The Tangshan earthquake shook China and shocked the world.

Chinese, regardless of whether they are north or south, feel strong and proud, while other countries, after shock, some are envious, and some continue to be shocked.

There is a saying that laymen watch the excitement, and insiders watch the doorway. The Tangshan earthquake, whether it is a layman or an insider, there is enough to see.

The people of Tangshan and the people who came to rescue are all working tirelessly and selflessly......

After the necessary treatment, the injured were immediately lifted onto a helicopter and transported to the appropriate hospital, depending on the severity of the injuries.

The destructive force of the earthquake was enormous, and there were ruins everywhere, but in stark contrast to the ruins, they were in order.

This orderliness is not just superficial, but is ingrained in everyone's heart.

Here, there is grief everywhere, but there is no trace of desolation.

Seven days later, the statistics came out, with 8,769 dead and 39,894 wounded.

Very few people died in Tangshan City, less than 1,000 people, and the rest were rural.

On 7 August, the central government announced that the state would be responsible for rebuilding all the houses damaged in the earthquake, that the state would also be responsible for treating the injured, and that the state would also take care of the disabled to a certain extent, so that they would live without worry......

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China is too big, there are too many people, there are not only people with lofty ideals who sacrifice their lives for the country and the people, but also Han annihilation who has lost their conscience, and there are also those scum who are reckless for their own selfishness.

The Tangshan earthquake has made some Chinese feel not pride and pride, but cold fear.

Of course, the north is too strong, and although those people feel the cold fear, they don't dare to think about the north, so they start from themselves to eliminate the fear.

This fear is so painful, because the cost of eliminating the fear is too great, you have to cut the flesh, you have to cut the flesh from yourself in large chunks.

There is no doubt that this is good news for Chairman Chiang.

After the Tangshan earthquake, rents and interest rates were further reduced in the south and rural areas, and workers' wages and benefits were increased...... Many people in this dream want to drink the blood of the Black God Army and eat the flesh of the Black God Army.

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The Chinese have such an excellent helicopter with a surname!

This has made some of the most prominent figures in the United States extremely hostile to China unbelievable.

It is not strange that China has atomic bombs, missiles, satellites, nuclear submarines, airplanes, tanks, and helicopters, but the feeling is the feeling, and sometimes it has nothing to do with the surname Li, or even goes against the surname Li.

In a word, China is in the hearts of the big men again, and it is in the first place.

The Chinese are poor, especially the big ones who have their hearts stabbed at North China. China in the North is not only incomparable to the great United States, but also not in the South China.

China in the South is rich, but it does not develop heavy industry, let alone military heavy industry, and this is the true friend of the United States, while China in the North is poor, but it develops heavy industry and military heavy industry.

Therefore, it is necessary to punish northern China, and it is a mission given by God to the great United States. But how can these evil sinners in northern China be punished?

Alas, this is really a problem.

Damn that the despicable and shameless Chinese should give the greatest of the great Americans a headache!

All the think tanks were mobilized, and the entire American elite was brainstorming around the clock.

Finally, with the deepening of the understanding of China, a consensus was finally formed: although they are God's chosen people and shoulder a sacred mission, the Chinese are bandits and real barbarians, and it is better not to provoke them, let them go first.

In addition to this consensus, the elites also agreed to continue to strengthen their penetration and control of southern China.

Now, there has been a big change in the elites and their predecessors, they no longer worry about whether it will increase China's overall power, they are just going to control southern China.

This shift did not happen in a vacuum, but because of the expansion of American power and the fact that elites are more confident than their predecessors.

The petrodollar is the source of the confidence of the elites.

The golddollar is good enough, but the petrodollar is even bigger than the golddollar.

The XAURusd, if the United States encounters some difficulties temporarily, and there is not enough gold, then the XAUR may collapse at any time, but the petrodollar is different.

The petrodollar system is much more complex than the gold-dollar system, and whoever doesn't use the dollar will avoid most of this by simply increasing transaction costs.

And as long as the dollar is used, then the United States has to pay protection money on a regular basis.

It can be said that as long as the American aircraft carriers are roaming the oceans, and the dollars printed by the printing houses can keep up, the dollars will always be dollars.

With this confidence, the elites have nothing to fear.

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People are as greedy as they are.

Between ancient and modern China and foreign countries, and between different civilizations, the infinite truth of this sentence has been constantly demonstrated.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the wealth was hidden in the wealthy people, so that the dignified empire had no talent to raise soldiers, and these wealthy people, in the blink of an eye, were boiled and slaughtered, and their wealth was the cause of their death.

Today, Iran's Pahlavi dynasty once again proves this truth.

The Pahlavi shah's perverse behavior was already a source of outrage and protests in Iran, but at the same time, the tightening of spending to curb inflation led to a sharp increase in layoffs, especially among young, unskilled male workers, most of whom live in urban slums.

The Pahlavi kings and their 63 princes and princesses amassed a huge fortune of $20 billion, but laid off more than 100,000 people in order to save a few million dollars.

It is more than 100,000 people who have been cut, but these 100,000 people are the pillars of the family, and behind everyone is a family.

In an instant, these people, along with their families and relatives, became one of the most hated groups of the Pahlavis, and they became another subject of the demonstrations.

In the midsummer of 1978, Iran, which had been assessed by the CIA as having no revolutionary foundation, suddenly changed the situation.

The demonstrations, which reached their peak on December 10 and 11, numbered nearly nine million people throughout the country.

The fact that so many people participated in the demonstrations was also unprecedented in the history of mankind.

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The situation in Iran has changed dramatically, and the faces of the big names in Washington have changed. At this point, there is no point in scolding the CIA bunch of rubbish.

What's more, the CIA is waste, and where can they go without waste? It's a tank of, and the best way to deal with it is to bury it all in the ground.

Iran is extremely extreme and extremely important to the United States.

Iran's geographical position is unparalleled, guarding the Strait of Helmuz, the oil passage of the Persian Gulf, and most seriously, Iran is adjacent to the Soviet Union, and if Iran falls to the Soviet Union, it means that the Soviet Union controls the Strait of Helmuz.

Oil from the Persian Gulf oil producers had to pass through the Strait of Helmuz, and if the Soviet Union took control of the Strait of Helmuz, the consequences would be unimaginable.

Second, Iran is the supreme weapon of the United States to threaten Saudi Arabia, these Middle Eastern oil producers, and its role is greater than that of Israel, especially since Iran and Israel cooperate with each other, which will have a chemical reaction.

Including Saudi Arabia, which Middle Eastern oil-producing country does not hate the United States to death? Still, these Middle Eastern oil producers had to give in and agree to tie the dollar to oil.

Without Iran, this would never have been possible.

In addition, Iran is also a major oil producer, with extremely rich oil reserves, and the United States has huge economic interests in Iran.

Finally, Iran has a special emotional significance for the United States, because it is the starting point for a new type of American diplomacy after the war.

After World War II, Iran was nominally reciprocal, but it remained under British control. However, times are different after all, and nationalist sentiment is on the rise after Iran's reading power.

Rising nationalist sentiment forced the democratically elected politicians of the time to consider nationalizing Iranian oil, or at least a little more in the British-owned Anglo-Iranian oil company.

Prior to this, every time the Iranian political axe was slightly dissatisfied with the unscrupulous plundering of the British, the British would use the army to overthrow the Iranian political axe that was dissatisfied with them, and then prop up a puppet political axe again.

However, again, the times are different, and today's Britain is not the British Empire of the past, so in 50 years, when Britain wanted to repeat its old tricks and instigated many pro-British forces in Iran to launch a coup d'état, it was discovered by the Iranian political axe, resulting in all British diplomats being expelled from Iran.

The British were annoyed by the embargo on Iranian oil exports, which caused heavy losses to the Iranian economy, but the Mossad government was tough and refused to return the oil industry to the UK, but was only willing to negotiate the dividends to which the UK should be entitled.

Britain did not agree, and Prime Minister Winston Churchill decided to send troops to attack Iran, but, unfortunately, times have changed, and Britain is no longer the world leader. Therefore, Churchill asked US President Harry Truman for advice on whether Britain could send troops to Iran. If the United States refuses, can the American political axe use its American embassy in Iran to take the lead, and then let the British forces in Iran cooperate to carry out a coup d'état?

At that time, Truman rejected the British's proposal, because at that time, the United States wanted to win over the countries of the world with new reading power and establish a new international order led by the United States, which of course had to draw a clear line with the notorious old colonial imperialism.

Therefore, it was not until the belligerent Eisenhower came to power that Churchill's proposal was implemented.

The leading figure was Roosevelt Jr., the grandson of US President Roosevelt, who served in the CIA's Middle East Bureau.

After accepting the coup d'état, Roosevelt Jr. smuggled into Iran with a fake identity card, hid in a rented place rented by the British Intelligence Bureau, and began organizing a coup d'état.

As a result, under the leadership of the U.S. Embassy, Roosevelt Jr. used Iran's pro-British forces to finally overthrow Iran's democratically elected political axe.

After overthrowing the elected political axe, the United States and Britain agreed that the elected political axe would be influenced by public opinion and not in their interests, so they restored in Iran and re-established a feudal dynasty.

Of course, thanks to the contribution of the United States, Britain could no longer own Anglo-Iranian oil on its own, so it was reorganized into the current BP, which became the famous BP company, and allowed the other eight Western oil companies to share the spoils.

The success of this coup d'état has had a profound impact on the world, because it has allowed the United States to find an economical and effective way to overthrow a foreign political axe that they do not like.

As a result, the CIA staged a coup d'état in Guatemala the following year, and then, intervened in almost every Central and South American country.

After propping up the Pahlavi dynasty, the United States began to innovate further in Iran, the same one played in Saudi Arabia a few years ago.

At the instigation of a variety of economic advisers from the United States, King Pahlavi used oil revenues to launch a large-scale socio-economic development program, which was to reshape a modern Iran according to the model of the United States.

It stands to reason that this should be a good plan, the Americans both made a fortune and controlled Iran, however, something went wrong.

The reason for the problem is that the Americans are too greedy, almost killing chickens and eggs, drying up and fishing, so that Iran's economic development is obviously out of touch with social development, exceeding the upper limit of national strength, and in addition to excessive military spending, causing serious economic imbalance, inflation, and a sharp decline in social production and people's living standards.

The root cause of Iran's so-called disaster today lies in the greed of the Americans.

The two major foreign policies of the United States today, such as overthrowing a foreign political axe that it does not like and controlling foreign economies with economic killers, both of America's foreign policies today began in Iran.

What to do? The bigwigs watched with pale faces as the situation in Iran changed.

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In the face of Iran's angry demonstrations, everything is irreparable, and neither can the Americans, who no matter how arrogant they are, will not dare to send American GIs to Iranian soil.

Without the intervention of force, the results cannot be changed.

On January 16, 1979, Shah Pahlavi and his family left Iran.

Iran rejoices.

On 1 February, religious leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returned to Tehran on an Air France Boeing plane.

Millions of people welcomed Khomeini's return, who was overwhelmed by the enthusiastic crowd after leaving the airport in a car and forced to switch to a helicopter.

Khomeini became not only the inevitable leader of the revolution, but also the god of Iran, with high prestige.

With the return of Ayatollah Khomeini, the power struggle in Iran has suddenly become fierce.

There were many forces against the Pahlavi dynasty, the most important of which were the religious forces led by Khomeini and the left-wing revolutionary organizations, and after the overthrow of the Pahlavi, the old army became another powerful force.

On May 5, Khomeini established the Revolutionary Guards to counter the left-wing militants and the king's military power.

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The United States, the Soviet Union, Britain, France, and China are all closely monitoring the changes in the situation in Iran, but no one dares to intervene in this chaotic time.

Interfering is not only for fear of making the wrong bet, but also for fear of attracting counterattacks from other forces. So, at this time, the evolution of the situation in Iran was not subject to foreign interference.

The overthrow of Pahlavi, a staunch friend of the United States, is naturally excellent news for China, but it is still unknown whether the evolution of the situation in Iran will ultimately be beneficial to China.

If Iran continues to maintain friendly relations with the United States, China will not be able to benefit from it.

Han Yuan's staff was primarily tasked with studying international issues, and they were the first to foresee great changes in Iran, in the late sixties, when they advocated supporting Ayatollah Khomeini and accelerating the change in the situation in Iran, but Han Lihong did not adopt it.

The staff chose to support Khomeini both because the opposition led by Khomeini is the strongest, but more importantly because of Khomeini's political views.

Preaching that it is the sacred mission of Shiite Islam to fight injustice and tyranny through resistance and even martyrdom, and that Muslims should resist the influence of liberal capitalism and [***], Khomeini proposed "neither east nor west - Islamic Republic!" slogan.

If "neither east nor west" can be Iran's national policy, then there is no doubt that China's opportunity has come.

Unlike the United States and the Soviet Union, China now needs only economic benefits from Iran: oil and petrodollars.

At present, although the situation in Iran has great opportunities for China, there are still too many variables.

Iran's policy of "neither leaning east nor west" can be accepted by both the United States and the Soviet Union, and it is undoubtedly in Iran's national interest to balance between the United States and the Soviet Union, so if this is the case, the benefits that China can gain in Iran must be very limited.

As far as China is concerned, there is nothing wrong with good relations between Iran and the Soviet Union, and the Soviet Union does not seem to care much about economic problems, so the situation that the General Staff Committee hopes for most is that Iran will fall out with the United States, and it will be a complete collapse.

This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, and many people advocate intervening and provoking a conflict between Iran and the United States, but Han Lihong has denied it.

For the people of the Staff Committee, the reverence for Han Lihong was incomprehensible, but this did not affect their questioning of some of Han Lihong's decisions in the slightest.

They absolutely obeyed Han Lihong's orders, but what should be questioned will still be questioned, which is the core idea that Han Lihong has always instilled in the Staff Committee.

Han Lihong rarely explained his decision, he asked the staff team to find the answer by itself, and this time it was the same.

In this matter, those who advocate meddling in Iran think that Han Lihong's decision is somewhat conservative, and they believe that there is no danger in doing something in Iran at this time.

So, why not do it?

Just when the staff was becoming more and more anxious, a piece of information made them excited: the overthrown Shah Pahlavi was critically ill and asked to enter the United States for medical treatment.

Although Khomeini has an advantage, it is only an advantage, and Khomeini's goal is by no means an advantage, he must want to establish the Republic of Iran in his mind.

If the United States allows Pahlavi to enter the United States, Khomeini will certainly seize this opportunity to stir up hatred against the United States, and then gather stronger public opinion to eliminate other countering forces.

Will the American political axe be stupid and agree to Pahlavi's request?

(To be continued)