Since now this king can no longer serve the interests of the United States, then abandon it, anyway, the United States has already done the same thing once.
"Let Shahivan and Pahlavi communicate, this king must give up more rights." President Carter was unequivocal.
When the riots in Iran were in full swing, the United States was ready to reach a deal with Iran's pro-Western parties, and at the same time bribe Iranian army generals, write blank checks to the top of the government, and send Sullivan to lure Pahlavi into giving up resistance and going into exile.
The person chosen by the United States is Shapur, the Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Iran? Bakhtiar, almost at the same time, Serov arrived in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, and also began to meet with the people of the Iranian People's Party, an agent of the Soviet Union.
In World War II, Iranian communists such as Ratimash rebuilt the party organization with the support of the Soviet Union and named it the People's Party. Under the rule of the Pahlavi dynasty, this party was, of course, illegal. The Baath Party has long been the dominant party, and the ban on party formation has only been in place for a few years.
But even in this case, the strength of the Iranian People's Party is still developing well. After all, Iran's contradictions are very large, with about 3 million industrial workers, and the difference in wages between Iranian American executives and employees and Iran's own workers is more than ten times, which naturally makes the Iranian People's Party develop rapidly. With such a big gap, coupled with the unemployment crisis, there is naturally room for the CPI's activities, and it is funny to say that almost all the left-wing backbone elements of the CPI are victims of the land reform of the White Revolution in those years, and the second-generation children of the big landowners, these bankrupt children of the big landlords, have now turned into leaders of the workers' movement in Iran.
Serov was not surprised when he arrived, after all, who said that the aristocracy could not revolutionize? The Decembrists of Imperial Russia were also nobles, and Dzerzhinsky was also noble. The revolution must not always allow illiterate people who cannot read a single word to be the main force, and even if they can, the leaders must be educated. Although the descendants of these big landowners have not been able to play with the big mullahs of Iran. But that's history, and now Serov feels that it's not that he can't win at all, and the biggest obstacle has been taken down by himself, isn't it?
"Hello comrades, first of all, I will tell you a not very good news, NATO Deputy Commander Hushai has arrived in Tehran and is in contact with Bakhtiar, and now it seems that your fate is not very optimistic." Serov sat down and dropped a bombshell first, which was definitely not good news. All of a sudden, these people in the Iranian People's Party were overwhelmed.
This kind of behavior of the United States is very well understood, and there are advantages and disadvantages to the outbreak of any event, and there will be no disadvantages and no benefits, and as for why the United States is doing this, Serov can also find several reasons from the perspective of the Americans. Iran began to take an independent course in its oil policy, which seriously undermined the interests of the United States. The United States wants to expand the influence of Islamic fundamentalist forces in the Middle East.
The grand strategic policy of the United States has helped to strengthen the religious forces in the Middle East, influenced the peaceful religious forces in Central Asia and the Caucasus, awakened the religious consciousness of the pacifist in the Soviet Union, triggered chaos within the Soviet Union, and intensified the centrifugal force of the former peaceful religious republics in the Soviet Union.
Serov has strengthened the KGB's presence in Central Asia and the Caucasus, and has built a new giant gulag in Central Siberia, with everything in place, and the whole city has everything except heating. The environment is very good, absolutely smog-free, and the surrounding 200 kilometers are inaccessible to people, which is used to deal with religious elements who may be ready to move.
But passive defense is certainly not what the KGB should do, especially now that Iran is surrounded by socialist countries, and if it does not even dare to seize power by force, it is obviously a slander against a real revolutionary force.
"I know that you control the union, and that you are only hiding among the mullahs, and you are starting to fight against the king in the name of religion, and I must say that this is not a good idea." "There are three million industrial workers in Iran, and there are widespread bankruptcies in rural areas, and some of you are the victims," Serov said. Whether from the city or from the countryside, you can completely abandon religion and go it alone, and I understand that the BJP is thinking about paying a smaller price, but don't forget that neither the agents of the West nor you revolutionaries are actually as large as the religious leaders. So the religious brand can be used until now. It's time for a real revolution. ”
"A true revolutionary must not say that he will not fight." Serov looked at these humanity with contempt. (To be continued.) )