Chapter 355 The dollar is like the water of the Yellow River
Pahlavi wants to go to the United States for medical treatment, but the treatment is fake, and it is true that he seeks asylum in the United States.
As soon as the news came out, the most hearty was the Iranian embassy in the United States, which hastened to report to Washington and resolutely oppose allowing Pahlavi to enter the United States.
Iran demands that the Pahlavi family be extradited back to Iran for trial and confiscate the wealth embezzled by the Pahlavi family, and if the United States allows Pahlavi to enter the United States at this time, it will surely completely destroy the relationship between Iran and the United States.
The overthrow of Pahlavi has made relations between the United States and Iran already very difficult, but it is by no means without room for relaxation, but once Pahlavi is allowed to enter the country, it will be equivalent to the United States taking the initiative to abandon Iran.
Therefore, there is no doubt that allowing Pahlavi to enter the United States is contrary to the national interests of the United States.
President Ford agreed with this, and he originally did not agree to Pahlavi's entry into the United States, but in the end, he could not resist the pressure of Kissinger, Rockefeller and others, and had to agree to Pahlavi's request.
Kissinger represents the power of the Jews.
In the entire Muslim world, the only one who really has good relations with Israel is Iran, so the Jews are very fond of Pahlavi, and Israel needs the Pahlavi banner.
Some American tycoons, such as the oil tycoon Rockefeller, have deep personal ties with Pahlavi, and Pahlavi has given them too many benefits, not to mention that these oil tycoons are inextricably linked with the Jews.
Together, no one can resist them, not President Ford, not even the national interests of the United States.
On October 23, 1979, Pahlavi went to the United States for treatment of lymphoma, which immediately angered the Iranians.
Khomeini put forward the national policy of "neither leaning east nor west", and he naturally did not want to completely break relations with the United States, which is not in Iran's national interests, but water can carry a boat and can also capsize a boat, and even if he is a god of Iran, sometimes he has to follow the trend.
Now it is.
Eight days later, on November 1, Khomeini called on the Iranian people to demonstrate to the United States and Israel, calling the American political axe "Satan" and "the enemy of Islam."
Khomeini was forced to do so, and if it was delayed, the power of this fire would be used by other forces, and the result would be the same.
This anti-American rhetoric was so appealing that more than 1,000 people soon gathered around the U.S. Embassy to protest.
On 4 November, about 500 Iranian students, who claimed to be "disciples of the imams," occupied the main building of the embassy in another attack, and 66 US embassy personnel were detained.
The hostage crisis erupted.
Undoubtedly, this was an unbridled humiliation of the mighty United States, and the American political axe reacted swiftly, with President Carter issuing a strong statement the next day, November 5, demanding that the Iranian political axe release the hostages and severely punish the perpetrators.
Iran's response is predictable, and it immediately responded with a-for-tat response.
On November 12, the United States terminated oil imports from Iran, and some Iranians were expelled from the United States. On 14 November, the United States froze about $8 billion worth of Iranian assets in the United States.
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White House, Capitol Hill...... At this moment, many big names in the United States are sitting in front of the television.
Today, right now, the Chinese Embassy in the United States wants to express its views on the Iranian hostage crisis on behalf of the Chinese political axe.
The Iranian hostage crisis is the hottest and most eye-catching thing in the world at the moment, and the Chinese come to intervene at this time, although the United States knows that there is no good thing, but it can't do it if it wants to deal with it coldly.
In a word, China is not an ordinary country, and if China wants to attract attention, the United States has no way.
The Americans may not come, but they cannot stop the attention of other countries in the world, not to mention, if the Americans do not come, they will certainly give the Chinese an excuse to attack the United States.
There were as many as three or four hundred reporters.
"Ladies and gentlemen, we are convening this press conference today for two purposes, one is to support the righteous act of the Iranian people, and the other is to not bear the American people being wantonly fooled by some evil people."
With a bang, the opening remarks of Jiang Shanqiao, the Chinese ambassador to the United States, immediately caused a sensation.
"Mr. Ambassador, do you not consider the holding of diplomats protected by international law hostage a shameless and barbaric practice?" A French female reporter stood up and asked.
Jiang Shanqiao said: "Madam, what do you think it is for a diplomat protected by international law to carry out a coup d'Γ©tat and overthrow the democratically elected political axe in a sovereign country?" β
"These are two different things." The female reporter was stunned for a moment, and then said.
"Even if it's two different things, ma'am, do you think that a coup d'Γ©tat and the overthrow of the elected political axe would be more shameless and barbaric than taking diplomats hostage?" Jiang Shanqiao asked.
As a last resort, the female reporter nodded.
Jiang Shanqiao smiled and said: "Madam, how are these two different things, can those evil people in the United States do whatever they want, and the Iranian people can only behave as good students?" β
"Madam, we have a saying in China, tell you to be the first year of junior high school, I will be the fifteenth, I think the Iranian people are killing those hostages, and it is not the Iranian people who are responsible, but those evil people in the United States."
"The United States has always advocated freedom and human rights, so I don't understand why the United States expelled Iranians who had nothing to do with the hostage incident. I don't understand why the assets of the Iranians, who also have nothing to do with the hostage incident, should be frozen. β
"Furthermore, the United States regards freedom of the press as its life, but why do I see that all the American media unanimously attack the revolutionaries as shameless and barbaric in taking diplomats protected by international law hostage, and that no one will come out to educate the ignorant people of the United States, and it is these civilized diplomats who have staged a coup d'Γ©tat and overthrown the democratically elected political axe in a sovereign state? Also, why is no one telling the American people how many heinous crimes the American political axe has committed in Iran and how much wealth it has plundered the Iranian people? β
"I want to ask the American political axe and the American people, did Pahlavi commit a crime? If the American political axe and the American people believe that Pahlavi has not committed a crime, then I have to ask, where did the Pahlavi family's tens of billions of dollars come from? If Pahlavi committed a crime, then why did the Pahlavi family become the ruler of Iran, and who made Pahlavi the ruler of Iran? β
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Jiang Shanqiao mercilessly shot poisoned arrows at the simple and honest American people, and finally, he laughed and said: "Ladies and gentlemen, I am very curious, curious whether today's press conference will appear on American television and newspapers, and whether what I said today will be deliberately ignored or even deliberately distorted?" β
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The big people hate, all hate itchy teeth, of course they hate the Chinese for wantonly attacking them, but they hate the Chinese even more for jumping over and picking peaches, picking the big peach of Iran.
The Chinese are too cunning.
In the Middle East, the Chinese will not take the initiative to fight with the United States and the Soviet Union, but as long as there is an opportunity, they will never be polite, as they are now.
Chinese are not fighting for political interests, Chinese are businessmen, bent on making money. Although the Chinese do this, the United States is not so uncomfortable, but this is also where the Chinese are cunning.
The failure to fight for political interests first of all made the Soviet Union not care too much, and it also made it impossible for the United States to make up its mind to deal with China with all its might, and the result was that China was invincible.
Now, the United States still has no choice but to watch the Chinese pick peaches and eat with their mouths full of oil.
Abominable Chinese!
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Washington's bigwigs are suffering and happy.
Just when the big men finally came to a consensus and decided to deal with the Chinese and severely punish Iran, a cannon shot of the October Revolution strangled their plans in the belly.
On the evening of December 27, while Western Christians were still immersed in the joy of Christmas, the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan with 80,000 troops.
Afghanistan, a strategic point within a strategic location, the United States does not have the slightest possibility of watching the Soviet Union occupy Afghanistan, but in this way, the United States will not only be unable to deal with China, but will in turn give China benefits, so as to seek China's cooperation.
However, the Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan is a unique good opportunity, perhaps dragging the Soviet Union to death in Afghanistan in one fell swoop, so that the Soviet Union will have to lose half its life if it does not die.
Therefore, the big people are happy with good hopes.
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The happiest nature is the Chinese, this luck is simply incurable!
Lao Maozi, my dear, my dear!
Because of Lao Maozi's outright, wise and martial, China can simply walk sideways in the world, and it is still walking sideways in the happy smiling faces of Westerners.
Among the Chinese, the happiest has to be the personable Mrs. Lu.
These days, Lu Xiaoya is in a very good mood, let's put it this way, it's not easy for her mouth to close.
Lu Xiaoya is in such a good mood, she can finally make money.
I used to make money, but it was all on paper, but now, it's real money.
In January of '80, the order came, sell gold and oil.
Until two months, gold and oil had been bought, and the more they bought, the better, with the only limit being that they did not push up the price of gold and oil significantly.
Oil is okay, the price has been maintained around thirteen dollars per barrel, and the fluctuation is very small, but gold is not, it is all the way up, and Lu Xiaoya, who bought it, hurts.
But now, Lu Xiaoya's flesh doesn't hurt at all, she is still excited in addition to excitement.
At the end of December, because of the hostage crisis and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, it was a real sudden change, gold rose from $390 an ounce to $850, and oil jumped from $13 to an all-time high of $35.
Selling, selling vigorously, but there is also a limitation, that is, the price of gold and oil cannot be significantly depressed because of their selling.
Sell, you can sell it for gold, but quietly, don't shoot it.
In those years, 500 tons of gold were purchased per year, and 300 million barrels of oil were stored every year.
The net profit is in billions of dollars every month, which is doubled!
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Buying expensive rather than cheap is a defect that is not easy to overcome in people's surnames, and this is especially true for our Chinese people.
The London gold market dared to speculate gold to $850 per ounce, and the Chinese people dared to speculate to $950, so Lu Xiaoya, who has never loved making money from Chinese, was not polite this time.
One word, is to earn!
When it's okay, southerners always look down at the north. Of course, this is only for those white-collar workers large and small who are ignorant and fearless.
Now, the price of oil and gold has risen wildly, which will naturally lead to an overall rise in prices. At this time, white-collar workers of all sizes in the south are blue with envy of the north.
No matter how the situation changes outside, the lives of ordinary people in the north are hardly affected.
Prices in the north can rise as much as they want, but there is a price and wage in the north, and if the inflation is, the government will give subsidies as much as possible, and the compensation is very comprehensive.
If you have, you can go to the political axe.
Therefore, although the life of the common people in the north is not as good as that of the cities in the south, it has always been getting better, and there has been no regression for so many years, at most it remains the same.
Stability is the highest goal of governing the country with a political axe, and the south also wants to learn it, but it can't learn it at all.
This time, the sharp rise in oil prices has had a much more serious impact on the south than it did in '73.
Although the increase this time is not as heavy as in '73, it is not much worse, but the south's dependence on oil is much heavier than it was in '73.
At that time in '73, maybe you only needed 10,000 tons of oil a year, but today, it may be 500,000 tons or 1 million tons, so as soon as oil rises wildly, the impact will also rise with the wind.
Seventy-three years later, many countries had established oil reserve systems, and the South had also established them, but they were too small to be of negligible importance.
So, at this moment, it's too sad.
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The State Council is where the legislators work, and if the autonomous provinces need to communicate with the central government about any matters, whether they are legislators or not, they usually come here.
At this moment, the hall of the State Council was filled with a number of people, including parliamentarians from the autonomous provinces and officials from the autonomous provinces, who had come to listen to the letter.
In recent years, the North has adopted a policy towards the South to enable the autonomous provinces to implement the decrees and regulations established by the central government.
This kind of policy is a quid pro quo, in which the north gives some benefits to the autonomous provinces in exchange for the implementation of the laws and regulations formulated by the central government.
This policy is very popular with all the autonomous provinces, because the implementation of these laws and regulations will definitely have more advantages than disadvantages for the autonomous provinces, and the implementation of these laws and regulations will only harm the interests of a small number of people.
If, under normal circumstances, it would be extremely difficult for the provinces to enforce these laws and regulations, if not absolutely impossible, but now it is not a normal situation.
Now, there is one less autonomous province, and Guizhou is also included in the north.
Times have changed, the common people are not so easy to fool, knowing that if they join the north, they will immediately live a good life, and a poor place like Guizhou has too few resources to stop it at all.
If, in the future, the standard of living in the north surpasses that of the south in an all-round way, then the north will not have to do anything, and all the autonomous provinces will have to consciously cry and beg to be included in the north, just like Guizhou and Shaanxi.
This has already made many people sit on pins and needles, and what is even more terrifying is that now, people who understand one thing is clear, that is, the north is not poor, and no matter what aspect of the strength of the north is, it is incomparable with the south.
The reason why the living standards of the common people in the north are not as high as those of the cities in the south is definitely a deliberate act of the north, and the north is accumulating national strength at the cost of reducing the living standards of the common people.
The crisis was imminent, forcing the rich and powerful people in the autonomous provinces to suppress their own greed and the greed of others and to make every effort to build their own one-third of an acre of land.
Therefore, this policy of the north is in favor of the wise people of the autonomous provinces in carrying out these decrees and regulations which have been formulated by the central government to the detriment of a very small number of people and to the benefit of the majority.
Now, the time has come again, because of the heavy pressure of oil prices, all the autonomous provinces have sent people to Yanjing to see if there are any laws and regulations for them to enforce.
The style of the central political axe is still the same, and today is to listen to the words of the letter.
At nine o'clock, Zhun Xin'er came, and the central political axe agreed to the request of the autonomous provinces, but many people were dumbfounded when they saw the conditions of the central political axe.
This time, the condition given by the central government is to implement seven laws and regulations, one of which is the "Construction Law".
It's terrible.
The previous laws and regulations, such as the "Ban on the Use of Plastic Bags" or something, did not have much impact, but this "Construction Law", the impact is too great, especially this construction law is simply not set by people, cutting off the head is like playing.
Who can stand this?
This kind of exchange, once it is done, no one dares to disobey the law, the punishment clause is clearly written, and if it is committed, no one doubts what the consequences will be.
Now, the young ones may not know what the temper of the Black God Army is, but anyone who is a little older knows it.
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On 23 April 1980, after half a month of fierce debate, the Sichuan Provincial Assembly passed a motion exchanged with the central government by a vote of 137 in favor and 89 against.
Except for Sichuan, none of the other autonomous provinces passed.
The reason for this result is that most of the bigwigs in Sichuan Province have recognized the situation, and once the north wants to take Sichuan, they will not be able to stop it at all.
Sichuan is located in the southwest and is subject to a unique geographical environment, and even if Chiang Kai-shek and the Americans do not want Sichuan to be included in the north, they are limited in what they can do, and it is impossible to carry Sichuan's economy on its shoulders.
Hunan and Hubei are all hanging, not to mention Sichuan.
In that case, if there is a benefit, it will fall first, and as for the future, let's talk about it later.
What's more, the benefits given by the north this time are not half a bit, and they are 13 percent lower than those of the international market.
After the results came out, no one expected that the central political axe would go back on its word and change the quantity and price of oil supply.
The annual oil supply will increase by 10,000 tons, and the price will be reduced by another 13%.
Dizzy, dizzy, the big guys know that this is the reward given to them by the Black God Army.
(To be continued)