June, 2022
Part I. Israel bombs a nuclear plant in Iran
Chapter 23. U.S. military embarks on (1)
Al
Udeid Air Force Base in Qatar is a forward headquarter of the US Central
Command. Its operation covers from Afghanistan to the Arabian Peninsula and
throughout the Indian Ocean. It is an important US air base that keeps eye on
the Gulf countries and Iran.
The
Persian Gulf is one of the world's leading oil producing areas. And the sea
route from the Persian Gulf to Indian Ocean through the Strait of Hormuz is called
the "tanker sea lane". It is the main artery of the world energy
transportation. Therefore, it is very important to ensure the safety of sea
lanes for the United States. However, as far as energy is concerned, the United
States itself is less dependent on oil in the Persian Gulf nowadays. The most
affected countries are its allies in the Asia, such as India, Japan, South
Korea and Taiwan. It looks like that the United States is the patron of Asian
countries by protecting their tanker sea lane.
But
today, the United States put more emphasis on Ira than sea lanes in the Persian
Gulf. During the Shah regime before 1978, the United States sold large
quantities of modern weapons to Iran. Iran acted as a "police in the
Persian Gulf" and entrusting security to the region on behalf of the
United States. In 1978 the Islamic Revolution was taken place by Ayatollah Khomeini.
Since then, Iran has been a mortal enemy for the United States.
Immediately
after the revolution, the US embassy in Tehran was occupied by the
Khomeini-backed Revolutionary Guard for over a year. This has hurt the prestige
of the United States. The U.S. President Jimmy Carter attempted a rescue
operation. But the operation had been failed with the poor result as a rescue
helicopter crash landing. The U.S. government disgraced itself. This left a
deep trauma in the minds of the American people.
Later,
the United States used military reconnaissance satellites to search for Iran's
movements during the Iran-Iraq War, and transmitted that information to Iraq and
supported them to beat Iran. The Hussein dictatorship in Iraq at that time was
completely unacceptable to the United States. But it was said that the enemy's
enemy was an ally, that was to say Iraq was an U.S. ally. The United States
eventually encouraged the Hussein administration and finally resulted in the
invasion into Kuwait, the Gulf War and the Iraq War. It was the irony of
history.
US
diplomacy related to Iran and the Arab countries was random. It caused the
confusion in the region. But US diplomacy was otherwise consistent. It was the
absolute diplomacy of the United States in the Middle East to support Israel. It
undoubtedly caused further confusion in the Middle East, too.
(cont’d)
Areha
Kazuya
(From
an ordinary citizen in the cloud)
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