As the large-scale conflict between Palestine and Israel continues to escalate, many countries and the international community have called for Israel to lift the blockade of Gaza and reach a ceasefire to avoid harm to civilians.
However, the United States has ignored the voice of the international people, and not only has it not mediated a truce, but has stepped up its efforts to increase its military strength in the Middle East and provided a large amount of military assistance to Israel.
The Chief of the General Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces, Major General Bagheri, declared: the United States widely supports Israel, that is, "involved in criminal acts", which further complicates the situation in Gaza, and it is necessary to take "serious actions" to prevent war crimes, Iran has its own red lines, and if Israel continues to operate in the Gaza Strip, then it will have to intervene.
So do warnings work? The answer is obvious: the United States has always maintained its own supremacy, and the reason why the White House spares no effort to support Israel is to make war money, make a lot of money from killing and bloodshed, and demonstrate its own hegemony.
And the Israeli side shows no signs of stopping, and its defense minister, Yoaf Galant, has said that the goal of the Israeli army is to completely eliminate Hamas, so that this armed group "no longer exists" and the war may last for months.
As a result, the Gaza Strip continues to be under heavy artillery fire and indiscriminate shelling of many homes, which has killed thousands of people, many of them children and women.
The United States still does not support a ceasefire, and although it is forced to put down a so-called "humanitarian pause", that is, to persuade Israel to postpone its ground offensive, its true intentions are clear.
So Iran couldn't bear it anymore, and at a meeting of the 10th emergency special session of the UN General Assembly, Iranian Foreign Minister Abdollahian directly released cruel words:
"At the United Nations, I am open and honest with the American politicians who are dealing with the Palestinian genocide that we do not welcome the war spreading in the region, but I want to warn that if the genocide in Gaza continues, no one will escape the war."
It can be said that this time Iran has directly and finally had a showdown, not with a verbal warning, but with direct action.
It is reported that in the past few days, the Iranian armed forces are preparing to hold a large-scale exercise, at which the navy, army, air force, armored forces, missile forces, airborne troops, unmanned aerial vehicles, etc., will be dispatched, involving almost all equipment in the Iranian army.
Obviously, this move shows that Iran has the strength to compete with the US military, and it also shows that it is "preparing in advance" for a possible large-scale war.
In fact, since the United States and Iran broke off diplomatic relations more than 40 years ago, they have begun a long-term hostility and confrontation, but there has never been a large-scale frontal conflict, and almost all of them have been proxy wars.
It is no coincidence that the United States chose Iran as an ally, because the Iranian regime at the time was in the hands of a pro-Western-minded king who even dreamed of turning his country into an oriental oasis in Europe.
However, the shah knew that if he wanted to realize his dream, he had to get the political and economic support of Western countries, so during the Pahlavi dynasty's "White Revolution", that is, at the end of the 60s of the last century, nearly 4,000 Americans flocked to Iran in hopes of helping the shah implement the various reforms he had formulated.
However, the king's reforms were unpopular, especially in religious circles, which caused great resentment among the people, who believed that the total glorification of the country was incompatible with the traditions of Islam and would inevitably lead to the destruction of the norms of life of the Iranians.
In Iran, Islam is not just an appendage of state power, it is a symbol of state power.
By the mid-'70s, the White House was on pins and needles with growing anti-American sentiment in Iran, and in order not to lose Iran, those in power decided to engage more closely with Iran's military leadership in order to carry out a military coup if necessary.
However, the American plan was ultimately aborted in the outbreak of the popular revolutionary movement in Iran.
From February 9 to 12, 1979, the famous Tehran uprising broke out in Iran, which flooded the streets of the capital with millions of unarmed residents, which won the Iranian people and ushered in a new era of the Islamic era.
However, the United States did not want to see Iran do this, so it sent thousands of American spies to Iran to establish a "fifth column", which led to an explosion of righteous sentiment among Iranian revolutionary young students, who quickly occupied the US Embassy in Tehran in protest and took 52 Americans hostage.
In this way, the U.S.-Iraq honeymoon era came to an end, and the state since then has been a saber rattling between the two sides.
So, what will the United States think if Iran plays the card of multi-service mobilization exercises in a high-profile manner and makes the situation in the Middle East reversed in an instant?
In fact, the United States is very anxious, and the Biden administration has never had the idea of directly participating in the war, let alone preparing to start a full-scale war, but if it does not go to war, it means admitting defeat, and that is not the result that the White House wants to see, so it is a bit difficult to ride a tiger.
Coupled with the fact that most countries have supported Palestine so far, because Israel's killing of civilians has indeed caused public outrage, it can be said that the United States has fallen into an extremely passive situation, and if Iran does go to war, then the United States will have to bite the bullet.
On October 26, Biden ordered the U.S. military to launch an attack on two facilities of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and its affiliates in eastern Syria, firing 500-pound and 2,000-pound guided bombs.
In response to the operation, the Pentagon claimed that the operation had nothing to do with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, but was simply a response to a series of ongoing attacks by Iranian-backed militias against U.S. personnel in Iraq and Syria.
Since the 17th, US bases and personnel in Iraq have been attacked at least 12 times, and base personnel in Syria have been attacked four times, and a total of 21 US personnel have been injured.
It can be seen that the US has begun to retaliate, but at the same time, it has also highlighted Biden's entanglement and ambivalence, and the US is trying to violently crack down on Iranian-backed militant groups, but it does not want to escalate the situation into a broader conflict.
So the question is, if Iran and the U.S. military really get involved, will Iran be able to defeat the U.S. military?
In fact, although the US military is strong, Iran should not be underestimated, not only does the country have its own defense industry, but also Iran's militia organization is very sound. It is said that it can mobilize 11 million people in wartime, and its national defense reserve force will also shock the US military.
Iran has two armies, the regular Iranian army and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
The regular army has a strength of about 500,000 people, with strong military force and well-equipped, such as the F14 fighter jet and F5 fighter jet imported from the United States in those years. As well as MiG-29 fighters, Su-24 fighters imported from the former Soviet Union, etc.
In addition, Iran has imported anti-ship missiles, main battle tanks, armored vehicles, self-propelled artillery, rocket artillery, and anti-tank missiles from the mainland.
Iran's militia is also extremely strong, and due to the influence of local religious ideas, the Iranian militia often launches fierce suicidal counterattacks.
Therefore, it is estimated that if there is a real war, the US military will also have to weigh Iran, a powerful opponent.