A few days ago, the U.S. Command issued a statement saying that last month, the U.S. Navy seized a cargo ship in the Arabian Sea a shipment of equipment from Iran and destined for the Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen, including more than 200 boxes of missile parts, items and other devices.
Michael Kurilla, commander of the U.S. Command, commented, "This is yet another example of Iran's malign activities in the region." ”
If you want me to say, the commander of the US military might as well not say this, even Chinese netizens know that Iran is behind the Houthis, how can the United States not know? What's more, the ** intercepted by the US military last month was not released until more than half of this month, so why did the United States go for more than half a month?
In fact, in my opinion, the announcement of the interception of Iran by the US military is not a knock on Iran, or a deliberate attempt to attack Iran, but the result of an internal struggle in the United States. In other words, after this news is announced, I am afraid that Biden is also quite worried in his heart, because if this matter is not handled well, the United States will have to say goodbye to the Middle East completely.
Why?
Everyone should still remember that after the attack on the secret base of the United States in Jordan some time ago, the US military suffered heavy casualties, and everyone thought that Iran would usher in the thunderous anger of the US military. It shows that Biden does not want to go to war with Iran, and he does not want to get out of the quagmire in the Middle East, so he will not provoke Iran if he can. So the matter about the interception of Iran** is obvious, Biden ** does not want to make this matter public, so as not to provoke contradictions between the United States and Iran, so he pretends that nothing happens. However, it is clear that there are people in the United States who have different opinions, and under the pressure of this force, the news of the interception of Iran was forced to be made public half a month later.
Now that the news has been released, Biden has to take measures in response to Iran, so we see that the US Treasury Department just announced the latest sanctions against Iran a few days ago. Do such sanctions work? To be honest, it can't hurt Iran at all, it's just a superficial effort. Therefore, such a means will definitely not be able to satisfy the hardliners in the United States, and the follow-up pressure on Biden will inevitably follow.
Frankly speaking, in this round of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, Iran is definitely a MVP-level performance, and has spotted the weakness of the US military not daring to take the initiative to attack Iran, and has frantically attacked the United States and Israel at several points such as the Houthis, Iraqi militias, and Hamas, especially the Houthis, which directly pierced the camouflage of the US "paper tiger".
Of course, the reason why Iran dares to do this must be confident, and it is reasonable to guess that it has a strong correlation with the Saudi-Iranian rapprochement in March last year. The Saudi-Iranian rapprochement has laid the foundation for Iran to stabilize its external environment, and after the outbreak of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, it has received security guarantees from certain forces, so that it has the confidence and courage to touch the ass of the "paper tiger" of the United States. That's why we say that the water behind the Palestinian-Israeli conflict is very deep, and if the United States does not handle it properly, at least in the Middle East, there will be no soil for the survival of American hegemony.