On the Middle East issue, Iran is a very sensitive country, and Israel has been warning Iran that it hopes that Iran will not interfere more, otherwise, Israel will not show mercy, and as a staunch supporter of Israel, the United States is also particularly concerned about Iran's every move.
At this critical moment, there is still something going on between the United States and Iran!
Iran is highly concerned about the situation in Palestine and in the Gaza Strip. As a powerful country in the Middle East and a country that has been in confrontation with the United States for a long time, Iranian Foreign Minister Abdollahian recently released harsh words, saying that if there is no way to stop the massacres in the Palestinian Gaza Strip, then the flames of conflict will not spare any country. And, in the coming days, Iran will hold large-scale exercises, during which the Iranian army will use all types of ** equipment in service.
At such a point in time, Iran is clearly targeting the United States and Israel when it makes such a statement. In particular, it clearly expressed its opposition to Israel's so-called ground operation in the Gaza Strip, but what the world and Iran did not expect was that Iran had just released its harsh words, and within a few days, the Americans immediately took a strike.
According to a report by the Associated Press on the 27th, early Friday local time, the U.S. military directly dispatched relevant military forces and launched direct air attacks on two strongholds related to the Iranian army in Syria. U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin said that the reason why the U.S. military did this was to deal with a series of attacks on U.S. military bases in the Middle East by militia groups backed by Iran in recent times. Moreover, the US military has also given a new term to its own operation, which is called "precision self-defense attack"!
On the surface, the action appears to be a "personal vendetta" between the United States and Iran, and the U.S. military is also an attack on itself in retaliation for Iranian-backed militant groups. But in fact, anyone with a discerning eye knows that the US military is doing this for the sake of a strong deterrent, to ensure that Israel's military action can be carried out normally, and to make Iran stop the relevant assistance to the Hamas militant group and some external actions that may be taken.
For the United States, such a tough direct military attack on Iran's armed groups and strongholds is the first time that the US military has used offensive armed force in the Middle East since the outbreak of the Middle East crisis.
This would have three benefits for the United States:
1. Strengthen its presence in the Middle East.
Now, the United States has gathered two aircraft carriers and related battle groups in the Middle East, and in addition to maintaining the oppressive force of strength, through this military operation, it has also shown other countries in the Middle East that the United States still has the military capability to do whatever it wants and can attack any target.
2. Deter countries that have been preparing to support the Palestinian Hamas armed groups, including Iran.
To put it bluntly, the Americans have not used this method once or twice. It can indeed have a corresponding effect.
3. Make it for the world to see.
Through this operation, the United States obviously wants the international community to see that the United States still has control over the Middle East, and that it can still use offensive force when necessary, and that the US military can ensure its own interests and not suffer losses in the Middle East, no matter what kind of country the other side is.
At the same time, however, from an objective point of view, although the United States is doing so in a certain way in its own interests, it may be counterproductive to the regional situation.
First, will Iran really give in?Attacking one or two strongholds outside Iran's territory is almost impossible to bring a country that has long been antagonistic to the United States to its knees. It is foreseeable that after this action by the Americans, Iran will most likely engage in-for-tat actions. And the target of the attack will not only be limited to US military bases in the Middle East, but the Palestinian-Israeli conflict on its doorstep may be a place where Iran is making a big fuss.
Second, the Americans are adding fuel to the fire. Since the outbreak of the conflict between Hamas and Israel on the 7th of this month, the situation in the entire Middle East has become highly tense. Some of the so-called retaliatory acts taken by Israel have already aroused great concern and corresponding opposition from the international community, and the Americans have clearly pulled the strings away from the rapid support of Israel after the outbreak of the conflict. Now, for the first time, offensive force has been used in the Middle East, which is a heavy blow and damage to the peace situation in the Middle East, which is already at a very weak stage, and it is tantamount to adding fuel to the fire.
Therefore, taking into account the above reasons, we can see that if the US military really wants peace in the Middle East, even if it really wants to adopt so-called precise self-defense, it does not have to provoke the situation between the two sides at such a sensitive period.