135 kilometers south of Tehran, the capital of Iran, is the holy city of Qom.

Mosques of different styles. The domes of the mosques, the solemn arches and the towering minarets and spires give the holy city a strong Islamic overtone, and Qom has long been the center of Shia leadership. There are several historic seminaries that are Shia centers for Islamic theological education and research. And the great spiritual leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini lives here, which has become the de facto center of power in Iran.

Khomeini spent most of his life here, where he studied, where he lectured on Islamic theology and philosophy, where he became one of the six great ayatollahs of Iran's Shia, where he lectured, where he staged the uprising against the pro-American Bavilies, and here he has too much glorious history.

Every time he comes here, he will feel calm, this is the holy city of the Islamic world, here, it makes him wise.

Recently, there have been a lot of things that have bothered Khomeini, and the situation in Iran has become less and less optimistic. He came here in the hope that he could calm himself down and have more time to think.

The battle with Iraq has been lost one after another, and the territory in the southwest has been lost, where Iran is the main oil production and refining center, and now, even the port of Khomeini, which bears his name, has been almost razed to the ground by the Iraqis.

What is even more chilling is that Iran's chemical weapons were discovered by Iraq and by the international community.

Chemical weapons are weapons that are expressly prohibited from being used by both belligerents by international conventions, but where can any international conventions be held by belligerents who have been anxious! The Iraqis have flattened the port of Khomeini, why not use chemical weapons and die with the enemy?

However, Western countries have made a big fuss about this matter, and even the United Nations has repeatedly asked for weapons inspectors to be sent into Iran to search for this weapon of mass destruction, but Khomeini has resolutely refused.

Weapons verification? The Americans also have chemical weapons, why don't you go to the United States for verification? Khomeini is very tough, and in this case, the UN has nothing to do.

The voices of Western countries are very strong, but Khomeini is not afraid of these voices at all, he has withstood all kinds of pressure from the international community, and it is not the first time, the United States has stopped all trade with Iran and imposed sanctions.

"Teacher, it's late at night, you better rest!" At this time, Ayatollah Yazdi said.

When Khomeini lectured at the famous Fiizier seminary in Qom in his early years, ayatollah was Khomeini's student, so he was called a teacher.

Today, the ayatollah is one of the members of the expert parliament and has a lot of power in Iran.

After the success of the Islamic Revolution, Khomeini implemented a political system in Iran that was unique in the world in terms of theocracy and theocracy. This political system is divided into two major systems: the system of religious leaders and the system of political axes. The system of religious leaders is a guardianship system, with absolute power, above the legislative, executive, and judicial branches; The political axe system governs the country specifically, in which the parliament and the president are elected by universal suffrage, but both operate under the guardianship of religious leaders.

In addition to these, there is also a supervisory body behind the Supreme Leader: the Council of Experts. It is composed of 86 Islamic clerics, who, in addition to electing and supervising the supreme leader, can also depose the leader if he is incompetent or otherwise necessary.

In this case, the president has no real power in Iran at all, for example, Aber, who has fled, is the first president of Iran, but he has not done anything, he is disgusted with Khomeini's theocratic rule above all else, and as a result, he was deposed.

Ayatollah, one of Khomeini's trusted confidants, knew that the Supreme Spiritual Leader was bothered by chemical weapons.

In fact, Iran had the ability to make chemical weapons back in the days of the Bavile dynasty, and at that time, it was close to the United States, and everything could be bought, and they stored some of the raw materials in a pesticide factory near Tehran and an insecticide factory in Kerman.

Originally, Khomeini did not want to use chemical weapons, but the course of the war has forced him to take this step, the country has been lost, and as a leader, he must think about Iran's interests!

The two factories began to secretly manufacture sarin, and then, transported to the front line of the port of Khomeini, where it was most scarce. As a result, before the Iraqi army attacked, it was discovered by the Iraqi detachment that had infiltrated in advance, and it was revealed to the world.

The Ayatollahs have always resolutely carried out the instructions of the Supreme Leader, and he knows that these two factories are still in production, because Iran has no choice!

"Yazdi," Khomeini said, "what do you think about our war with Iraq?" ”

Recently, with the successive victories of the Iraqi army, especially the port of Khomeini, Khomeini knows that in the lower echelons, other voices may emerge.

"We are waging a just war to export the Islamic Revolution, Iraq has desecrated the sacred teachings of Islam, and it is incumbent upon us, as the center of Islamic civilization, to export our revolution to other countries." Ayatollah said.

"That's not what I want." Khomeini said: "Don't you have other ideas? ”

"Teacher, although Iraq now occupies some advantages, our land area is several times that of Iraq, and the population far exceeds theirs, and our war potential is very large, although Iraq now occupies our land, they do not have a great advantage, and as time goes by, the situation will become more and more favorable to us." "In World War II, Germany occupied almost all of Europe, but it was defeated, and in the Far East, I occupied most of China, and in the end we were defeated, and I believe that we will achieve the final victory!" Justice will prevail! ”

Justice will prevail! This sentence suddenly pierced Khomeini's heart, and he firmly believed that he was completely right to do what he was doing now, and that the Islamic world is a pure world, and it must not be Westernized by those things in the West!

Khomeini looked at the shadows of the mosques in Qom in the night, and his heart began to calm down.

"Now Iraq is able to gain an advantage, and that is because of the support of Western countries, especially the United States." Ayatollah continued: "Actually, we can use some other means, such as the last time we occupied the US embassy in our country, to force the other side to make concessions, and without the support of Western countries, Iraq will have no back-up." The ayatollah thought about it for a long time before saying this.

After the Islamic Revolution, patriotic students seized sixty-six Americans from the U.S. Embassy with great success.

Khomeini's eyes lit up, the United States is the Great Satan, and they are now supporting Iraq's aggression against themselves, repeating the same way once again to force the United States to make concessions?

Give it a try! Khomeini's eyes have lit up.

For Iran, whatever means are used, it is worth it!

He looked up, the night was still dark, but the eyes were bright, although he was old, but his heart was still not old, in the Middle East, Iran is the center of Islamic civilization, is the hegemon!

…………… Fibiel piloted the Mirage F1 fighter jet, and behind him were three other Mirages of his 11th Combat Squadron, and under their wings mounted two of Iraq's latest research weapons, the Redbird II cruise missile.

At the beginning of the Iran-Iraq war, Iraq needed to import almost most of its equipment, except for being able to manufacture some light weapons, and now, the advanced missiles mounted under their wings are produced by Iraq itself, which is a huge progress!

This is a ground attack, so two RedBird-2 cruise missiles are mounted at the root of the wings, and a huge auxiliary fuel tank is mounted under the fuselage, which carries a low-low-high combat mode, that is, entering from a low altitude, completing the launch mission at a low altitude, and returning from a high altitude after disengagement.

On the outside of the wing, there are short-range air-to-air missiles.

After taking off from Basra airfield, they flew over Ahvaz and into the area of de facto control of Iran, lowered their altitude, and then, having chosen the flight route they had already found in advance, avoided the opponent's ground-based radar, bypassed Arak, and after flying over Qom, they could launch two cruise missiles under the wings.

After entering the airspace of the Iranians, Fibil carefully checked and confirmed that all the navigation lights were turned off, and in the dark night, if the navigation lights were turned on, it would be tantamount to looking for death, and the opponent's anti-aircraft artillery would kill the unprepared himself.

There is a small amount of starlight tonight, and this kind of night voyage is a night voyage with less technical difficulty.

However, with the stars twinkling in the sky and city lights on the ground, pilots are prone to the illusion of flight when they are nervous or inattentive in the cabin. The plane was originally in level flight, but the pilot always felt that the plane had a slope, or felt that the plane was up or down, so he unconsciously corrected it, and the more the correction was made, the greater the error, and finally led to irreparable serious danger. This is somewhat similar to the illusion of flight caused by sailing on the sea and the sky line, and the solution is very simple: firmly believe in the instrument! Fly strictly according to the instructions of the instrument.

As veterans of almost eight hundred hours of flying experience, the pilots of the 11th Fighter Squadron did not have a very difficult flight.

The navigation system of the Mirage F1 was already very accurate, and when it bypassed Arak, it took advantage of the city's light position to rest the course, and Fibir was full of confidence in this attack.

Approaching Qom, Fibir began to order the assault squadron to prepare to power up the cruise missiles and activate the two missiles below.

………… Khomeini was just about to walk into his mud house when he suddenly heard a sound similar to thunder in the distance: Is it going to rain?

When he looked up, he saw a few yellow points of light in the dark night sky, among the faintly twinkling stars, constantly moving.

Meteor?

Ayatollah's expression tightened: "Teacher, I'm afraid it's a fighter from the night flight!" ”

Due to the shortage of spare parts, Iran has very few fighter jets taking off before it is time to fight, and what night flight training is it conducting? Khomeini also immediately understood.

"Immediately order the Air Force, take off urgently, and intercept these Iraqi planes!"

(To be continued)