Chapter 343: Rogue Duel
Tehran.
From a C-130 transport plane, landed on the airfield of the air base near Tehran.
The cabin door opened, the car stopped at the cabin door, and countless soldiers moved boxes of things out from inside.
Khomeini also arrived at the scene, he looked at the things in the cabin, and said to the other senior personnel around him: "With these things, our air force can be rejuvenated again, right?" ”
"Yes, we will be able to restore at least thirty Tomcats, and, with the Immortal Bird missiles, we will deal a heavy blow to the Iraqis!" Said Air Force Commander Hawamy.
"In addition to aircraft parts, we also got Tao anti-tank missiles, so that we have a better means of attack when facing the Iraqi tanks." This was also stated by the Minister of the Revolutionary Guards, Mohsin Rafiq Doust.
This time, the Yankees really gave them so many weapons, proving that the effect of this adventure to take American hostages is really good.
However, they also have some worries that the great spiritual leader Ayatollah Khomeini will make a decision, release a small number of hostages, and continue to squeeze the oil and water out of the Americans.
"Great leader," said Foreign Minister Velayati, "if we do this, will the Americans send us new weapons?" If this hijacking incident is not resolved as soon as possible, I'm afraid the Americans will not be reconciled, right? ”
"Yes, the Americans will definitely not be reconciled, but they have already taken the first step, and they can only continue to walk." Khomeini said.? Velayati was puzzled, and neither were the others.
"The Americans can only continue to send us weapons, otherwise we will poke the inside story of this deal out." Khomeini said.
I see! Everyone else understood.
Although Khomeini has always preached that Americans are the Great Satan, but now what he is doing now, I am afraid... However, then Velayati tried to let the idea fly out of his mind, he knew that this was a choice that Iran had no choice but to make, and now that the whole world was against Iran and Iraq was aggressive, Iran could only take this particular method if it wanted to regain the occupied territories.
If he is just a soldier, then he can choose to fight openly, even if he dies on the battlefield, he will be honorable, but he is the leader of a country, he must do everything possible to make the country persevere, and all kinds of means are forced and necessary to do so.
With the arrival of this batch of parts, Iran will have the capital to continue fighting with Iraq, Iran attaches great importance to the power of the air force, and now, as the air force is revitalized again, they will definitely counterattack as soon as possible.
However, this batch of parts will not be able to hold out on to a complete counterattack on Iraq, so it is very normal for the Yankees to vomit more blood.
Everything, for Iran!
"The Air Force must be ready, we will start recovering from the port of Khomeini!" Khomeini said.
How can the port that bears his name be ravaged by the Iraqis that is now being ravaged by the Iraqis? The cold wind blew, and Khomeini felt a little cold, after all, he was already an old man, an old man who had experienced countless hardships.
"Yes!" "Moreover, we are going to bomb the Abadan refinery, and the Iraqis have occupied our land and intercepted our oil resources, which is unforgivable," Hawami said. ”
At this time, almost the whole world knew about the Abadan refinery, but Abadan had already gained enough strategic depth that it would not be able to bomb without the protection of a strong air force.
None of them expected that they had planned to start a counteroffensive from the south, but the war in the north suddenly broke out.
On November 1, 1982, Iraq's Northern Military Region, after careful pre-war planning, officially launched an offensive plan codenamed Babylon Lion.
In Manwali, east of Baghdad, an Iraqi armored brigade quickly captured the border town of Sumar, protecting the southern flank and deterring Iranian forces in the south.
And in Naft Shahr, the rolling torrent of Iraq, under the protection of the infantry, along that important road, began to advance towards Bakhtaran.
At the same time, a large number of planes from Iraq's Northern Military Region flew out to indiscriminately bomb targets in Bakhtalan and Ilam, as if no one was there.
The Iranian army was slow to react, and they were knocked unconscious.
After a few months of silence, the Iran-Iraq war has once again developed into a new **, and other military experts who are concerned about this war have seen that Iraq's move is sinister and has captured the Iranian plateau, so what is their strategic goal? The biggest goal, I'm afraid, is to cross Hamadan and go straight to Tehran!
And at this time, the hostages of Tehran remained on that Boeing 707 plane.
After the dozens of hostages released returned to the United States by plane, the American political axe did not make high-profile propaganda, but only issued a few words, thanking Iran for its efforts in the hostage crisis, and the United States will definitely pay more attention to progress and so on.
The media in the United States, on the other hand, have already attracted attention to the renewed outbreak of war, and the hostages have been released in batches for the hijackings, which have lost even more of their newsworthiness.
However, in the top echelons of the United States, it is not so calm.
President Reagan was furious.
"This is **naked blackmail! Khomeini is taking hostages and threatening us! Reagan can't care about his identity, he was born as an actor, and he was already very emotional, but under this anger, his emotions were a little out of control.
Poindexter was very embarrassed, because, it was under his strong persuasion that the think tank finally passed the practice of sending weapons to Iran in exchange for hostages, but, unexpectedly, the old hooligan Khomeini actually played a trick on them!
Weapons, already given to them, however, the hostages were only partially exchanged.
What does Khomeini mean? Then give him weapons, and then exchange them for hostages!
Moreover, everyone thought of a terrible possibility: even if this batch of hostages is exchanged, as long as Khomeini's weapons are not enough, he can take new hostages at any time and come to the United States to ask for weapons!
As soon as this case is opened, there will be endless troubles!
"I think we did something wrong last time." Weinberg said: "We must not compromise on terrorist activities, although there are all kinds of possibilities that made us make the decision last time, but we have all forgotten one thing, we are facing a hooligan!" ”
In fact, if you look at history, you can find that the world's largest hooligan, known to everyone, grossly interferes in the internal affairs of other countries, and uses force to act as the world's policeman in the world, but the most frustrating thing about the hooligan is that he meets a hooligan who is more rogue than him, and this hooligan has no real strength to confront him, but he is a hooligan!
Everyone felt very bad.
Everyone had a look of remorse, but they didn't expect that the people at the top of their most powerful country were really fooled by a god.
"Your Excellency the President, let our troops be dispatched, this time, we must live up to our mission, taking advantage of the opportunity of Iraq to attack Iran, they will definitely relax their attention to the hostage incident, and we will rescue all the hostages!" Weinberg said.
Force! The United States has a strong armed force, and the army armed with taxpayers' money is to defend taxpayers, otherwise they will lose the need to exist.
"Ladies and gentlemen, we must face the situation on the Iranian side with the utmost vigilance." Vice President Bush, who has been thinking about it, said.
"Bush, tell me about it." Reagan said.
"We have come to realize that when dealing with Ayatollah Khomeini, he has never been trustworthy, and this hostage crisis is a living example of the fact that we have taken a wrong step, and this step may lead us into the abyss." Bush said.
"Be clear." Reagan said, and when he heard this, he calmed down.
"We have sent weapons to Iran in exchange for some of the hostages, which can be said, in fact, we have succeeded partially, we just don't know, Khomeini's appetite is so big, but, I'm afraid, there is no turning back, if, we stop exchanging weapons for hostages, then, even if our special forces are dispatched to rescue the remaining hostages, however, we will still fail, I believe that Khomeini will definitely disclose all the content of our deal!"
Suddenly, like a basin of cold water poured on their heads, everyone woke up.
Indeed it is!
What are they most afraid of? It was the truth of this matter that was revealed! The United States has always been very tough on terrorist actions, but what is happening now is a farce, sending weapons but not returning all the hostages!
Khomeini is the enemy of the Americans, and if the United States rescues the hostages in this way, it will lead to an unprecedented crisis of integrity in the political axe! If it's serious, it will even lead to the same ending as Carter!
The most hateful thing is that they are doing this, obviously to help Khomeini, this Khomeini not only does not appreciate it, but will also stick a knife in their back!
"Does Khomeini dare to do this?" Poindexter asked.
"I'm sure that if we don't agree to his request, he will dare, what else will he not dare to do?" Reagan said with a sneer.
"If the matter is revealed, I am willing to take all the responsibility alone!" Poyndexter said.
(In the Iran-Contra scandal that followed, this unfortunate bastard took all the blame and became the protagonist of this incident.) "Now is not the time to talk about that, what we need now is how to solve the problem. Reagan said.
"It seems that we still have to provide arms to Iran, after all, we have to bring back the hostages first." "At the same time, I would like to suggest that we lower our export restrictions to Iraq, because our previous strategy was problematic, and we will not be able to sleep until we defeat Ayatollah Khomeini," Secretary of State George said. ”
"But Iraq's Saddam Hussein was also an ambitious man." Poyndexter said.
"We have other means, for example, the Kurds who live in Iran and Iraq." George said.
(To be continued)