Chairman Mao once said: "Imperialism and all reactionaries are paper tigers. It is true that history and facts have also proved the true face of the imperialist paper tiger, and the United States, as the only superpower in the world today, pursues hegemonism and power politics around the world, which is not fundamentally different from the imperialist acts of a hundred years ago.
But as time went on, people gradually saw the united states as it really was. Especially since Biden took office, in order to rejoin the Iranian nuclear agreement and make a huge compromise on the Iranian side, Biden finally gave in, which made all countries see the fact that the United States is weak, and even think that the United States today is like a toothless tiger.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="4" >: the U.S.-Iran game has been a long-standing grudge</h1>
Since Lang launched the Islamic Revolution in 1979, overthrowing the pro-American Pahlavi dynasty, and then triggering the Iranian hostage-taking of the US Embassy in Iran, the relations between the United States and Iran have deteriorated sharply, and soon after the United States announced that it would completely break diplomatic relations with Iran and implement a policy of containment and isolation against Iran.
After the outbreak of the Iran-Iraq War, the United States openly supported Iraq in an attempt to contain Iran or even transform Iran through the Iran-Iraq War, but it backfired. In order to stabilize the situation in the Middle East, the United States began to throw an olive branch to Iran, willing to ease the tense relationship between the United States and Iran, but was strongly rejected by the Iranian side. U.S.-Iran relations have been in a state of tension.
After Clinton took office, the United States once again waved the stick of sanctions against Iran, and adopted a policy of isolated blockade and pressure on Iran on the grounds that Iran supported international terrorist activities. On September 11, 2001, terrorists hijacked two civil airliners and crashed into Building 1 and 2 of the World Trade Center in the United States, causing an uproar throughout the United States.
The U.S. military has entered the highest state of alert, the United States has stepped up its fight against terrorism, and Iran, which is considered by the Americans to support international terrorist activities, has also been targeted by the Americans. After 9/11, the United States became increasingly tough on Iran, listing Iran as an axis of evil, and U.S.-Iran relations further deteriorated.
In the face of the united states pressing forward, although Iran is still tough in diplomatic attitude, the gap in strength between the United States and Iran is huge, and the all-round sanctions of the United States have greatly restricted Iran's development, and it is much behind the United States in military and economic aspects. Looking at the whole process of the deterioration of US-Iran relations, almost the United States has occupied the initiative.
Iran has chosen to strike back hard for various reasons, and it is bound to suffer a blow from the United States, and since Iran is not willing to be at the mercy of the United States, it must develop nuclear weapons, which are strategic weapons with extremely strong deterrent power, and since then the Iranian nuclear issue has become a major topic of US-Iran relations.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="6" > two: the Iranian nuclear problem, tortuous and complex</h1>
Iran, which was backed by Western countries in the 1950s, began to develop nuclear energy, and iran already had a nuclear power plant before the Islamic Revolution. With the rapid deterioration of US-Iran relations, the United States has frequently launched wars around Iran and deployed troops, which has made Iranians feel great pressure.
If the United States declares war against Iran, it will be difficult for Iran to stop the US military, and out of many considerations, Iran has decided to secretly develop nuclear weapons and implement strategic deterrence against the United States. In 2003, under the condemnation of the international community and under the pressure of the United States and European countries, Iran formally signed the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons.
The paris agreement was finally reached in Paris in 2004, but due to the huge differences between the two sides on key issues, the Paris agreement was not implemented. During the Iranian ahmadinejad government, Iran restarted nuclear weapons research activities and achieved major research successes, becoming one of the international "nuclear powers".
Iran's move has aroused strong uneasiness in the international community, and China, the United States, France, Britain, Germany and Russia held six-party talks on the Iranian nuclear issue, which did not reach substantive results. After several years of stalemate, Iran proposed a new solution to the Iranian nuclear issue, the purpose of which is to lift Western economic sanctions on Iran, after five years of arduous negotiations.
The historic comprehensive agreement on the Iranian nuclear issue marked a successful resolution of the thirteen-year-old international dispute. Just when the international community breathed a sigh of relief on the Iranian nuclear issue, accidents quietly occurred, and the Iranian nuclear issue once again faced a tendency to be expanded.
After taking office, Trump, the overall us, set off a wave of US "withdrawal from the group" around the world, withdrawing from the Paris Agreement, withdrawing from the Human Rights Council, withdrawing from the INF Treaty, etc. Among them, the United States announced its unilateral withdrawal from the Iranian nuclear agreement and caused a world uproar.
Three years ago, when Iran fulfilled the commitments made in the Iranian nuclear agreement, the United States found Iran to carry out nuclear tests in violation of the law on trumped-up charges, unilaterally announced its withdrawal from the Iranian nuclear agreement, and imposed the most severe sanctions on Iran, which is known as the most severe sanctions in history. In the face of the empty moves of the United States, Iran, in response to the United States, began to gradually terminate the implementation of the provisions of the Iranian nuclear agreement.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="8" > three: compromised United States, back to the Iranian nuclear agreement</h1>
Since Trump took office, the US policy toward Iran has undergone a huge change, after withdrawing from the Iranian nuclear agreement, in the face of international accusations, Trump is still obstinate, adopting a so-called extreme pressure policy on Iran, deliberately provoking disputes between the two sides.
What's more, Trump ordered the assassination of Sulaimani, commander of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, causing national anger in Iran. The United States has frequently intervened in the Middle East, and although Iran has a tough attitude, it has nothing to do with the United States. With the end of Trump's term, the United States ushered in the Biden era.
Unlike Trump, the Biden administration is eager to repair U.S. relations with its allies and other countries, an important part of which is the U.S. return to the JCPOA to stabilize the situation on all sides. The new US administration threw an olive branch to Iran, but did not get a positive response from iran.
Not long ago, the talks between the two sides of the Iranian nuclear agreement were held in Vienna, but the United States and Iran did not meet directly, but negotiated through word-of-mouth. Not surprisingly, there are huge differences between the United States and Iran over the negotiations on the Iranian nuclear agreement, but unlike in the past, Iran seems to have the initiative in this negotiation.
The US side did not immediately agree to it, but maintained a wait-and-see attitude. Iran's approach is beyond reproach, after all, the United States unreasonably "withdraws from the group" first, and Iran has seized this opportunity to put forward more demands on the United States, so will the United States, which has always been high-spirited, agree to Iran's demands?
Not long ago, according to the latest news, the United States and Iran reached an agreement on the major issues of the Iranian nuclear agreement, and on the issue of the United States returning to the Iranian nuclear agreement, the Iranian side has always maintained a tough attitude, but the negotiations have made significant progress, and it can be inferred that the United States has made huge compromises and concessions in the negotiations.
The Iranian side once again stressed that it hopes that the United States can remain "honest" on the Iranian nuclear agreement, and the warning is full of meaning. Through the return of the United States to the Iranian nuclear agreement, to some extent, all countries are about to see the weak side of the United States, and even some people think that the United States is now a toothless tiger, tough on the surface, but in fact weak, as the world hegemon, is the United States really a paper tiger now? What are the reasons for compromises?
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="10" >4: The weakened United States, Yu Wei is still there</h1>
First of all, the worms of the hundred legs are dead and not stiff, and the rise of a superpower is not an overnight event, and the decline and fall of the same world hegemon must go through a period of time. It is undeniable that today's United States is quite embattled, with a series of major social problems to be solved, such as the new crown epidemic and racial conflicts, the rise of external powers, and a series of external factors of the change of the international order, which impact the original hegemony of the United States.
Biden took over a domestic and external troubles of the United States, from the overall strength point of view, the United States is still a superpower, but in fact, the crisis is fraught, Biden as a senior politician, well aware of the dilemma of the United States, began to actively repair relations with some countries. In this case, a return to the JCPOA is inevitable.
Making compromises and concessions is also a helpless move, which does reflect that the United States is a little weak in dealing with global affairs. Second, the compromise and concession of the United States does not mean that the United States is really a vulnerable paper tiger. The great man once said that we should despise the opponent strategically and pay attention to the opponent tactically.
Taking China as an example, calling the United States a paper tiger is more of a strategic contempt, and when it comes to actually responding to challenges from the United States, China is going all out and being cautious. The United States made concessions on the Iranian nuclear agreement in order to better concentrate its efforts on fighting its main opponents.
After Biden took office, his China policy remained tough, and military operations in China's South China Sea were frequent, and he even had to entangle the aircraft carrier fleets of several countries into China's South China Sea. It can be seen that Biden's global strategy is to focus on attacks, rather than going to war.
Under the guidance of this kind of thinking, the United States naturally cannot make enemies everywhere, and the temporary compromise is also reasonable. In the end, the COMPROMISE AND CONCESSIONS on the JCPOA are more for the purpose of reshaping the image of the United States. The incoming United States as a whole Trump stirred up trouble around the world, especially to the relationship between the United States and its allies, caused great damage, undermined the image of the United States on the world stage, and even made some countries go to the opposite side of the United States.
The Biden administration's compromises and concessions on the Iranian nuclear agreement have sent a signal to the countries of the world that the United States is willing to sit down and negotiate effectively with some countries. Small and medium-sized countries are naturally unwilling to make enemies of the United States, a behemoth, and it is impossible to remain indifferent in the face of the friendly signals released by the United States.
Perhaps the concessions made by the United States on the Iranian nuclear agreement have a compromise and weakness side, but it is not a manifestation of political wisdom, and the Chinese people must still maintain a high degree of vigilance.