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This page is to track Iran and more specifically President Ahmadinejad, who is currently making the way clear for the 12th Mahdi, who could possibly fulfill the role of false prophet of Biblical end-times fame. (my take as of now) He has also declared the desire to see Israel "wiped off the map" and other such statements. Persia is one of the attackers in the Gog/Magog invasion attempt on Israel in the last days. While I don't know for sure how it will all play out, the relevant news about this subject will be posted here so that it's all in one place for reference.
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- Journalist: Brace for guerilla warfare in Golan (December 31, 2006) - Israel's poor performance against Hizbullah last summer boosted support for President Bashar Assad 's popularity among the Syrian people who are ready for confrontation with Israel, a senior Syrian journalist told Ynet. "There is no doubt that the Lebanon war and the Israeli defeat are a source of encouragement, and also a source for recruiting the Syrian people who see itself as a pioneer and example to other Arab people. It is looking at how the Lebanese defeated and expelled the Israelis from their land while its land remains occupied. "The Syrian people understood the possibility that a war will break out, even at the price Damascus and Syrian cities being bombarded," a senior Syrian journalist told Ynet. His words reflect the Syrian regime's mood as Israel continues to shun Syrian peace overtures. Assad has been signaling willingness to talk peace with the Jewish state, but on the other hand, the journalist says, "The principle is that so long we haven't freed our land in a peaceful path, we are entitled to do so militarily. The Syrian people in the occupied Golan Heights have the right to return to their homeland." He said that Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's ruling out of talks with Syria is a sign that, "Israelis are not serious about talks with Syria … one time they demand that Syria sever its ties with Israel, another time to sever ties with Hizbullah – and another time with Hamas. All this show that the Israelis look for excuses in order not to deal with the real issue – fully withdrawing from the Golan Heights." more... | Iran | Gog/Magog | Israel | Islam |
- Iran: Mahdi will defeat archenemy in Jerusalem (December 31, 2006) - A triumphal religious prophecy has appeared on an Iranian official state media website, heralding the return of the Shiite messiah. According to the website, "Imam Mahdi (may God hasten his reappearance) will appear all of a sudden on the world scene with a voice from the skies announcing his reappearance at the holy Ka'ba in Mecca." The Islamic Republic of Iran broadcasting (IRIB) website said in a program called 'The World Towards Illumination,' that the Mahdi will reappear in Mecca and form an army to defeat Islam's enemies in a series of apocalyptic battles, in which the Mahdi will overcome his archvillain in Jerusalem. The series has been regularly updated throughout November and December. "The Mahdi's far sightedness and firmness in the face of mischievous elements will strike awe. After his uprising from Mecca all of Arabia will be submit to him and then other parts of the world as he marches upon Iraq and established his seat of global government in the city of Kufa. “Then the Imam will send 10 thousand of his forces to the east and west to uproot the oppressors. At this time God will facilitate things for him and lands will come under his control one after the other," the website declared. "After his appearance the Imam would remain in Mecca for some time, and then go to Medina... a descendant of the Prophet's archenemy Abu Sofyan will seize Syria and attack Iraq and the Hejaz with the ferocity of a beast… finally Imam Mahdi sends troops who kill the Sofyani in Beit ol-Moqaddas (Jerusalem), the Islamic holy city in Palestine that is currently under occupation of the Zionists," the IRIB added. more... | Iran | Israel | Islam |
- Iran's oil revenue running dry, Iran's economic woes could make the country unstable (December 25, 2006) - Iran is suffering a staggering decline in revenue from its oil exports, and if the trend continues income could virtually disappear by 2015, according to an analysis published this week in a journal of the National Academy of Sciences. Iran's economic woes could make the country unstable and vulnerable, with its oil industry crippled, Roger Stern, an economic geographer at Johns Hopkins University, said in the report and in an interview. Iran earns about $50-billion (U.S.) a year in oil exports. The decline is estimated at 10 to 12 per cent annually. In less than five years exports could be halved and then disappear by 2015, Mr. Stern predicted. For two decades, far longer than its designation by U.S. President George W. Bush in January 2002 as part of the “axis of evil,” the United States has deployed military forces in the region in a strategy to pre-empt emergence of a regional superpower. Iraq was stopped in the 1991 Persian Gulf War, but a hostile Iran remains a target of U.S. threats. The U.S. military exercises have not stopped Iran's drive. But the report said the country could be destabilized by declining oil exports, hostility to foreign investment to develop new oil resources and poor state planning, Mr. Stern said. Mr. Stern's analysis, which appears in this week's edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, supports U.S. and European suspicions that Iran is trying to develop nuclear weapons in violation of international understandings. But, Mr. Stern says, there could be merit to Iran's assertion that it needs nuclear power for civilian purposes “as badly as it claims.” He said oil production is declining and both gas and oil are being sold domestically at highly subsidized rates. At the same time, Iran is neglecting to reinvest in its oil production. “With an explosive demand at home and poor management, the appeal of nuclear power, financed by Russia, could fill a real need for production of more electricity.” more... | Iran | Gog/Magog | Israel | Islam | Given Ahmadinejad's belief that the end of times and Muslim domination of the world is at hand, is he thinking about the future of their country as a distinct nation and trying to preserve it, or is he utilizing all his resources now to advance the cause of Islam across the world and wipe out Israel? You be the judge, but an unstable Islamic nation bent on world domination while pursuing nuclear technology and chanting "death to Israel" and "death to the USA" while promising to "wipe Israel off the map" catches my attention. Especially in light of Bible prophecy which states that Persia will be part of the coalition that attempts to destroy Israel. God will stop them for now though. It will be interesting to see it come together. Keep watching!
- Syrian guerrillas 'to launch resistance within months' (December 11, 2006) - Baath official tells WND new militant organization ready to attack if Israel doesn't vacate strategic land. If Israel does not vacate the Golan Heights within months, a guerrilla organization allegedly formed in Syria will soon launch "resistance operations" against Israeli positions and Jewish communities in the Golan, an official from Syrian President Bashar Assad's Baath party told WND in an exclusive interview. "If in the coming months an agreement is not forged between Israel and Syria [for an Israeli withdrawal from the Golan], the Committees will begin attacks," said the official, who spoke on condition his name be withheld during an in-person interview with WND and with the G. Gordon Liddy national radio show. The official was referring to the Committees for the Liberation of the Golan Heights, a Hezbollah-like guerrilla organization Baath party sources claim was formed in Syria to attack Israeli positions in the Golan. The Baath official told WND Syria learned from Hezbollah's military campaign against Israel that "fighting" is more effective than peace negotiations with regard to gaining territory. Hezbollah claims its goal is to liberate the Shebaa Farms, a small, 12-square-mile bloc situated between Syria, Lebanon and Israel. The cease-fire resolution accepted by Israel to end its military campaign in Lebanon this past summer calls for negotiations leading to Israel's relinquishing of the Shebaa Farms. The Baath official told WND Syria's new Committees for the Liberation of the Golan Heights was formed this past June and that the group consists of Syrian volunteers, many from the Syrian border with Turkey and from Palestinian refugee camps near Damascus. He said Syria held registration for volunteers to join the Committees in June. The official said attacks by the Committees may include the infiltration of Jewish communities in the Golan, rocket attacks against Israeli positions or raids of Golan-based Israeli military installations. He said all attacks would be launched from the Syrian side of the border. The Golan Heights is strategic mountainous territory captured by the Jewish state after Syria used the terrain to attack Israel in 1967 and again in 1973. The Heights looks down on major Syrian and Israeli population centers, but there are a few areas where the Israeli and Syrian sides are level. Military officials here long have maintained returning the Golan Heights to Syria would grant Damascus the ability to mount an effective ground invasion of the Jewish state. The Heights has a population of about 35,000 – approximately 18,000 Jewish residents and 17,000 Arabs, mostly Druze. The Arab residents retain their Syrian citizenship, but under Israeli law they can also sue for Israeli citizenship. About a dozen officials from Assad's Baath party live and operate in the Golan. WND first reported in June on the alleged formation of the Front for the Liberation of the Golan. One month later, a man identified as the leader of the Front gave an interview to state-run Iranian television. Israel is taking the information seriously. Amos Yadlin, head of the IDF's intelligence branch, told the Knesset in October that Syria is indeed in the early stages of forming a Hezbollah-like group. more... | Iran | Gog/Magog | Israel | Islam | Would Israel attack Syria preemptively if they believe this will happen or because it begins to happen? If so, we may see Isaiah 17 soon. They've threatened to before.
- Modern day Gog and Magog (December 10, 2006) - Similarities between Ezekiel's prophecies, today's Mideast reality uncanny. Current world events are beginning to increasingly resemble the 2,500 year old bible prophecy made by Ezekiel in chapters 38-39. Ezekiel foresaw the rise of Russia (or Turkey, depending on the interpretation) in a coalition with Iran and other Middle Eastern countries (Sudan, Ethiopia and Libya). The coalition is foretold to attack Israel from the north in a bid to destroy it during the earth's "last days," commonly known as the "war of Gog and Magog." Throughout history it was thought that the prophecy had been put on hold, until perhaps today when it seems frighteningly more feasible. In Joel C. Rosenberg's book "The Ezekiel Option," the author points to Ezekiel's prophecies in chapters 36-37, which have largely come true. Rosenberg then asks the obvious question: If prophecies such as "the rebirth of the State of Israel, the return of the Jews to the Holy Land after centuries in exile, the re-blossoming of desolate desert land to produce abundant food, fruit and foliage, and the creation of an exceedingly great army" materialized in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, then why shouldn't the next prophecies come true in our lifetime? more... | Iran | Gog/Magog | Israel | Islam | Keep watching!
- Dore Gold: Israel must prepare for different reality (December 7, 2006) - Will Baker-Hamilton report change US view of Israel? Former UN ambassador says 'willingness of report's author to talk to Iran, Syria is a very alarming development'. Maj. Gen. (res.) Uzi Dayan: Israel shouldn't worry about report but rather lack of leadership and vision. The Baker-Hamilton report handed over to US President George W. Bush on Wednesday is being considered with the utmost severity in America. The majority of the report deals with Iraq, but a significant portion addresses the Israel-Arab conflict, which the report sees as the heart of the Mideast unrest. So how will the report affect Israel? Former UN Ambassador Dore Gold says, "Israel will have to prepare for completely different reality." Maj. Gen. (res.) Uzi Dayan states that "the report shouldn't worry Israel. What should worry Israel is a lack of leadership and vision." "The Baker-Hamilton report is indicative of a growing trend in both American parties," said Gold. "This approach sides with a US withdrawal from Iraq . Within two years American presence in Iraq will be minimal. "Another thing, and this is more important, the very willingness of the reports' author to start a dialogue both Iran and with Syria , is an alarming development. It's alarming because the United States isn't requiring any preliminary conditions for this dialogue, and there is no mention of the Iranian nuclear program which continues to advance. "The recommendation in this report, to talk to Syria and Iran despite the fact that they're responsible for the growing instability in Iraq, will only encourage them to continue employing their policies." Gold says that "the report proves that Israel has been unsuccessful in conveying a clear message to the US elite regarding the Iranian threat. How can the United Stated see Iran as a stabilizing force in Iraq when Iran is funding and supplying arms to terror factions, both in Iraq and in Lebanon." Gold said that things will change both in short and long terms. more... | Iran | Israel | Islam | America |
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Terrorists rejoicing over new Iraq 'plan' (December 6, 2006) - Reaction to Study Group: 'Allah and his angels' responsible, 'era of Islam and of jihad' declared A high level U.S. commission's recommendations for an eventual withdrawal from Iraq and for dialogue with Iran and Syria proves "Islamic resistance" works and America will ultimately be defeated, according to senior terrorist leaders interviewed by WND. The militants, from the largest Palestinian terror groups in the Gaza Strip and West Bank, welcomed the policies outlined by the Iraq Study Group, which they claim recognizes Islam is the "new giant of the world." The group is led by former U.S. Secretary of State James Baker. "The report proves that this is the era of Islam and of jihad," said Abu Ayman, a senior leader of Islamic Jihad in the northern West Bank town of Jenin. The Islamic Jihad terror group is responsible for every suicide bombing in Israel during the past two years. "[With the Iraq Study Group report], the Americans came to the conclusion that Islam is the new giant of the world and it would be clever to reduce hostilities with this giant. In the Quran the principle of the rotation is clear and according to this principle the end of the Americans and of all non-believers is getting closer," Abu Ayman said. According to Abu Abdullah, a senior leader of Hamas' so-called military wing, Baker's report is a victory for Islam brought about by "Allah and his angels." "It is not just a simple victory. It is a great one. The big superpower of the world is defeated by a small group of mujahedeen (fighters). Did you see the mujahedeens' clothes and weapons in comparison with the huge individual military arsenal and supply that was carrying every American soldier?" exclaimed Abu Abdullah, who is considered one of the most important operational members of Hamas' Izzedine al-Qassam Martyrs Brigades, Hamas' declared "resistance" department. "It is no doubt that Allah and his angels were fighting with them (insurgents) against the Americans. It is a sign to all those who keep saying that America, Israel and the West in general cannot be defeated on the ground so let us negotiate with them," Abu Abdullah said. Abu Abdullah said following a withdrawal from Iraq, the U.S. will be defeated on its own soil. "America must understand that with anti-American governments in Latin America and with Islam growing and reinforcing, including in the U.S. itself, the next step would be a total defeat on their (American) land, not a relative one like they are facing in Iraq," he said. Abu Nasser, the second-in-command of the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades terror group in the West Bank, called the Iraq Study Group report a "great victory" from which other jihadist organizations can learn. "The Iraqi victory is a great message and lesson to the revolutionary and freedom movements in the world. Just to think that this resistance is led by hundreds of Sunni fighters who defeated hundreds of thousands of Americans, British and thousands of soldiers who belong to the puppet regime in Baghdad. What would be the situation if the Shiites will decide to join the resistance?" commented Abu Nasser. The Al Aqsa leader said his group learned from the "Iraqi resistance" that jihad will ultimately destroy Israel. The Al Aqsa Brigades is the declared "military wing" of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah party. "If Israel will not start negotiating its withdrawal we are ready to launch the new stage of the intifada," Abu Nasser said. Islamic Jihad's Abu Ayman said after the U.S. "defeat" in Iraq is finalized, insurgents there should move to the West Bank and Gaza to help destroy Israel. "We hope that after chasing the occupation from Iraq, these jihad efforts and experiences will be transferred to Palestine, and yes, I mean that we expect these fighters will come to Palestine as part of a big Islamic army." See Ezekiel 38,39. more... | Iran | Gog/Magog | Israel | Islam | America |
- Ahmadinejad: Iranian Nation To Crush Enemies (December 6, 2006) - President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said here Wednesday that the Iranian nation has achieved victory in the field of nuclear energy and will crush its enemies. Ahmadinejad's remarks came as he addressed residents of Tonekabon city on the second day of his visit to the northern province of Mazandaran. "The Iranian nation is nearing the pinnacle of nuclear victory through the efforts and wisdom of its talented youth. It is now recognized as a strong and courageous nation and a model for regional states," he said. He added: "The Iranian nation has walked the path of nuclear technology and is about to reach its end with the grace of God and through resistance. "There remains just one step to be taken before complete victory. We will hold a big, nationwide nuclear celebration by the end of the current Iranian year (March 20, 2007)." Addressing enemies of Islamic Iran, he said: "Enemies of the nation with their ill intentions should know that Iranians will insist on their right to peaceful nuclear energy." He urged all Iranians to do what they can to speed up the country's development and turn it into a model for regional states. more... | Iran | Islam | How does their achieved victory with nuclear energy equate to crushing their enemies? I thought the developing of nuclear energy was to be for peaceful purposes. It seems to me that he's boasting of how it will help crush their enemies.
- Follow God Or Vanish, Ahmadinejad Tells West (December 6, 2006) - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has warned Western leaders to follow the path of God or "vanish from the face of the earth". "These oppressive countries are angry with us ... a nation that on the other side of the globe has risen up and proved the shallowness of their power," Ahmadinejad said in a speech in the northern town of Ramsar, the semi-official news agency Mehr reported Wednesday. "They are angry with our nation. But we tell them 'so be it and die from this anger'. Rest assured that if you do not respond to the divine call, you will die soon and vanish from the face of the earth," he said. The outspoken president also maintained Iran's defiance over its controversial nuclear programme, saying it was on course to fully master nuclear technology. "Thank to God's help, we have gone all the way and are only one step away from the zenith. "We hope to have the big nuclear celebration by the end of the year (March 2007)," Ahmadinejad said, echoing comments he has made on numerous occasions in recent months. A defiant Iran has refused to suspend its uranium enrichment work, a process that the West fears could be extended to make nuclear weapons. Iran however insists its nuclear programme is solely aimed at generating energy. France's Foreign Minister Philippe Douste-Blazy said Wednesday after a Paris meeting on Tehran's nuclear programme that the UN Security Council is agreed "there will be sanctions" on Iran, though their extent is yet to be decided.| Iran | Gog/Magog | Israel | Islam | It sure sounds like he knows something we don't, eh? I wonder what he sees Iran's "zenith" as being? Could it be an attack on Israel?
- Iran Urges Arab Countries To Eject US Military (December 5, 2006) - Iran's top national security official urged his Arab neighbors Tuesday to eject the US Military from American bases in the region and instead join Tehran in a regional security alliance. Ali Larijani told Arab leaders attending a conference here that Washington is indifferent to their interests and will cast them aside as soon as they are no longer useful. | Iran | Islam |
- Iraqi Christians plead for help from White House (December 5, 2006) - Faced with growing repression by Muslims, Christians from an ancient tradition in Iraq are calling on American political leaders for help before their entire community is extinguished. Christian Assyrians and some of their supporters demonstrated in front of the White House yesterday, highlighting an alarming trend reported by the U.N.: While representing just 5 percent of the Iraqi population, 40 percent of the refugees fleeing the country are Assyrians. One of the speakers at the rally, Nina Shea of Freedom House's Center for Religious Freedom in D.C., told WND that because of the "ethnic cleansing," the Christians want an autonomous district in Iraq they can administrate. The zone, called the Nineveh Plains Administrative Unit, would allow Assyrians and other Christians to practice their faith, speak and teach their language, and work their land without fear of persecution. Unlike the Sunnis and Shiites, the Christians have no militia and are completely defenseless, Shea said. "They need to administrate their own governmental unit to protect themselves," she said. "Otherwise, with the chaos and violence and persecution targeting Christians for religious reasons, which the U.N. has documented, they will disappear. Shea insisted it's in the interest of the U.S. to take a stand. With the loss of the highly educated and skilled Christians, she argued, Iraq is "experiencing a brain drain as well as sane drain – a force of moderation and a bridge to the West." | Iran | Islam | America | Coming soon to a town near you, Christian killers. I don't think it's as far away as most think. Imagine this kind of situation in your neighborhood. What would you do? I hope you would get as close to Christ as you can and remember you are an eternal being, saved by the blood of Christ. Have no fear, but be ready to face these things. Each situation is different, and while I believe the church will be gone before this kind of persecution comes to America, in this volatile world, you never can tell. Keep watching!
- Turkey Seeks To Boost Iran Ties (December 4, 2006) - Turkey and Iran have agreed to further strengthen trade and diplomatic ties following a one day visit to Tehran by Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan Sunday. Erdogan was in Tehran to hold talks with Iranian leaders over regional issues, bilateral relations and Iran’s controversial nuclear energy program. Speaking at a press conference prior to returning to Turkey late Sunday, the Turkish Prime Minister said that Ankara considered its ties with Tehran to be of great importance and was pleased that the relationship was improving. Turning to international affairs, Erdogan said that both Turkey and Iran attached great importance to territorial integrity of Iraq. “I saw that Turkish and Iranian authorities have similar view on this matter. The situation in Iraq affects whole region. We focused on how we can stop the clash of sects there,” he said. Regarding Lebanon, Erdogan said that it was time for unity and solidarity in that country and that Turkey, Iran and Syria should work together to help resolve the problems there. Iran’s First Vice President Parviz Davudi said that Turkey and Iran were two important countries of the Islamic world and that they should work to boost bilateral relations. Not only the region but also whole international community would benefit from a return to stability in Iraq, he said. Erdogan also said that the two countries were working to boost their bilateral trade to $10 billion, though there was a need for greater balance as Iranian exports of natural gas account for much of this volume. | Iran | Gog/Magog | Islam | I think the Muslims will start to unite together against a common enemy very soon and I think we know who that enemy is, Israel. Notice that Gog/Magog includes Russia, Turkey, and Iran. Should this news come as a surprise? Not with our Bible's open!
- Syria smuggling missiles to Hizbullah (December 4, 2006) - Long-range missiles, as well as truckloads of advanced anti-tank missiles originating in Iran and Syria, have been smuggled to Hizbullah in Lebanon during the past four months since the war ended this summer, The Jerusalem Post has learned. The IDF destroyed most of Hizbullah's long-range missile array during the month-long war, including the Iranian-made Fajr and Zelzal. But according to new intelligence obtained by the defense establishment, in the four months since the war, Hizbullah has received weapon convoys carrying short-range missiles, anti-tank missiles and long-range missiles. Most of the weapon convoys crossed into Lebanon from Syria at night. With the increasing possibility that Hizbullah protests, launched in Beirut on Friday, would topple the US-backed government of Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Saniora, the Israeli defense establishment had decided not to take any chances and on Sunday raised the level of alert in the North. Israel is concerned that the Lebanese instability will ignite the situation along Israel's northern border. Hizbullah, Military Intelligence believes, might use the Lebanese political instability as an excuse to launch attacks against Israel - not necessarily by renewing Katyusha rocket attacks like the ones used during the 34-day war this past summer, in which 4,000 rockets were fired at Israel, but by firing anti-aircraft missiles at Israeli aircraft flying over Lebanon to collect intelligence. more... | Iran | Gog/Magog | Islam |
- Mullah: Iran-Turkey-Syria cooperation helps preserve Iraq (December 4, 2006) - Mullah Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani told the visiting Turkish PremierTayyip Erdogan cooperation among regional states notably Iran, Turkey and Syria is among major factors in safeguarding Iraq's territorial integrity and removing insecurity. Mullah said that due to common interests, offering plans by these countries on Iraq and holding joint commissions could be effective in this respect. The Expediency Council chairman remarked in the meeting that finding a solution to Iraqi problem needs an Islamic-International initiative for which the Organization of the Islamic Conference(OIC) is a suitable body for exchanging consultations and providing a plan for restoring security and tranquility to the war-torn country. He also noted that formation of a joint working group by Iran, Syria and Turkey would positively affect not only developments in Iraq, but also those in Lebanon and Palestine. | Iran | Gog/Magog | Islam | The alliances will come about. We know this because the Bible talks specifically about Iran and Turkey attacking Israel along with Russia (ancient Scythians). As you've heard me say in the last newsletter, I believe Isaiah 17 speaks to why Syria is not included in this attack. According to that chapter, they leave the cities because of the children of Israel. Could the defense agreement between Syria and Iran be the "hooks in the jaws" that bring them all against Israel? Keep watching!
- Ahmadinejad Predicts Collapse of Israel, U.S., U.K. (November 26, 2006) - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad predicted the collapse of Israel, the U.S. and Britain, attacking what he called their "oppressive behavior." "The Zionist regime is on a steep downhill towards collapse and disgrace," Ahmandinejad told supporters at a rally of Basiji militia forces near Tehran today. In a reference to the U.S. and U.K., he said "the collapse and crumbling of your devilish rule has started." The speech was carried live on state television. Iran doesn't recognize Israel, and Ahmadinejad drew international condemnation after saying in October 2005 that Israel should be "wiped off the map." The U.S. and Iran have had no diplomatic ties since 1980 following the seizure of diplomats at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran in 1979. The U.K., which has an embassy in Tehran, is among the three European countries pushing for sanctions against Iran over its nuclear program. The Iranian president also called on neighboring countries to drive out "foreign occupiers," in a reference to U.S.-led forces in Iraq and Afghanistan. "The people of the region are well able to establish regional security," the president said in the speech near the shrine of the Islamic Republic founder Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. "The presence of foreigners is the source of discord and conflict." Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, whose visit to Tehran yesterday was postponed because of the curfew imposed on Baghdad since Nov. 23, will fly to the Iranian capital tomorrow, state television reported separately today. The Iraqi president's trip to Iran is aimed at "expanding bilateral ties in business, trade and transport affairs," the report said. Iraq security will not be the main issue discussed in this meeting, the Iranian Foreign Ministry's press office said on Nov. 21. | Iran | Israel | Islam | America | He sure is being cocky, like he knows something we don't. He's expecting the 12th Mahdi and the end of the world. The world sees room for negotiations. Perhaps the world should understand more of the destiny surrounding the 12th Mahdi.
- Russian rocket deliveries to Iran started (November 24, 2006) - Russia has begun deliveries of the Tor-M1 air defence rocket system to Iran, Russian news agencies quoted military industry sources as saying, in the latest sign of a Russian-US rift over Iran. "Deliveries of the Tor-M1 have begun. The first systems have already been delivered to Tehran," ITAR-TASS quoted an unnamed, high-ranking source as saying Friday. The United States has pressed Russia to halt military sales to Iran, which Washington accuses of harbouring secret plans to build a nuclear weapon. Moscow has consistently defended its weapons trade with Iran. Russian Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov said the contract for 29 rocket systems, signed in December last year, was legitimate because the Tor-M1 has a purely defensive role. ITAR-TASS reported that the rockets were to be deployed around Iran's nuclear sites, including the still incomplete, Russian-built atomic power station at Bushehr. In August, Washington announced sanctions against several companies, including Russian arms exporter Rosoboronexport, for supplying technology to Iran that could allegedly be used to develop missile technology and weapons of mass destruction. Under the sanctions no US company can deal with foreign companies on the sanctions list for two years. A spokesman for Rosoboronexport contacted by AFP would not confirm or deny the reports about the Tor-M1 delivery, which were also issued by the Interfax news agency. The Tor-M1 is a low to medium-altitude missile fired from a tracked vehicle against airplanes, helicopters and other airborne targets. more... | Iran | Gog/Magog | Makes you wonder what other military weaponry Russia has sold to Iran...
- Bush warns Syria, Iran after Lebanon killing (November 21, 2006) - US President George W. Bush accused Syria and Iran of fomenting violence and instability in Lebanon, as he condemned the assassination of Lebanese cabinet minister Pierre Gemayel. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice meanwhile made a hasty telephone call to Lebanon's Prime Minister Fuad Siniora, amid signs of US concern over the fate of the Beirut government which emerged from Lebanon's 'cedar revolution.' "Today we saw again the vicious face of those who hate freedom," Bush told American troops in Hawaii during a trip home from Asia. "We strongly condemn the assassination today in Lebanon of Pierre Gemayel." Bush did not apportion direct blame but called for an investigation into "those people and those forces" behind the killing of the anti-Syrian Christian leader. "We support the Siniora government and its democracy and we support the Lebanese people's desire to live in peace and we support their efforts to defend their democracy against attempts by Syria, Iran and allies to foment instability and violence in that important country," said Bush. The killing came against a backdrop of global calls, so far resisted by the United States, for a dialogue with Syria and Iran over chaos in Iraq. But Bush's tone, further bolstered in a written statement on the killing, appeared to cast further doubt on already slim chances of such a diplomatic opening. "Syria's refusal to cease and desist from its continuing efforts to destabilize Lebanon's democratically elected government" was a violation of UN Security Council resolutions, Bush said. "We also demand that Syria treat Lebanon as a genuinely sovereign neighbor, establishing full diplomatic relations with Lebanon," he said. The president said the assassination made it even more important for the United Nations Security Council to seek justice in the killing of former Lebanese premier Rafiq Hariri last year. more... | Iran | Gog/Magog | Israel | EU/UN | Islam | America |
- Iran Slowly Securing Its Grip Around Israel (November 20, 2006) - A nuclear threat is only one of several Iranian problems facing Israel as the Islamic Republic increases its influence in Gaza and Lebanon. Bush says he would "understand" an Israeli attack on Iran. The Iranian government is sending money to Gaza, gradually extending its influence over the region surrounding Israel. The Islamic Republic has donated $120 million to the Hamas-led Palestinian Authority, according to an announcement last Thursday by PA Foreign Minister Mahmoud al-Zahar. The PA official met in Tehran with Ali Larijani, the head of national security in Iran. Palestinian Authority terrorists in Gaza have become major beneficiaries of Iranian largesse recently, according to the AFP news service. “Iran has handed out, until now, over $120 million and says it will supply more aid. Its support is very important for us,” said the PA foreign minister. PA terrorists have significantly stepped up their Kassam rocket attacks against southern Israeli communities recently. Sderot residents have said the rockets are increasing in accuracy, and now contain more explosives as well as ball bearings to maximize damage upon impact. Meanwhile, international efforts to stop Iran’s nuclear development activities have slowly ground to a halt. Despite threats by the U.N. Security Council to impose sanctions against the Islamic Republic if it did not end its uranium enrichment program by the end of August, the program continues uninterrupted, and no action has been taken against Iran. U.S. President George W. Bush said Sunday night he would "understand" if Israel attacked the Islamic Republic, but that America would not help the Jewish State to do so. more... | Iran | Gog/Magog | Israel | Islam | The world is aligning against Israel and quiet about Iranian influence and Muslim terrorism. It's clear that Iran is funding terrorism, but they defiantly continue because nobody can afford to stand against them right now. At least that's how it would seem. We will see their defiance crescendo in the near future when they attack the nation of Israel along with Turkey, Russia, and other Muslim nations. Read Ezekiel 38,39. It will be God who puts a stop to their attack, and I think that will play right into the antichrist's hand, playing the great bringer of peace on the world stage. He will fool the majority of the world though.
- Iran calls for summit with Iraq, Syria (November 20, 2006) - Iran has invited the Iraqi and Syrian presidents to Tehran for a weekend summit with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to hash out ways to cooperate in curbing the runaway violence that has taken Iraq to the verge of civil war and threatens to spread through the region, four key lawmakers told The Associated Press on Monday. Iraqi President Jalal Talabani has accepted the invitation and will fly to the Iranian capital Saturday, a close parliamentary associate said. The Iranian diplomatic gambit appeared designed to upstage expected moves from Washington to include Syria and Iran in a wider regional effort to clamp off violence in Iraq, where more civilians have been killed in the first 20 days of November than in any other month since the AP began tallying the figures in April 2005. The Iranian move was also a display of its increasingly muscular role in the Middle East, where it already has established deep influence over Syria and Lebanon. "All three countries intend to hold a three-way summit among Iraq, Iran and Syria to discuss the security situation and the repercussions for stability of the region," said Ali al-Adeeb, a lawmaker of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's Dawa Party and a close aide to the prime minister. more... | Iran | Islam | I wonder if Iraq will suddenly get peaceful once the heads get together. If original Babylon is a part of end-time prophecy, we could expect to see that area have a big turn-around soon. Perhaps that will be part of the false peace, once all the Muslim nations are united in their hatred for Israel. The hatred is too deeply bred to just go away, so don't expect any upcoming peace to be real.
- Annan urges Syria and Iran to help Lebanon (November 19, 2006) - UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan pressed Syria and Iran yesterday to help promote the stability of Lebanon after the resignation of six of its government ministers. Annan spoke by telephone with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Syrian head of state Bashar Al Assad about developments in Lebanon and the need for governments in the region and around the world "to promote the stability and the unity of Lebanon", UN chief spokesman Stephane Dujarric said. Annan urged the two presidents to counsel Lebanon's leaders "to exercise patience and resolve their differences through dialogue", Dujarric said. Five ministers from Shiite groups Hezbollah and Amal quit the Lebanese Cabinet a week ago when talks over giving the opposition a greater say in government collapsed. A sixth minister, loyal to pro-Syrian President Emile Lahoud, resigned on Monday. Meanwhile, Lahoud said the country would have a "national government" no matter what the cost. He said the situation was "delicate because what is happening violates the Taif agreement and the constitution". The Taif agreement ended Lebanon's 1975-1990 civil war. "I promise you that Lebanon will witness the establishment of a national government no matter what the cost and if that does not happen the price will be high, especially for future generations," Lahoud said in a statement.| Iran | Israel | Islam | We see in Ezekiel 38,39 that Persia (Iran) is one of the attackers. Their increased involvement in Lebanon to the North of Israel, where Muslim Russian and Turkish "peacekeeping troops" are being positioned, falls right in line with Bible prophecy in this regard. Also, Isaiah 17 says Damascus will be a ruinous heap. In verse 9, it talks about the strong cities being forsaken, left because of the children of Israel. Israel has been discussing pre-emptive attacks against Damascus, Syria because it houses so many terrorist leaders and is responsible for much of the weapons smuggling going on. Israel has good reasons to attack Damascus, mainly all the threats coming from Damascus about Israel's demise: Oct. 11, Sept. 21, July 12, and Israel's warning and threat to hit Damascus specifically on July 1. It's all in Bible prophecy about the end times and it's being reported in the news today. Keep watching!
- Iranian Paper: Great War to Wipe Out Israel Coming (November 15, 2006) - Iranian newspapers Kehyan and and Resalat have urged Muslims around the world to prepare for a 'great war' to destroy the State of Israel. The newspapers published the editorials, translated from Persian by MEMRI , the Middle East translation service, to mark 'Quds' day on October 20, an Iranian 'holiday' calling for the "liberation" of Jerusalem and war against Israel. "Hizbullah destroyed at least half of Israel in the Lebanon war... Now only half the path (to its destruction) remains," an editorial in the conservative Keyhan newspaper declared. Messianic nukes? Awaiting the Iranian messiah / Yaakov Lappin A glimpse into the apocalyptic ideology gripping the Iranian government "It was proven that, by means of an offensive operation that need not be equal to Israel's moves, it is possible to neutralize the Zionist navy," the article said triumphantly. It continued: "Just as in one 33-day war more than 50 percent of Israel was destroyed, and the hope of its supporters for the continued life of this regime was broken, it is likely that in the next battle, the second half will also collapse." "On that day... Jordan will not be able to prevent the Jordanian Islamists from operating through the long Jordan-Palestine border, and the millions of Egyptian Islamists... will not let the Sinai-Israel border remain quiet, and the Syrian Golan Heights will not remain as a (mere) observer of the battle. That day is not so far off." The Resalat newspaper struck a similarly bellicose tone with an editorial entitled "Preparations for the Great War." "The great war is ahead of us, (and will break out) perhaps tomorrow, or in another few days, or in a few months, or even in a few Years... Israel must collapse," the newspaper said. It added: "For the first time in the 60 years of its disgraceful life, the Zionist regime - the West's beloved in the Middle East - tasted the taste of defeat, and the citizens of this regime trembled at the menace of Hizbullah's missiles… The nation of Muslims must prepare for the great war, so as to completely wipe out the Zionist regime, and remove this cancerous growth. Like the Imam (Ayatollah) Khomeini said: 'Israel must collapse.'" | Iran | Gog/Magog | Israel | Islam |
- Ahmadinejad: Israel’s destruction near (November 13, 2006) - According to the Iranian media Monday, Iranian President Mahoud Ahmadinejad declared that Israel was destined to ‘disappearance and destruction’ at a council meeting with Iranian ministers. “The western powers created the Zionist regime in order to expand their control of the area. This regime massacres Palestinians everyday, but since this regime is against nature, we will soon witness its disappearance and destruction,” Ahmadinejad said. | Iran | Gog/Magog | Israel | Islam |
- 'Israel Must Prepare For Full-Scale War' (November 13, 2006) - Israel has to prepare for a full-scale war, in which Syria will be an important player, an Israeli military official told the British Sunday Times. "The challenge from Iran and Syria is now top of the Israeli defense agenda, higher than the Palestinian one," another official said. The recent war with Hizbullah and the threat that Iran could achieve nuclear weapons capability have led Israel to reexamine its defense strategies, and focus on the region's two major supporters of terrorism, IDF sources have said recently. One conclusion is that Israel has allocated too much time and energy to addressing the terror threat posed by Palestinian groups in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. According to London's International Institute for Strategic Studies, both Iran and Syria have ballistic missiles whose range extends over most of Israel, including Tel Aviv. Funds have reportedly been approved for the construction of appropriately equipped shelters. Eyeing Syria, the IDF has formed a new infantry brigade, known as Kfir (young lion), as a countermeasure against Syria's commando forces, which are considered "better" than Hizbullah guerrillas, a military source informed the Times. The IDF is also reportedly integrating three elite brigades in preparation for them cooperating on deep cross-border operations into Syria and Iran. more... | Iran | Gog/Magog | Israel | Islam | Hmm... And it just so happens that Israel is looking at having to go to war with Syria and Iran! On top of that, we have Russian-Muslim and Turkish "peacekeeping troops" piling up on the Northern border of Israel in Lebanon. There were also the Iranian Republican Guards that were found dead in Lebanon during the earlier war this year. Given Isaiah 17, Ezekiel 38, and Ezekiel 39 I think this is a pretty big coincidence, eh?!
- Iran in UN protest over Israel 'military threats' (November 12, 2006) - Iran has complained to the United Nations over a "series of threats" after an Israeli official refused to rule out a military strike against the Islamic republic, the IRNA agency reports. Mohammad Javad Zarif, Iran's ambassador to the United Nations, submitted the complaint to Secretary General Kofi Annan and the Security Council on Friday following the comments by Israeli Deputy Defence Minister Ephraim Sneh. "The letter, underlining threats from Sneh and other Israeli officials, regards these statements as illegal, ridiculous and a sign of the Zionist regime's criminal policies and terrorist intentions," the state agency said. Sneh had told the Jerusalem Post on Friday he considered military action against Iran as a "last resort. But even the last resort is sometimes the only resort." His comments were seen as the clearest statement yet by an Israeli official that military strikes against Iran over its refusal to halt sensitive nuclear activities were not excluded. more... | Iran | Israel | I can't believe this, ok I can. What a bunch of manipulative whiney babies. Let me remind everyone of the kinds of comments from Ahmadinejad about wiping Israel off the map that may lead Israel to leave war with Iran on the table of possibilities. I'll bet this whining is looked at with sincerity in the UN though. As sick as this kind of stuff makes me, it fits with Bible prophecy yet again. The whole world is uniting against Israel calling good bad and bad good. Another clue of Satanic influence is how he is always 180 degrees out of phase with the Truth. Like Hitler knew well though, if you say it loud enough and long enough, people will believe you. I hope this newsletter is presenting the Truth being declared in that same fashion and encourage you to share it with anyone you know that might be interested in watching too.
- Awaiting the Iranian Messiah (November 12, 2006) - He challenges the largest superpower on earth, threatens a regional superpower with annihilation, and mocks international efforts to keep tabs on his nuclear program. Where does the unswerving confidence of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad come from? To whom did Ahmadinejad refer when he told the United Nations in September: “I emphatically declare that today's world, more than ever before, longs for…the perfect righteous human being and real savior who has been promised to all peoples and who will establish justice, peace, and brotherhood on the planet. Almighty god [Allah]…make us among his followers and among those who strive for his return and his cause?” According to Shiite Islam, the 12th Imam, named Mahdi, is the awaited messiah who will establish the rule of Islam around the world–following a massive war during which Islam's enemies are expected to be decimated. Iran's official state Web sites are filled with information about the Islamic republic's messiah. “Imam Mahdi was unseen from the eyes of common people, and nobody could see him except [a] special group of Shiites...After the martyrdom of his father, he was appointed as the next imam. Then he was hidden by god's [Allah’s] command, and he was just observable by the special deputies of his own,” the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting Web site declares. The Web site also contains a special hadith (traditional) prayer, to be recited on the birthday of the Mahdi: “Today is Friday, a day you are expected to come; the faithful will be free of cares and troubles when you shall arrive and, with one strike, shall put an end to the intrigues of the infidels.” Speaking to Ynetnews, Professor Raymond Tanter, one of the authors of the forthcoming book, “What Makes Iran Tick”–which explores the Shiite Islamist ideology of Iran–said there was no questioning the belief of Iran's leaders in the coming of the Mahdi. Tanter, President of the Iran Policy Committee–a Washington-based organization comprised of former officials from the White House, State Department, Pentagon, and intelligence services–said: “The Iranian leadership, particularly Ahmadinejad, welcome the apocalyptic vision of the return of the hidden Imam. And all the strains of Islam believe in the eventual return of the Mahdi, also known as the 12th Imam, or the Shiite messiah. After a period of great destruction, once the forces of evil are defeated, the so-called 12th Imam is supposed to reign over a period of great prosperity. “When Ahmadinejad was mayor of Tehran, he set up an urban renewal program that would make it easier to facilitate the Mahdi's return. He created passageways and roadways that would allow the Mahdi to return triumphantly. He operationalized this concept. The Iranian president did not view himself as the Shiite messiah though. more... | Iran | Islam | Ezekiel 38,39 - Gog/Magog is my best guess right now. Given the news we've been seeing, all the players are set up, even so far as troops building up on the Northern border of Israel, and all the world is actually requesting it, including Israel! Ahmadinejad defiantly declares the soon destruction of the state of Israel publicly and everything seems pretty set up for it. I think the 12th Mahdi will end up being the false prophet who will bring Islam to bow before the beast. He's expected to come out of a well which reminds me of Revelation 13 calling him the beast that comes from the earth. It's looking more and more like the Pope will be bringing much of the Catholic church to eventually worship the beast from the sea along with Islam and all other religions in an all-inclusive new world religion that will have one man at it's head. It seems to fit, but each is their own judge. Keep watching!
- Iran Vows To Hit Back If Israel Attacks (November 11, 2006) - Iran's armed forces on Saturday vowed to hit back against any military strike after a top Israeli official refused to rule out attacking the Islamic republic over its disputed nuclear program. "The armed forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran will firmly respond to any military and threatening move," Brigadier General Ali Fazli, spokesman for Iran's latest round of 10-day war games, said. "The Iranian armed forces, which realize the different threats, have the capacity and capability to confront them," he added. Israeli Deputy Defense Minister Ephraim Sneh had told the Jerusalem Post on Friday he considered military action against Iran as a "last resort. But even the last resort is sometimes the only resort." His comments were seen as the clearest statement yet by an Israeli official that military strikes against Iran over its refusal to halt sensitive nuclear activities were not excluded. "The enemies of the Islamic republic are too weak and too abject to be a threat for a powerful Iran," added Fazli, who did not specify what the nature of Iran's response would be. Iran has been showing off its military prowess in recent days in the 10-day "Great Prophet II" war games, which have seen its fire its Shahab-3 longer range missile for the first time in maneuvers and test-fire new weaponry. more... | Iran | Gog/Magog | Israel | Islam |
- Eye of the Storm: The 'Iranization' of Syria (November 3, 2006) - While there is much talk of continued Syrian machinations in Lebanon, little attention is paid to an Iranian plan to remodel Syria into a Khomeinist state. The Teheran-Damascus axis that challenges the United States in the Middle East was first formed in 1980 when Saddam Hussein invaded Iran in the hope of destroying the newly created Islamic Republic. At first, the Khomeinist regime in Iran and the Ba'athist dictatorship in Syria seemed unlikely allies. The Khomeinists followed a radical Shi'ite ideology aimed at global jihad in the name of their brand of Islam. The Syrian Ba'athists, on the other hand, were secularists inspired by an Arabized version of National Socialism aimed at uniting Arab countries under one flag and one party. The Iran-Iraq war brought the two together for a simple reason: the Syrians knew that if Saddam won he would become the unrivaled Arab supremo, marginalizing the Syrian Ba'ath and eventually toppling the regime of President Hafez Assad. The mullahs knew that only Syria could prevent a unified Arab bloc to back Saddam. The mullahs had to pay for Syrian support in the form of cut-price oil and an annual cash handout of $150 million. In 1982 the two furthered their alliance by sponsoring the Lebanese branch of Hizbullah. All along, however, the Syrians were careful not to be totally hooked to the Iranian strategy. Hafez Assad insisted on meeting every American president and maintained close contact with Washington. He was also ruthless when it came to Islamist tendencies, even if that meant massacring thousands of people. Even in Lebanon, Assad did not put all his eggs in the Iranian basket and insisted on having his own Shi'ite outlet in the form of Nabih Berri's Amal movement. more... | Iran | Gog/Magog | Islam |
- Russia, China won't back Iran sanctions (November 2, 2006) - Russian and China indicated that they will not support a draft U.N. resolution imposing tough sanctions on Iran for its refusal to halt its nuclear enrichment program. The comments by Russia's foreign minister and China's U.N. ambassador were the strongest reactions yet to the draft by the two key U.N. Security Council members, and signaled difficult negotiations ahead on the resolution drawn up by Britain, France and Germany. "We cannot support measures that in essence are aimed at isolating Iran from the outside world, including isolating people who are called upon to conduct negotiations on the nuclear program," the Interfax news agency quoted Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov as saying Wednesday. China's U.N. Ambassador Wang Guangya said "there are still different views on what kind of actions the council needs to do under the current circumstances." Wang said "the major concern" is that some members want tough sanctions like those in the resolution that the council approved on Oct. 14 to punish North Korea for conducting a nuclear test. more... | Iran |
- Russia says believes Iran's nuke program peaceful (October 31, 2006) - Russia said on Tuesday it believed Iran's nuclear program was peaceful, and a political dialogue, not sanctions, must be used in talks with Tehran. "We do not have information that would suggest that Iran is carrying out a non-peaceful (nuclear) program," Russian Security Council Secretary Igor Ivanov told a news conference in Moscow. "We believe that the possibilities for continuing political discussion around this problem (Iran's nuclear program) have not been exhausted," he said. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in a telephone conversation on Monday that talks over Iran's nuclear dispute were being hindered because the European side did not have enough authority. "The most important problem in continuing Iran and Europe's negotiations (over the nuclear issue) is the European side's lack of enough authority (to take decisions)," an Iranian television report quoted Ahmadinejad as telling Putin. In a statement on Monday, the Kremlin said Putin had told the Iranian leader that Moscow favored further talks. Iran says negotiations are the only way to resolve the dispute. But Iran's failure to meet a U.N. deadline to halt enrichment has opened up the possibility of U.N. sanctions. European states have prepared a draft sanctions resolution but Russia has voiced misgivings. "Sanctions should not be adopted for their own sake," Ivanov said. European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana held months of talks with Iran's chief nuclear negotiator, Ali Larijani. But those talks did not reach a deal and Solana said this month it was up to Iran to decide if talks should continue. more... | Iran | Islam | EU/UN | Solana | Next thing you know, this will be used as a reason to pass the EU constitution giving power to Javier Solana so he can make a difference in Iranian negotiations. Like Herb says, Solana is sorely needed as a Foreign Minister by the European Union, they know it and Solana knows it. This could be used for a power play.
- Report: Iran, Syria are Russia's top military clients (October 31, 2006) - Iran and Syria are the leading defense clients of Russia in the Middle East, according to a new report. The Congressional Research Service said Iran and Syria were the biggest Middle East importers of Russian weapons from 2002 through 2005. In a report, CRS said the orders marked Russia's return to the Middle East weapons market, Middle East Newsline reported. "The principal purchasers of Russian arms were: Iran [$1.7 billion], Syria [$800 million],Yemen [$500 million], Libya, and Israel [$300 million each]," the report, entitled "Conventional Arms Transfers to Developing Nations 1998-2005," said. Later, industry sources said the Israeli purchase from Russia comprised the procurement of Il-76 air transports. They said the cargo aircraft were relayed to India as part of Israel's airborne early-warning and control system project, valued at $1.1 billion. China, a missile and light arms exporter, was also cited as a leading supplier to the Middle East. CRS said that from 2002 through 2005, Egypt was the leading purchaser of Chinese systems, with orders that totaled $400 million. Iran and Saudi Arabia followed with $300 million and $200 million, respectively. "The value of China's arms transfer agreements with Iran rose from essentially nil in 1998-2001 to $300 million in the 2002-2005 period," the report said. The United States was cited as the leading supplier of military platforms and systems to the Middle East in 2002-2005. Egypt was the leading client of the United States, with $5.2 billion, followed by Saudi Arabia and Israel, with $4.2 billion and $2.5 billion, respectively. | Iran | Gog/Magog | Israel | Islam | Is it any wonder Russia is so supportive and protective of these two? They're even all prophesied to attack Israel together! If that isn't a hint at how close we are, what about the fact that Muslim Russian troops along with Turkish troops are being sent to Israel's Northern border right now.
- Israel Must Prepare For Iran to Push the Button - Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Dan Halutz (October 21, 2006) - Iranian president said earlier there is no reason for Israel “the greatest insult to human dignity” to exist and it would soon disappear. Halutz also warned Israel to prepare for possible war with Syria, whose missile threat to Israel's population is similar to that of Hizballah. Another of his outrageous speeches was delivered Friday to a pro-Palestinian rally marking the Islami Republic’s “al Qods Day” (Jerusalem Liberation Day). In further inflammatory remarks, Ahmadinejad said “the world knows the US and Britain are enemies of the Iranian nation.” He warned European nations not to harm Iran, saying that if anger in the region boiled over, Europe would get hurt because of its support for Israel. “Europe must distance itself from Israel at once. That is Iran’s ultimatum. “He went on to brand the UN Security Council and its decisions “illegitimate.” DEBKAfile adds: These words amounted to an Iranian threat of harm to the European UN forces deployed in Lebanon unless they left forthwith. His harsh words followed two events: one, the Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert’s statement in Moscow this week after he met with Russian leaders: “They need to fear that something that they do not want to happen will happen. In no case, Olmert stressed, “will we reconcile with nuclear arms in Iranian hands. There is no margin for error here.” The other event was the arrival in the Persian Gulf of the giant US carrier Iwo Jima with its Expeditionary Strike Group to join the American naval, air and marine might piling up opposite Iran’s shores. Next week too, the Security Council convenes to discussion a form of sanctions against Iran for refusing to desist from enriching uranium. | Iran | Gog/Magog | Israel | Islam |
- Iran Warns of Revenge Over Israel (October 20, 2006) - Iran's president has warned that Muslims around the world will take revenge on states which support Israel against the Palestinians. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad again questioned the extent of the Holocaust, when German Nazis murdered six million Jews. Israel was founded on "claims about the Holocaust" for which the Palestinians were paying the price, he told a rally. He was speaking on Jerusalem Day, when there are large demonstrations in Iran in support of the Palestinians. BBC Tehran correspondent Frances Harrison says the tone of the speech was hard-line, even by Mr Ahmadinejad's standards. Implicit threat Mr. Ahmadinejad called Israel's leaders a "group of terrorists" and appeared to threaten any country that supports it." You imposed a group of terrorists... on the region. It is in your own interest to distance yourself from these criminals... This is an ultimatum. Don't complain tomorrow." The "ultimatum" was directed at European states in particular. "We have advised the Europeans that the Americans are far away, but you are the neighbors of the nations in this region," Mr. Ahmadinejad said. "We inform you that the nations are like an ocean that is welling up, and if a storm begins, the dimensions will not stay limited to Palestine, and you may get hurt." more... | Iran | Gog/Magog | Israel | Islam | America |
- Ahmadinejad Predicts Israel's Collapse, Warns of 'Boiling Wrath' (October 20, 2006) - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has predicted Israel would collapse and warned that its allies face the "boiling wrath" of the people if they continue to support the Jewish state. The renewed assault on Israel by Ahmadinejad -- who has been castigated by world powers for his frequent anti-Israeli outbursts -- came as tens of thousands marched through Tehran in an annual pro-Palestinian protest. "This regime (Israel) will be gone, definitely," Ahmadinejad, who has previously called for Israel to be "wiped from the map" and described the Holocaust as a myth, told the protestors. "You (the Western powers) should know that any government that stands by the Zionist regime from now on will not see any result but the hatred of the people," he added. "The wrath of the region's people is boiling." "Efforts to stabilise this fraudulent regime have completely failed, thank God ... This regime has lost the rationale of its existence," the president said. Ahmadinejad described his warning as an "ultimatum" for Western powers. "You should not complain that we did not give a warning. We are saying this explicitly now." "If a hurricane starts be rest assured that the dimensions of this hurricane will not be limited to the geographic borders of Palestine," he added. "This regime (Israel) will take its supporters to the bottom of the swamp." "The best solution is for you to take all the components of the regime and take it away," Ahmadinejad said. Chanting "Death to Israel" and predicting the "Triumph of Palestine", tens of thousands of people had earlier converged on Tehran University, where Ahmadinejad gave his speech, to mark Iran's Quds (Jerusalem) Day. more... | Iran | Gog/Magog | Israel | Islam | America |
- Ahmadinejad: God told me we would win (October 16, 2006) - Iranian president says has been in touch with God, who reassured him Tehran victory against West is guaranteed. While the West is preparing to impose sanctions on Iran, due to the country's failure to suspend its nuclear activities, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is still optimistic. "We shall win," he was quoted in the Iranian media as saying Monday, and added: "One day I will be asked whether I have been in touch with someone who told me we would win, and I will respond: 'Yes, I have been in touch with God'." "We must not be afraid of them," he stated, hinting to the western countries. Ahmadinejad also noted that although he was at times mocked for his preoccupation with spiritual matters and his use of "divine" words," he was nevertheless certain that Iran would prevail, after having secured the support of international public opinion for its cause. Meanwhile, Iranian news agencies reported Monday that Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps Major General Yahya Rahim Safavi addressed the possibility of an attack on Iran and said, “If Americans and Zionists want to try their luck in Iran, they will experience a larger defeat than in Iraq.” Safavi added during a memorial service held at his headquarters: “We are obligated to our fallen to maintain the readiness and deal a powerful blow on the enemies in case of an attack. “The Basij (branch of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps) and the Revolutionary Guards are so strong they will not allow the enemy to even think of launching an operation against Iran,” he said. “The blood of our shahids will bring about not only the liberation of Jerusalem and Karbala (Iraq) but the liberation of all mankind from the evil powers of the world; the blood of our shahids boiled the blood of Muslims in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Lebanon, and they will overcome the evil Americans and Israel.” more... | Iran | Gog/Magog | Israel | Islam | This shows the fearlessness because I really believe that he believes that. Or at least he's trying to deceive the population into higher morale for a more willing army. However, since hatred of Israel is taught from the mosques and is beyond any territorial division, it's only a matter of time before all of Islam unites together against Israel and those who refuse to convert to Islam. Look at history and watch it repeat.
- IDF: Syrian Army In Battle Positions (October 15, 2006) - Brigadier-General Yossi Beyditz, head the Research Department in the IDF Directorate of Military Intelligence, told Cabinet Sunday that, “(Syrian President Bashar) Assad is preparing his army for a confrontation with Israel.” “Assad has not returned the army to its pre-Lebanon war positions,” Beyditz said. However, he added that the Syrian army is not prepared to attack, but rather to defend the country against a possible Israeli offensive "These are artillery cannons, missiles and rockets positioned in forward positions. He is preparing for a defensive and not offensive response. He estimates that Israel would want to attack him," he said. He added: "Assad continues to support Hamas, Islamic Jihad and Hizbullah. We have unequivocal proof on his direct involvement in smuggling weapons to Lebanon. In the past there was no proof," he said. "The Syrians continue to sabotage attempts to implement UN Resolution 1701 and also to harm (Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad) Siniora's sovereignty and create a majority block against him in the government," he added. "Bashar Assad continues him wave of equivocal messages. Once he speaks about sticking with a peace strategy and simultaneously speak of a confrontation and about us as not ready for a political process and he in fact means both options: a political arrangement according to Assad's known conditions, but prepares that army for a confrontation with Israel," the officer said. more... | Iran | Gog/Magog | Israel | Islam |
- Iran’s supreme ruler Ali Khamenei delivers war sermon, symbolically totes Kalashnikov DEBKAfile (October 14, 2006) - Khamenei speaking at Tehran University on Oct. 13, the third Friday of Ramadan,. He is holding an automatic AK 47 rifle in his right hand in a pose reminiscent of Yasser Arafat and Saddam Hussein at their most belligerent. His sermon was tantamount to a declaration of war by Iran and its Middle East allies: Syria, Hizballah and the Palestinian Hamas against the United States and Israel. The Kalashnikov accentuated his words. | Iran | Islam | Israel | America | They're on the war path and they believe they have Allah on they're side. Of course they do, but the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob will overcome in all things. We need to be aware of the power over the fear of death that religious belief can bring. We should know that ourselves as Christians if we believe it. Muslims believe the things they're taught from infancy and are brainwashed to be willing to kill themselves and others for their god. So when faced with the arguement that negotiations are possible, listen to their two-faced responces to the world then to their own people. It is the religion that controls the people, not the politics in Islam. The politics are something they have to fake until they can fulfill their religious duty, to dominate the world for Allah. Hear Iranian President | Hear Syrian Cleric http://memritv.org/
- Anti-Tank Missiles Smuggled Into Gaza (October 13, 2006) - The IDF released information Friday that indicated the pace of weapons smuggling into the Gaza Strip was increasing. A senior army officer said terror groups were arming at an "unprecedented" pace, Channel 2 reported, and some officials were calling for a re-evaluation of the IDF's strategy in Gaza. Despite intense IDF activityAddMinn along the security fence in recent days and non-stop air strikes on Gaza weapons depots, terror groups have been importing more than two tons of TNT per month through tunnels burrowed under the Philadelphi corridor along the Egyptian border. Aside from the usual merchandise of explosives, light weapons and ammunition, some 20 advanced anti-tank missiles have found their way into Gaza - a development the IDF has feared since the end of the war in Lebanon, officials said. Several anti-tank missiles have been fired at troops and vehicles in the army's latest forays across the security fence. In two separate incidents Friday, Palestinians targeted tanks operating in Khan Yunis, but failed to inflict casualties. more... | Iran | Gog/Magog | Israel | Islam | Just negotiate with them. The missiles mean nothing, it's just self-defense for the ones who keep trying to kill the Jews. In case you missed it, that was extreme sarcasm intended to point out the futility of negotiating with those clearly gearing up for war. At least Israel isn't oblivious even if the rest of the world seems to be since they're still supporting the poor beleaguered "Palestinians." I recommend everyone read the REAL history of the land of Israel and the deceptions that have gone into deceiving the whole world into taking the side against Israel. From Time Immemorial: The Origins of the Arab-Jewish Conflict over Palestine by Joan Peters
- Tehran Arms Hamas for a Double-Barreled War Option and Gaza as Second Lebanon (October 13, 2006) - The military pacts Palestinian Hamas interior minister Said Siyam signed with his Iranian counterpart Mostafa Pour-Mohammadi in Tehran on Oct. 12 are designed to transform Hamas’ military wing, the Ezz e-Din al Qassam, into a crack operational arm of the Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, and Gaza into a second Lebanon. Syam was in Tehran for two days at the head of a 7-man delegation. DEBKAfile’s Iranian sources report Tehran has committed to training Hamas’ rapid deployment force of 6,500 men in Hizballah combat tactics, with the accent on missiles, especially the anti-tank variety which were used with devastating effect against Israeli tanks in the Lebanon War. The force will be sent over in batches for six-week courses at Revolutionary Guards installations in southern Iran. Iran will foot the $60 million bill for the training as well as for the top-notch weaponry. The Hamas military delegation flew from Cairo to Dubai and on to Tehran. Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak and intelligence chief, Gen. Omar Suleiman, were apprised of the Hamas leaders’ trip and the military accords they were to sign, but did nothing to detain the travelers. This was taken by Hamas and the Iranian government as signaling Cairo’s assent to the Hamas-Iranian transaction, a green light for the trips through Egypt of trainee groups to and from Iran and a continuing blind eye to the delivery of Iranian armaments via Egypt to Gaza. more... | Iran | Gog/Magog | Israel | Islam | Nobody's trying to stop them. Israel will have to worry about the condemnation of the world if they do anything. Israel doesn't have many allies in the world. Zechariah 12:1-6 - I believe this verse is talking about the time since June 7, 1967. Israel has consistently held back the Muslim attackers against all odds and everyone that comes against Israel is driven back. There's even a case to be made that hurricanes Dennis, Katrina, Wilma, and Rita were a direct result of US meddling in giving away land for peace. Eye To Eye by Bill Koenig
- The naval exercise to be held by US, Bahrain and allies later this month brings a massive concentration of American naval, air and marine might to the Persian Gulf (October 13, 2006) - US officials said the exercise starting Oct. 31 will practice interdicting ships carrying weapons of mass destruction and missiles. DEBKAfile’s military sources report: US naval, air and marine forces are massing in the Persian Gulf, Gulf of Oman and eastern Mediterranean opposite Lebanon and Syria. The big USS Eisenhower Carrier Strike Group (picture) arrives by Oct. 21. Facing these units are Iranian Revolutionary Guards naval, air and marine units together with the Iranian armed forces on full war preparedness. The forthcoming DEBKA-Net-Weekly discusses this menacing maneuver at length in its coming issue out on Friday. The US announcement came as the US and other powers discussed sanctions on North Korea, including searching its ships following Monday’s nuclear test. It followed shortly after they also agreed on a Security Council session next week to impose sanctions on Iran. The US spokesman said the exercise, in which Bahrain, Kuwait, France, Britain, Canada and others will take part, will demonstrate “our resolve and readiness to act” against nuclear proliferation. South Korea will be an observer. Clearly the Bush administration has more forceful “repercussions” in mind for Iran than diplomacy. Iran will no doubt respond to the demonstrative exercise, the massing of US forces around its shores and the threat of UN sanctions by a counter-stroke that raises tensions in the region and involves Iraq and/or the countries on Israel’s border – Lebanon and Syria. | Iran | Islam | America |
- Iran's target: 3,000 dead Americans by Nov. 7 (October 11, 2006) - Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran's president, has given the order: Raise the American death count in Iraq to 3,000 before the Nov. 7 general election. This news came from a high-level Israeli leader. The death count in the month of September was 65 and stands at 28 thus far for the month of October. The dead and wounded in Iraq to date number 23,212. The total number of dead stands at 2,744 – Iran is 256 body bags away from achieving its goal, which means it will have to accelerate the death count to approximately nine Americans per day in Iraq. American and Iraqi forces are fighting various battles with Iran's Mahdi Army. Muqtada al-Sadr, Iran's personal envoy in Iraq, is receiving funding, intelligence and armaments from Iran. Al-Sadr is to Iraq what Nasrallah is to Lebanon. According to Moshe Ya'alon, former chief of staff of the Israeli Defense Forces (and who also endorsed "Showdown with Nuclear Iran"), 85 percent of all IEDs that kill Americans in Iraq are imported from Iran. Iran has a definite purpose in trying to get the body count in Iraq up to 3,000; they believe that number will do enormous damage to President Bush during the mid-term elections Nov. 7. Iran has expertise in influencing American elections. The 1980 campaign against then-President Jimmy Carter was very successful. The founder of Israeli intelligence, Isser Harel, told me in September of 1980 that Iran would take Jimmy Carter out of the White House by humiliating him and refusing to release the hostages until Ronald Reagan was sworn in as president. He also told me that America's first terrorist attack would be on New York City's tallest building. (This story appeared in the Jerusalem Post Sept. 30, 2001.) Ahmadinejad's desire to influence U.S. elections is just another in a series of events this year that bear his imprimatur: more... | Iran | America |
- Call for Israel to leave Shebaa farms area (October 11, 2006) - Hizbullah will resume its military campaign against Israel unless it withdraws from the disputed Shebaa farms area and other pockets of territory occupied during this summer’s 34-day war, Nabih Berri, speaker of the Lebanese parliament, has warned. “If Israel does not pull out we will have to drive them out,” said Mr Berri, who acted as a link to the militant organisation during this summer’s war with Israel, in an interview with the Guardian. Hizbullah will remain armed and fully operational in south Lebanon, despite the newly-deployed UN forces, until Israel withdraws from all Lebanese territory and ceases its ongoing air, sea and land violations, Mr Berri added. “The Unifil presence will not hinder Hizbullah's defensive operations. The resistance doesn't need to fly its flags high to operate, it's a guerrilla movement; it operates among the people,” he said. more... | Iran | Gog/Magog | Israel | Islam |
- Israel Raises Prospect of War in 2007 (October 10, 2006) - For the first time in more than a decade, Israel's military has raised the prospect of a Middle East war. Military sources said the Intelligence Corps has warned of the possibility of war in 2007. The sources said the corps, in its annual intelligence assessment, has notified the General Staff that Syria represented the greatest danger of war over the next year. "The main message was that the chance of war with Syria in 2007 was greater than during 2006," a source said. "This does not mean that it will happen. It means that there is a reasonable change of it taking place." The annual assessment relayed to the General Staff was expected to be revised over the next few months. The Cabinet would receive the annual assessment toward the end of 2006. | Iran | Gog/Magog | Israel | Islam |
- Ahmadinejad's political mysticism (October 7, 2006) - On June 25, 2005, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was elected president of Iran. He beat former President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani in a run-off election, winning a reported 60 percent of the vote. Ahmadinejad's election was a clear sign the ruling powers in Iran had decided to move in an ultra-conservative direction. The mullahs evidently had rejected the strategy of reform as a way to appease the widespread domestic dissatisfaction sweeping through Iranian society. The ruling clerics feared that a Gorbachev style perestroika would be seen a sign of weakness, a strategy the mullahs believed would backfire on them, just as it had backfired on the Russian communist rulers who were trying at the end of the 1980s to prevent the breakup of the Soviet Union. Today the ultra-conservative mullahs that compose the minority ruling Iran are not prepared to tolerate internal dissent or civil disobedience. Instead, under Ahmadinejad, the regime intends to reinforce a strict Islamic moral code that would end Western-type freedoms such as free speech via the Internet. Even the mildest forms of "indecent behavior," such as young lovers holding hands in public or women who do not properly cover their heads and faces with the traditional hejab when leaving the home, risk severe punishment. In accepting the victory, Ahmadinejad gave a short but significant statement, emphasizing both his devotion to the late Ayatollah Khomeini and to the radical Islamic revolution Khomeini had led. "Iran has high capacities and can promulgate Islamic civilization worldwide," he said, as he vowed to fulfill the ideals of Imam Khomeini as well as meet the demands of the Iranian people. These words were carefully chosen. Ahmadinejad's spiritual and moral roots are deeply embedded in the radical Islamic revolution brought forth upon Iran by Khomeini. His words affirmed his conviction that the Iranian revolution was destined to be a worldwide revolution. more... | Iran | Islam |
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DEBKAfile’s sources: Tehran and Damascus are gearing up for a
pre-emptive Syrian attack on Israel to ward off a US strike on Iran’s
nuclear sites
(October
7, 2006) - Our military and Washington sources read as
preparatory justification the Syrian ruler Bashar Asad’s statement
Saturday, Oct. 7, that he expects an Israeli attack. He was speaking
in an interview to Kuwaiti paper al-Anba. Asad’s Iranian-backed war
plan would serve the purpose of forcing the Americans to divide their
military assets between a strike against Iran and the defense of their
allies in the Persia Gulf, Israel and US forces in Iraq. Both are
seriously looking at a Syrian attack on the Golan which would escalate
into a full-blown Syrian-Israeli war and a second Hizballah assault
from Lebanon. Asad’s remark that during the Lebanon hostilities, he
was under pressure from the Syrian population to go to war against
Israel and liberate the Golan is the most direct threat of
belligerency of all his four Golan statements in the last month. He is
implying that he stood up to the pressure once but may not do so
again. And for the benefit of the Americans, the Europeans, the Saudis
and the Egyptians - all of whom are pretty fed up with him – Asad is
posing as the picture of self-restraint; anyone else in his place, he
implies, would have taken advantage of the Lebanon war and made a grab
for the Golan. Therefore, he is saying, he deserves to be treated with
the respect due to a strategic asset by Western and moderate Arab
powers instead of being targeted for an ouster. The Syrian ruler would
not threaten war without guarantees from Iran. According to
DEBKAfile’s sources, Asad and Iran’s supreme ruler Ayatollah Ali
Khamenei are prompted by the following motives:
- Tehran is not prepared to wait passively for the Americans to build up their assault force in the Gulf and strike its nuclear facilities. A pre-emptive attack would suit them better.
- Tehran and Damascus have not missed the debilitating crisis in which Israel’s political and military leadership are sunk since the Lebanon war. They do not propose to wait until the IDF pulls itself together enough to handle fresh aggression.
- Both accept Israel’s deputy prime minister Shimon Peres’ assessment that Israel’s cities are not prepared for missile attack. Iran and Syria take it for granted that Israeli leaders understand they cannot afford to launch missiles against either one of them for fear of reprisal in kind.
- Syria believes that if Hizballah could stand up to the Israeli army in Lebanon, its commandoes can capture sections of the Golan and walk off with an easy victory.
- Tehran figures that the Bush administration is coming to the end of its patience in Iraq and preparing for a major review of its position there. The influential U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman, John Warner, said Friday that Iraq's government had 60 to 90 days to control the violence that threatens civil war or the United States would have to reconsider its options. This gives the Maliki government in Baghdad up to December or January to de-escalate if not halt the sectarian war engulfing the country.
Iran, Syria and Hizballah would not be averse to disrupting the American Iraq timeline by attacking Israel and putting the Bush administration on the spot, forced to address three warfronts simultaneously. more... | Iran | Gog/Magog | Israel | Islam | America | This could be Israel's reason to pre-empt the Syrian-Iranian pre-emption and we could see the destruction of Damascus in Isaiah 17. This could be the hooks in the jaws" that brings Iran, Russia, Turkey, and the other players against Israel fulfilling Ezekiel 38,39. This in turn could help allow the Jews to rebuild the temple on the Temple Mount. This, of course, sets the stage for the revealing of the man of sin, the abomination of desolation. Keep watching!
- Iran: Sanctions won't derail enrichment (October 5, 2006) - The U.S., Britain, France, Germany, China and Russia will confer Friday in London to assess Iran's defiant refusal to suspend uranium enrichment. They are expected to refer the nuclear case to the U.N. Security Council for talks next week on possible sanctions, diplomats said Thursday. Russia's foreign minister, however, said he believes it is too soon to impose sanctions on Iran and that further efforts are needed to push Tehran to negotiate. To avoid alienating the Russians and the Chinese, any sanctions are likely to be relatively mild, including embargoes on missile and nuclear technology, and possible travel bans and other penalties on Iranian officials involved in their country's nuclear program. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad reiterated Thursday his country would not be frightened by threats to impose sanctions. "Those who threaten Iran by sanctions and embargo should know that this nation lived under the hardest situation in the past 27 years and achieved nuclear technology. This nation will not be frightened by the threats," state-run television quoted Ahmadinejad as saying. more... | Iran | EU/UN | America | Ok guys, keep talking and talking. Iran needs more time to prepare for war so just keep trying to talk to them even though they aren't listening. In more than just this situation with Iran, the political correctness, work-it-out-with-everybody mentality will end up negotiating ourselves to death...literally. The leaders of Islam have made their point clear, our destruction, and we shouldn't negotiate with those who have promised death to us who won't convert to Islam. The only One that will save us is Christ so if you're still living in the world, it's time to wake up and look to the One who will save your soul, Yeshua (Jesus). If you think this life is hell, avoid the next one
- Iran Making Worldwide Move to Bring Islamic War to American and Israel Soil (September 26, 2006) - The forces of terrorism are organizing a worldwide armada of strategic nations to launch an offensive against the United States and Israel in the near future—not only from the Middle East, but also from locations in Central and South America, Northern Iraq, and the Palestinian territories. From Syrian and Iranian rearming of Hezbollah to Israel’s north, to a movement by Hamas to gain a stronger foothold in the seemingly defunct Palestinian government, to a meeting of Non-Aligned Nations in Cuba, the Islamofascist world is gathering allies and is beginning to coalesce a strategic offensive, that unchecked, could turn both Israel and the United States into an unprecedented war zone. DEBKAfile, a prominent and well respected intelligence news service, reports that Iran and Turkey appear to be preparing to launch a military strike in Northern Iraq against anti-Turkish and anti-Iranian Kurdish rebels that will enable Turkey to seize 40% of Iraq’s oil producing territory and Iran will knock out key Israeli observation sites used for early warnings of Iranian attacks. Meantime, Iran has parlayed behind the scenes agreements with Venezuela and Cuba to consider deploying Iranian missiles in those countries as a defense against a U.S. attack on Iranian nuclear facilities. At the same time, Hezbollah’s Hassan Nasrallah told some 800,000 supporters at a "victory" rally Friday that no army could disarm his paramilitary Shi'ite terror group. Nasrallah claimed that his guerrillas have replenished their arsenal and already have more than 20,000 rockets as United Nations peacekeeping troops insists they have no responsibility to stop the Hezbollah arms build-up. As disturbing is the chilling of relations between the Bush Administration and the Olmert government in Israel. The Bush Administration has supported a coalition government of elected Hamas terrorists and the Palestinian Authority—reportedly without consulting Israel, signaling a new direction in U.S.-Israeli relations. more... | Iran | Gog/Magog | Israel | Islam | America | He's looking to incite Islam to join him. This is another sign, I believe, that he's getting ready to do something soon. Maybe before the year is out? Perhaps the attack against Israel with Turkey, Russia and friends? They're saying it, I don't know what else we need to believe them. But we will see Bible prophecy fulfilled 100%
- Russia to deliver 80 tons of fuel to Iran NPP - Atomstroiexport (September 26, 2006) - Russia and Iran signed Tuesday a supplementary agreement on the delivery of 80 metric tons of nuclear fuel to a nuclear power plant in southern Iran in March 2007, the head of Russia's nuclear exporter said. Russia is helping Iran build the plant at Bushehr, 400 kilometers (250 miles) southwest of the capital, Tehran. The NPP is being constructed under the supervision of the International Atomic Energy Agency, the UN's nuclear watchdog. Sergei Shmatko, the head of Atomstroiexport, Russia's nuclear power equipment and service export monopoly, said the supplementary agreement also stipulated a date for the plant's commissioning. "We have signed a supplementary agreement to the contract for the construction of the Bushehr NPP," Shmatko said. "The agreement stipulates that the date for the power generating launch will be November 2007, and that the plant will be commissioned in September 2007." Last Monday, Sergei Kiriyenko, the head of Russia's Federal Nuclear Power Agency, told journalists on the sidelines of the 50th International Atomic Energy Agency General Conference in Vienna that the Bushehr NPP would be launched in November 2007. "The Bushehr nuclear power plant will be commissioned in September 2007, and the power generating launch will take place in November 2007," Kiriyenko said. At a meeting Tuesday with Mahmoud Janatian, a vice president of Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI), Shmatko said the fuel would be delivered no later than six months prior to the plant's commissioning. more... | Iran |
- Hizbullah Moving Rockets to Palestinian Camps (September 26, 2006) - Hizbullah has been transporting rockets and heavy weaponry to Palestinian camps in south Lebanon just a few miles from the Israeli border, according to Lebanese officials. The officials told WND the office of Lebanese Prime Minister Faud Sinora sent a letter last week to Abbas Zakir, the Palestinian Authority's most senior representative in Lebanon, outlining the alleged Hizbullah weapons transfers into Palestinian camps. The letter noted "unusual activity" in and near the Palestinian camps, including the coming and going of trucks suspected of carrying weapons. Hizbullah has been transporting rockets and heavy weaponry to Palestinian camps in south Lebanon just a few miles from the Israeli border, according to Lebanese officials. The officials told WND the office of Lebanese Prime Minister Faud Sinora sent a letter last week to Abbas Zakir, the Palestinian Authority's most senior representative in Lebanon, outlining the alleged Hizbullah weapons transfers into Palestinian camps. The letter noted "unusual activity" in and near the Palestinian camps, including the coming and going of trucks suspected of carrying weapons. The reports follow a WND article last month quoting Lebanese officials claiming Hizbullah, with the help of Iran, started building underground war bunkers in Lebanon's Palestinian camps. During its 34-day confrontation with Hizbullah in Lebanon that began July 12, Israel destroyed scores of complex Hizbullah bunkers that snaked along the Lebanese side of the Israel-Lebanon border. Military officials said they were surprised by the scale of the Hizbullah bunkers, in which Israeli troops reportedly found war rooms with advanced eavesdropping and surveillance equipment they noted were made by Iran. more... | Iran | Gog/Magog | Israel | Islam | This is where my concern comes from in the "peacekeeping" troops that are going to the Lebanon border from Russia and Turkey. There is clearly an arms infrastructure there in Southern Lebanon and unarmed troops acting as peackeepers in Lebanon wouldn't have far to go to get their weapons they've been stockpiling in these bunkers. It's about 130 miles from the border to Jerusalem. In less than a day troops could rush Jersualem, but as we know from prophecy, God will wipe them out. He's going to 1/6th them, or in our decimal terms, He's going to decimate them. Then the world will know that He is the God of Israel. Ezekiel 38:18-23
- War Signals? (September 21, 2006) - As reports circulate of a sharp debate within the White House over possible US military action against Iran and its nuclear enrichment facilities, The Nation has learned that the Bush Administration and the Pentagon have moved up the deployment of a major "strike group" of ships, including the nuclear aircraft carrier Eisenhower as well as a cruiser, destroyer, frigate, submarine escort and supply ship, to head for the Persian Gulf, just off Iran's western coast. This information follows a report in the current issue of Time magazine, both online and in print, that a group of ships capable of mining harbors has received orders to be ready to sail for the Persian Gulf by October 1. As Time writes in its cover story, "What Would War Look Like?," evidence of the forward deployment of minesweepers and word that the chief of naval operations had asked for a reworking of old plans for mining Iranian harbors "suggest that a much discussed--but until now largely theoretical--prospect has become real: that the U.S. may be preparing for war with Iran." | Iran | America |
- Military Orders Suggest Iran Attack (September 18, 2006) - Two recent orders by the American military have led some observers to conclude that the U.S. is preparing for an attack on Iran. One order was a "Prepare to Deploy" command sent to a submarine, an Aegis-class cruiser, two minesweepers and two mine hunters, telling the ships’ commanders to be ready to move by Oct. 1. The other was a request from the Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) for a fresh look at long-standing U.S. plans to blockade two Iranian oil ports on the Persian Gulf. The orders created a buzz within the military because there are few places in the world where minesweepers could be significant – chief among them, the Strait of Hormuz in the Persian Gulf, where about 40 percent of the world’s oil passes each day. "Coupled with the CNO’s request for a blockade review, a deployment of minesweepers to the west coast of Iran would seem to suggest that a much discussed – but until now largely theoretical – prospect has become real: that the U.S. may be preparing for war with Iran,” according to a special report in Time magazine. more... | Iran | America |
- Iran Adopts North Korean War Strategy (September 15, 2006) - Iran has adopted North Korea's war strategy against the United States. U.S. intelligence sources said Iran has invested in the production of North Korean command and control systems for a missile war against the United States. The sources said Iranian engineers and military officers have been training in Pyongyang to wage a nuclear war against a much stronger opponent. "Teheran has assessed that the United States is preparing a massive strike to destroy Iran's nuclear weapons program," an intelligence source said. "The Iranians see North Korea as its only ally in any defensive effort." Over the last year, the sources said, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has conducted exercises in both Iran and North Korea to test nuclear war scenarios. They said about a dozen senior IRGC engineers attended the North Korean launch of the Taepo Dong-2 intermediate-range missile in July 2006. NICOSIA [MENL] -- Tension has increased between the military and government in the Republic of Cyprus. Cypriot government sources said senior officials have become alarmed over attempts by a clique of senior military commanders to determine decisions regarding the defense budget and the National Guard. The sources said some of the commanders were believed to have been receiving support from the communist Akel Party. "Outrageous things are going on in the armed forces," former Defense Minister Socrates Hasikos, today an opposition parliamentarian, said. more... | Iran |
- Iran Fires Artillery into Iraq, Captures 7 Border Guards (September 12, 2006) - Iran has shelled Iraq and captured seven of its soldiers in an escalation of ongoing skirmishes. Iraqi officials said the Iran Army fired artillery shells into Iraq last week and captured seven soldiers northeast of Baghdad. This was the most serious incident between Iran and Iraq in 2006. Last year, Iraq reported Iranian Navy clashes with Iraqi patrols, Middle East Newsline reported. On Saturday, the Iraqi Defense Ministry reported the Iranian capture of seven members of an Iraqi border patrol. The ministry said the Iraqis were detained while they were stationed at the Hankin border terminal near Haila. The ministry said an investigation has been launched. In August, Kurdish officials in Iraq said the Iran Army shelled suspected insurgency strongholds in northern Iraq. Iran has acknowledged fighting along the border. The state-owned Iranian news agency Irna said on Sept. 7 that Iran captured seven Iraqi soldiers who crossed into Iran's Ilam province. more... | Iran |
- Iran Resumed Weapons Airlift to Hizballah via Beirut Friday as Soon as Israel Ended its Air Blockade (September 11, 2006) - Iran’s first post-blockade arms flight departed Dubai Friday, Sept. 8, to test the ground at Beirut international airport for Israeli air force or UN reactions. DEBKAfile’s military sources report that the forbidden goods were unloaded and sailed through the airport unhindered. Tehran therefore determined to send two further bulk consignments in the next 48 hours aboard commercial flights from the Persian Gulf. Our sources report the arms crates listed were on the documents as “computer equipment. Handle with care.” They were offloaded onto trucks which drove in convoy to Hizballah headquarters in Baalbek. UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, determined to end Israel’s air blockade on Lebanon, promised solemnly that UN monitors would control incoming passengers and goods at Beirut airport. But he failed to make the Siniora government follow through on this pledge. The Lebanese prime minister immediately barred the airport to UN inspections. The five German air monitors agreed on were only allowed to establish a checkpoint for controlling arms smuggling at a distance of one kilometer from the international airport. DEBKAfile reports they are standing idle because the trucks carrying forbidden cargoes are able leave the airfield and bypass their checkpoint by alternative routes. more... | Iran | Israel | Islam |
- How Hi-Tech Hezbollah Called the Shots (September 9, 2006) - Hezbollah's ability to repel the Israel Defense Forces during the recent conflict was largely due to its use of intelligence techniques gleaned from allies Iran and Syria that allowed it to monitor encoded Israeli communications relating to battlefield actions, according to Israeli officials, whose claims have been independently corroborated by the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). "Israeli EW [electronic warfare] systems were unable to jam the systems at the Iranian Embassy in Beirut, they proved unable to jam Hezbollah's command and control links from Lebanon to Iranian facilities in Syria, they blocked the Barak ship anti-missile systems, and they hacked into Israeli operations communications in the field," Richard Sale, the longtime intelligence editor for United Press International, who was alerted to this intelligence failure by current and former CIA officials, told Asia Times Online. more... | Israel | Islam | Iran |
- Iran President Urges West To Follow God's Path (September 7, 2006) - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad urged the West to turn to God's path and said on Wednesday that failure to do so would tempt fate. Iran is embroiled in a nuclear stand-off with the West, which accuses Tehran of seeking to build atomic bombs, a charge Tehran dismisses. Ahmadinejad says Western powers use such accusations as a ploy to hold back Iran's development. "Those who do not respond to the invitation (to follow God's will), as we said, will have no good fate," said Ahmadinejad, who is a devout Shi'ite Muslim and only the second non-cleric to be president of the Islamic Republic. Ahmadinejad -- whose speeches are often peppered with religious and anti-Western remarks -- rebuffed accusations that Iranian policy constitutes a threat to the United States and again challenged President Bush to a live television debate. Washington has said the call for a debate is a diversion. more... | Iran | America | They're sure trying to get us to convert.
- Powers Should Not Isolate Iran: Annan (September 5, 2006) - The international community should not isolate Iran, which has indicated it will cooperate in the reconstruction of Lebanon, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan told a Spanish newspaper. "The international community should count on Iran, not isolate it," Annan said in an interview with El Pais in Qatar which was published on Tuesday. Annan spoke to El Pais after a weekend visit to Tehran as part of a Middle Eastern tour to shore up the ceasefire that ended fighting between Israel and Iranian-backed Lebanese Hizbollah guerrillas. "The general perception is that Iran is acting on its own, giving money to Hizbollah. In my conversations in Tehran, I asked the Iranians to work with other countries in reconstruction. They accepted my request, which is a very helpful attitude," Annan said. Iran's stand-off with Western powers over its nuclear program can only be resolved via negotiation, he said. more... | Iran | EU/UN |
- Iran Enriching Uranium Ahead Of UN Deadline: Paper (August 30, 2006) - Iran has begun enriching a new batch of uranium just days ahead of a U.N. deadline for Tehran to suspend atomic fuel work or face possible sanction, The Washington Post reported on Wednesday. The International Atomic Energy Agency, the Vienna-based U.N. nuclear watchdog, plans to disclose Iran's new enrichment work in a report due out on Thursday, the newspaper said, citing officials in Washington and European capitals who have been monitoring Iran's efforts. The newspaper said the officials stressed that Iran's new work involved small quantities of uranium being enriched to an extremely low level that could not be used for nuclear weapons. The U.N. Security Council has given Iran until Thursday to suspend uranium enrichment -- a process which can produce fuel for civilian reactors or material for nuclear bombs -- and has threatened to consider sanctions unless it does so. Iran has said it would not stop its nuclear activities, which it contends is for generating electricity. "We've seen no indication that Iran intends to comply with the U.N. Security Council's condition of suspending its nuclear program," Undersecretary of State Nicholas Burns told the Post in an interview. "Should it not comply by Thursday, and should the IAEA report confirm Iran's continued efforts to enrich uranium, the U.S. will move to begin sanctions discussion at the United Nations, and we expect a sanctions resolution to be passed," Burns said. | Iran | EU/UN |
- These Are the Facts Herb L. Peters (August 26, 2006) - While putting together the map above a had a thought: "This is not speculation. These are the facts!" You see, we all have seen those prophecy charts and maps in our old Bible prophecy books that where based on the author's understanding of the prophecies. And, here I was, creating a map about recent events, and it looked like what was in those old books. As I've been reporting, we may have the two big players of end-time prophecy moving a peacekeeping force into the Middle East -- the EU and the UN. Their stated goal is to bring a lasting peace. Also as I've been reporting, the 10-nation WEU alliance is the backbone of the EU's new force, which is the backbone of the UN's peacekeeping force. For someone like me who believes in prophecy and has followed the rise of the WEU alliance from its beginning, the recent news is almost overwhelming. If you've read my book, you may understand why. Let's take a closer look at where the WEU peacekeepers will be deployed. Like I mentioned before, these events aren't speculation -- they're the facts on the ground EU/WEU | Russia | Iran | Arab League. The scary part is, all the players appear to be in place for the 70th week of Daniel. The only thing missing may be the religious element to the UN -- or is it? My friend Constance Cumbey called a few minutes ago and directed me to the Website of the Eighth World Assembly of Religions for Peace. And, guess whose smiling face showed up? That's right, Club of Rome President, His Royal Highness Prince El Hass bin Talal. Remember? We were asking where the religious element to the UN came in. Bingo! As I write in my book, the EU's Javier Solana is a member of the Spanish chapter of the Club of Rome. The club's primary purpose is the creation of what they call global governance. That explains the club's interest in the UN. And, since the Club of Rome's president is the person pictured above, establishing a global religion appears to be part of their agenda. In fact, take a look at what I found on the World Assembly of Religions for Peace Website. more... | Iran | Gog/Magog | Israel | Islam | EU/UN |
- 'Ahmadinejad Would Sacrifice Half of Iran to Wipe Out Israel (August 25, 2006) - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, if he ever became the supreme decision maker in his country, would "sacrifice half of Iran for the sake of eliminating Israel," Giora Eiland, Israel's former national security adviser, told The Jerusalem Post on Thursday. At present, Eiland stressed, the ultimate decision maker in Iran was Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, 67, whom he said was "more reasonable." But, Eiland went on, "if Ahmadinejad were to succeed him - and he has a reasonable chance of doing so - then we'd be in a highly dangerous situation." The 49-year-old Iranian president, he said, "has a religious conviction that Israel's demise is essential to the restoration of Muslim glory, that the Zionist thorn in the heart of the Islamic nations must be removed. And he will pay almost any price to right the perceived historic wrong. If he becomes the supreme leader and has a nuclear capability, that's a real threat." In facing up to Iran's nuclear ambitions, Eiland said the United States had three possible courses of action, "all of them bad," and that a decision could not be postponed for too long, "since delay, too, is a decision of sorts." more... | Iran | Israel | Islam |
- Russia and Central Asian Allies Conduct War Games in Response to US Threats (August 24, 2006) - Barely acknowledged by the Western media, military exercises organized by Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan under the Collective Security Treaty Organization, (CSTO) were launched on the 24th of August. These war games, officially tagged as part of a counter terrorism program, are in direct response to US military threats in the region including the planned attacks against Iran. The Rubezh-2006 exercise, is scheduled to take place from August 24-29 near the Kazak port city of Aktau: "It will be the first joint military exercise undertaken by CSTO countries, and will involve 2,500 members drawn from various armed services of member states, with Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan the principal participants. Uzbekistan, which has recently rejoined the CSTO, will send observers, while the two other pact members, Belarus and Armenia, will not be taking part .( IPWR News Briefing Central Asia) Press reports from the region describe these war games as a response to US military presence and ambitions in Central Asia: "The growing militarization is connected with mutual mistrust among countries in the region, say analysts. Iranian media have speculated that the United States is using Azerbaijan to create a military counterweight to Iran on the Caspian. It is possible that the exercise conducted by the CSTO – in which Russia is dominant – represents a response to concerns about United States involvement in developing Kazakstan’s navy. Observers say Russia is leaning more and more towards the Iranian view that countries from outside should be banned from having armed forces in the Caspian Sea." Experts say the US is trying to step up the pressure on Iran, as well as to defend its own investments in Azerbaijan and Kazakstan. It is also trying to guarantee the security of the strategically vital Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline. more... | Iran | Gog/Magog | Israel | Islam | EU/UN | Hmm... Looks like Russia and company are flexing their muscles in defense of Iran. Surprised?
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DEBKAfile Exclusive: American electronic warfare experts in Israel to find out how Hizballah’s Iranian systems neutralized Israeli EW (August 23, 2006) - The American EW experts are interested in four areas. 1. The Israeli EW systems’ failure to block Hizballah’s command and communications and the links between the Lebanese command and the Syria-based Iranian headquarters. 2. How Iranian technicians helped Hizballah eavesdrop on Israel’s communications networks and mobile telephones, including Israeli soldiers’ conversations from inside Lebanon. 3. How Iranian EW installed in Lebanese army coastal radar stations blocked the Barak anti-missile missiles aboard Israeli warships, allowing Hizballah to hit the Israeli corvette Hanith. 4. Why Israeli EW was unable to jam the military systems at the Iranian embassy in Beirut, which hosted the underground war room out of which Hassan Nasrallah and his top commanders, including Imad Mughniyeh, functioned. Until the watershed date of July 12, 2006, when the Hizballah triggered the Lebanon War, Israel was accounted an important world power in the development of electronic warfare systems – so much so that a symbiotic relationship evolved for the research and development of many US and Israeli electronic warfare systems, in which a mix of complementary American and Israeli devices and methods were invested. In combat against Hizballah, both were not only found wanting, but had been actively neutralized, so that none performed the functions for which they were designed. This poses both the US and Israel with a serious problem in a further round of the Lebanon war and any military clash with Iran. more... | Iran | Israel | Islam |
- World's Greatest Diplomat by Herb L. Peters (August 22, 2006) - According to this report, the UN's Kofi Annan is the world's top diplomat Read about it here. I don't think so. Annan may be a player, but it's certainly not because of having any special diplomatic skills. That's why I fear Annan's involvement in finding a solution to the Middle East crisis is not only unwise -- it's dangerous. So, how did Annan wiggle himself into the crisis? I suspect Annan's opening may have been the EU's Javier Solana, and Solana's opening US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. If you recall, when the crisis broke Solana first met with British Prime Minster Tony Blair. Soon after a microphone inadvertently left on caught Blair delivering a message through President Bush to give to Rice. Only a few days later Rice attended a dinner with Solana and Annan. I believe that's where it may have happened. You see, Solana developed a close relation with Rice and I believe he may have used his influence to bring Annan in to help settle the crisis. Keep in mind, part of Solana's security doctrine calls for creating a new international order through the UN. The saddest thing about all this is what happened to Israel. It's becoming obvious that the war went wrong. In fact, many Israelis are demanding an investigate to uncovered exactly what happened. The picture that's forming reminds me of what happened at the Bay of Pigs. The US government assembled a group of Cuban freedom fighters and promised air support for their invasion. At the last minute, the new Kennedy Administration called back the planes. The result was their invasion plan turned to a disaster and the freedom fighters were killed or captured. Here's what I think: As in the Bay of Pigs, I believe Israel and the US may have agreed to a well thought out plan. But, after Israel set out to fulfill that plan, the US, for some reason, suddenly changed it. The result was the well thought out plan turned to a disaster. A few days ago I was listening to Bill O'Reilly interviewing a former US Ambassador to the UN. O'Reilly asked why France talked the US into going along with a UN Resolution that later France refused to support Read about it here. The former Ambassador answered it was Rice's fault -- she said Rice should have known France is hard to work with. In other words, this former Ambassador also believed that Rice may have been deceived. This brings us back to the dinner Rice had with Solana and Annan. You see, I too believe Rice may have been deceived -- but not by France. I suspect Rice may have been deceived by the world's greatest diplomat. And, it wasn't Kofi Annan. more... | Iran | Israel | Islam | EU/UN | This is some background information on Solana. More here.
- Iran's Navy Attacks and Boards Romanian Rig in Gulf (August 22, 2006) - Iran attacked and seized control of a Romanian oil rig working in its Persian Gulf waters this morning one week after the Iranian government accused the European drilling company of "hijacking'' another rig. An Iranian naval vessel fired on the rig owned by Romania's Grup Servicii Petroliere (GSP) in the Salman field and took control of its radio room at about 7:00 a.m. local time, Lulu Tabanesku, Grup's representative in the United Arab Emirates said in a phone interview from Dubai today. "The Iranians fired at the rig's crane with machine guns,'' Tabanesku said. "They are in control now and we can't contact the rig.'' The Romanian company has 26 workers on the platform, he said. Iran, which holds the world's second-largest oil and gas reserves, is due to respond today to a European Union-led offer of incentives aimed at persuading it to halt uranium enrichment activities that are crucial to its nuclear program. Neither the press office of Iran's oil ministry nor the one of Iran's revolutionary guards could be reached for comment when called. Today is a national holiday in Iran. more... | Iran | EU/UN |
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Israel Must Be Ready For Any Iranian Attack: Minister (August
22, 2006) - Israel
should prepare for the possibility of a missile attack from
Iran,
a cabinet minister said on Tuesday. "We are liable to face an Iranian
missile attack. The Iranians have said very clearly that if they come
under attack, their primary target would be Israel," Rafi Eitan, a
member of the decision-making inner cabinet, told Israel Radio. Iran
could fire missiles at the Jewish state "therefore we must prepare for
what could come, and prepare the entire country for a missile strike
attack, to prepare all the civilian systems so they are ready for
this," Eitan said. The radio said Eitan, a former spymaster, meant
that Israel should prepare its bomb shelters to protect against a
possible Iranian attack. It quoted Eitan as alluding to the current
international standoff with Iran over its uranium enrichment, saying
if the situation deteriorates, Israel would be the first to come under
attack. Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has called for Israel to
be "wiped off the map." He has said Israel "should not assume" its
ceasefire with Iranian-backed Hizbollah guerrillas last week means an
end to the crisis. Hizbollah fired 4,000 rockets on northern Israel
during the war. Iranian cleric Amad Khatami has said that Iran would
hit Tel Aviv with medium-ranged missiles it came under attack. Arms
experts say Iran's Shahab-3 missiles are capable of striking Israel.
Eitan's remarks also came as tensions rose between Iran and six world
powers led by the United States, who have sought to persuade Tehran to
halt its uranium enrichment program, with an August 31 deadline for
Tehran to face possible sanctions from the United Nations.
Israel is widely believed to be the only nuclear power in the Middle
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this time in the upcoming months truly is that time of the Gog/Magog
invasion, Israel won't have to do a thing. God will take care of 5/6
of the attackers, leaving only 1/6 alive.
Ezekiel 39:1-5
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Speculation Rages About Iran's Plans For August 22 (August
21, 2006) - August 22 could usher in an apocalyptic period in
the Middle East thanks to some belligerent action on the part of the
Iranian regime. Or maybe not. The date was chosen by Tehran and had no
obvious relevance in international diplomacy. The only formal deadline
the international community is currently awaiting with regard to Iran
is August 31 -- the date set by the U.N. Security Council for Iran to
suspend uranium enrichment or face the possibility of sanctions. Some
commentators have downplayed the importance of August 22, arguing that
the decision was simply one of convenience, akin to saying "we'll
respond by the end of the month." August 22 marks the end of the
Persian solar month of Mordad. But others are less sanguine, noting
that the date is significant in Islam, for several reasons. It
coincides with the Islamic calendar date Rajab 28, the day Jerusalem
fell to the Islamic warrior Saladin, in October 1187. Many Muslims
regard Saladin's victory as a high point in Islamic history, and just
weeks ago, Syrian fans of Hizballah leader Hassan Nasrallah were
likening him to the 12th century Kurdish hero. On the night of August
21-22, Muslims believe Mohammed underwent his "night journey," a trip
on a magical steed from Mecca via the "farthest mosque" -- later said
to be al-Aqsa in Jerusalem -- and on to heaven and back. The two-stage
journey is known in Islam as the "isla and miraj," and tradition holds
that a divine white light appeared over Jerusalem at the time.
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Today's the day if there is any validity to what some are speculating
about Iran's plans for the 22nd. Will they attack Israel today? If
they try to nuke Jerusalem, which won't happen because Bible prophecy
has Jerusalem there throughout the millennium, it will be stopped by
God. We also know that the invading army is wiped out in the mountains
of Israel, so if it is today, I would expect that there would be more
border buildup of troops to the North of Israel. Of course, Iran is
doing military exercises right now, so they could surprise everyone.
However, I don't expect we'll see an attack today, but I do believe
we will see one very soon! There are other theories on the placement
of the Gog/Magog invasion, so I could be wrong on it's timing, but so
many aspects are all lined up for it to occur now. Keep watching!
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Iran’s Military Exercise and Apocalyptic Plans for Israel and World (August
20, 2006) - Washington is keeping a sharp weather eye out for
Tuesday, August 22, which this year corresponds in the Islamic
calendar to the date on which many Sunni Muslims commemorate the night
flight of the prophet Muhammad on his winged horse Buraq to “the
farthest mosque”, which is traditionally identified with Jerusalem.
According to the Muslim legend, on that day, a divine white light
spread over Jerusalem and the whole world. DEBKAfile’s intelligence
sources report that information rated “highly credible” has reached US
undercover agencies of a secret report presented to Iran’s supreme
ruler Ali Khamenei by Abdollah Shabhazi, one of the heads of the
Supreme National Security Council. He claims to expose a mega-terror
plot against Jerusalem scheduled for August 22, which aims at killing
large numbers of Jews, Arabs and Christians. This atrocity will
reportedly arm the United States and Israel with the pretext for
hitting Iran’s nuclear installations, as well its capital, Tehran, and
other big cities. Shabhazi says the US and Israel need to launch a
military campaign to restore the deterrent strength they lost in the
Lebanon war. The massive attack will reportedly focus on the Old City
of Jerusalem and its eastern suburbs. The Iranian report claims that
the plotters, who are not identified, are eager to recreate the divine
white light whish spread over Jerusalem in the year 632. It does not
rule out the use of a non-conventional weapon. DEBKAfile reports that
the authorities in Israel do not appear to be taking this threat
seriously, unlike Washington – and Tehran. Deeply impressed, Iran’s
rulers launched a large-scale are, sea and ground exercise Saturday,
Aug. 19. The maneuver, dubbed the Blow of Zolfaghar (the sword used by
Imam Ali), involves 12 divisions, army Chinook helicopters, unmanned
planes, parachutists, electronic war units and special forces.
State-run television reported a new anti-aircraft system was tested
“to make Iranian air space unsafe for our enemies.” The massive
military exercise will spread over 14 of Iran’s 30 provinces and last
about five weeks. DEBKAfile adds: The point of this massive display of
might is in fact to place Iran’s armed forces on the ready for the
contingency of a US-Israeli offensive on August 22 as per Shabhazi’s
prediction. The exercise will be moved to Tehran to prepare the
capital for a potential assault. August 22, furthermore, is also the
day of Iran’s formal reply to the incentives packages on offer from
the West in return for halting its uranium enrichment projects. For
weeks, Tehran was under pressure from the United States and Europe for
an earlier reply, but insisted on August 22. Prof. Bernard Lewis, the
great scholar of Islam and the Middle East offers the background in
the Wall Street Journal on Aug. 8: “In Islam, as in Judaism and
Christianity, there are certain beliefs concerning the cosmic struggle
at the end of time - Gog and Magog, anti-Christ, Armageddon, and for
Shiite Muslims, the long awaited return of the Hidden Imam… Mr.
Ahmadinejad and his followers clearly believe that this time is now,
and that the terminal struggle has already begun and is indeed well
advanced. It may even have a date, indicated by several references by
the Iranian president to giving his final answer to the U.S. about
nuclear development by Aug. 22. This was at first reported as "by the
end of August," but Mr. Ahmadinejad's statement was more precise.”
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wrote above, I don't think this date will ultimately mark the invasion
of Gog/Magog, but we'll see. Keep watching!
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| Iranian Army Ready For Israel Action After Lebanon War (August 19, 2006) - A senior Iranian army commander said on Saturday the armed forces were prepared for any action by Israel after what Iran has called the Jewish state's defeat at the hands of Lebanon's Hizbullah guerrillas. Ataollah Salehi, commander-in-chief of Iran's army, made his comment on the first day of army wargames, which started in the south of the country but will later extend to other areas. He did not say how long the maneuvers would last. | Iran | Gog/Magog | Israel | Islam | One of the many reasons I think the Gog/Magog invasion is coming soon... They're basically stating it will be soon. The Iranian President has promised the Israel "problem" would be resolved soon. Click the Iran link above for more specific stories focused on Iran. | |
| Prepare For The Next Round (August 16, 2006) - The IDF has exacted a heavy price from Hizbullah for its aggression, but failed to achieve an unequivocal victory. It was a mistake to believe that military pressure could generate a process whereby the Lebanese government would disarm Hizbullah. Neither the latest UN Security Council resolution or the deployment of an international force will be able to overcome the centrifugal political processes that have beleaguered the divided Lebanese society. Similarly mistaken was the belief that reliance on air power could paralyze Hizbullah's capacity to harm Israel by launching thousands of short-range rockets. The political and military circumstances surrounding the cessation of the fighting in Lebanon have left Hizbullah shaken but still a force to be reckoned with in Lebanon and a proxy for Syria and Iran. Subduing Syria is the key to managing the Lebanese crisis, to rolling back Hizbullah, and to weakening Iran and its radical Islamist influence in the Middle East. In order to attain victory in the next military engagement, Israel should target Damascus. more... | Iran | Gog/Magog | Israel | Islam | Keep in mind that Damascus is prophesied to be a ruinous heap in Isaiah 17:1-14. | |
| Hezbollah Leads Work to Rebuild, Gaining Stature (August 16, 2006) - As stunned Lebanese returned Tuesday over broken roads to shattered apartments in the south, it increasingly seemed that the beneficiary of the destruction was most likely to be Hezbollah. A major reason — in addition to its hard-won reputation as the only Arab force that fought Israel to a standstill — is that it is already dominating the efforts to rebuild with a torrent of money from oil-rich Iran. Nehme Y. Tohme, a member of Parliament from the anti-Syrian reform bloc and the country’s minister for the displaced, said he had been told by Hezbollah officials that when the shooting stopped, Iran would provide Hezbollah with an “unlimited budget” for reconstruction. In his victory speech on Monday night, Hezbollah’s leader, Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, offered money for “decent and suitable furniture” and a year’s rent on a house to any Lebanese who lost his home in the month-long war. “Completing the victory,” he said, “can come with reconstruction.” On Tuesday, Israel began to pull many of its reserve troops out of southern Lebanon, and its military chief of staff said all of the soldiers could be back across the border within 10 days. Lebanese soldiers are expected to begin moving in a couple of days, supported by the first of 15,000 foreign troops. more... | Iran | Islam | A little peek into how Iran and Islam will use the Lebanon situation to turn even more hatred toward Israel while making charity a priority to bring in more converts to the extremist Islam cause. | |
| Neighbors Smell Blood in Israeli Cease-Fire Acceptance (August 14, 2006) - Arabs and Muslims from Iran, Hizbullah and the PA are celebrating Israel’s acceptance of the UN ceasefire, dubbing it a "surrender" and calling on Arab states to attack the new "weak" Israel. “After one month of war against Lebanon's resistance, Israelis are the absolute losers and Hizbullah is the absolute winner of the war,” Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamida-Reza Asefi said Sunday. “The occupiers of Jerusalem failed, despite their military, economic, intelligence and diplomatic backings.” The Iranian official said the Islamic Republic of Iran is “very pleased” with the ceasefire, according to state-run Iranian news agency IRNA. He warned, though, that attacks on Israel would continue as long as “occupation lingers.” He declined to outline whether occupation included retaining sovereignty in regions such as the Galilee – which Hizbullah chief Hassan Nasrallah has termed “settlements” in his wartime addresses. "Let us not forget that as long as there is occupation there is resistance," he added. more... | Iran | Gog/Magog | Israel | Islam | | |
| Iran Says Disarming Lebanese Hizbollah "Illogical" (August 13, 2006) - Iran welcomed on Sunday a planned ceasefire to halt the month-long war between Lebanon's Hizbollah and Israel but described the U.N. Security Council's call for disarming the Iranian-backed group as "illogical". The U.N. Security Council adopted a resolution on Friday calling for a "full cessation of hostilities" and for the implementation of a previous U.N. resolution requiring the disarming of armed groups including Hizbollah. "We are happy for the ceasefire in Lebanon. But the resolution is not balanced," Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi told a weekly news conference. "It does not condemn the Zionist regime (Israel) and its crimes in Lebanon." Asked about the call for disarming Hizbollah, Asefi said: "This is a totally unreasonable demand. It is illogical." "Let us not forget that as long as there is occupation there is resistance," he added. more... | Iran | Israel | Islam | What about the fact that the "occupation" is the direct result of provocation by Hizbollah through the kidnapping and continued barrages of missiles on Israeli towns? The rhetoric is so one-sided from the Muslim community and yet the world always seems to take their side. Just like before WWII, Hitler used lies to get the world on his side and then turned on them all bringing about a world war. So too does it appear that WWIII will go the same way. There's much talk about Iran doing something on August 22 this year. It would certainly fit with Bible prophecy. Iran, Syria, Turkey, and several other nations are destined to attack Israel and be wiped out by God "in the mountains of Israel." Time will tell. | |
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Ahmadinejad, Putin Discuss ME Developments By Phone (August
12, 2006) - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his
Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, discussed latest developments in
the Middle East, particularly the continuing war in Lebanon, in a
telephone conversation on Friday. Ahmadinejad expressed Tehran's deep
concern over the effects of the Zionist regime's massive strikes on
Lebanon's civilian population and infrastructure which have now
entered their fifth week. "We are seriously concerned that the ongoing
situation (in Lebanon) would create a backlash in regional nations,
inciting extreme anger among Muslim youth, in particular, over the
Zionists' brutal aggression against Lebanon," said the Iranian
president. He said he feared continuation of the crisis in Lebanon
would create an "implosion" which, in turn, would "cause the crisis to
spread to the entire region." Criticizing certain Western countries
for their opposition to the 72-hour truce proposed by Russia to take
effect in southern Lebanon, Ahmadinejad warned that if international
organizations, the United Nations in particular, failed to take
measures to end the ongoing carnage in Lebanon "they would be
completely discredited." Russia earlier this week proposed a 72-hour
truce to allow humanitarian aid to reach areas most affected in the
war as continued diplomatic wrangling delayed a UN Security Council
resolution to end hostilities. The proposal was rejected by Israel,
saying it would give Hezbollah a grace period to "re-group and
recover."
US Ambassador to the UN John Bolton also said he could not see how the
Russian proposal would help create an environment for a lasting
ceasefire. more...
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His clear annihilation desires for Israel are hardly silent. This is a
veiled threat just like they always use, reminding of the impending
danger if we don't comply to their wishes. Look for lots more of this.
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| Mike Wallace Hired as Iranian Spin Doctor? (August 11, 2006) - It takes a whole lot to shock me these days, but I must admit that my jaw dropped upon hearing "retired" CBS newsman Mike Wallace gush over Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The "60 minutes" correspondent, who retired last March, was all excited about his exclusive interview with Iranian president, and to be fair it was a journalistic coup. However, after hearing Wallace discuss the interview with Sean Hannity on his radio show, if I were working for the State Department, I'd investigate whether or not Mike Wallace registered as an agent for a foreign government. Ahmadinejad couldn't buy better spin and publicity. According to CBS News, Wallace's interview will air on "CBS Evening News" on Thursday and on "60 Minutes" on Sunday. Wallace -- who has never impressed me as someone with intellectual prowess -- said that the maniacal dictator is "a rather attractive man, very smart, savvy, self-assured, good looking in a strange way. He's very, very short but he's comfortable in his own skin." I don't know about you, but I smell a dinner date on the horizon for Ahmadinejad and Wallace. I guess it's those cool sheets Ahmandinejad wears that makes Wallace's heart flutter. more... | Iran | | |
| Iranian Cataclysm Forecast Aug. 22 (August 9, 2006) - A top expert on the Mideast says it is possible Iran could pick Aug. 22, the anniversary of one of Islam's holiest events, for a cataclysm Shiite Muslims believe will forever resolve the battle between "good" and "evil." Princeton's Bernard Lewis has written an opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal advising that the rest of the world would be wise to bear in mind that for those who believe the end of the world is imminent and good, there is no deterrent even to nuclear warfare. As WorldNetDaily has reported, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has urged his people to prepare for the coming of an Islamic "messiah," raising concerns a nuclear-armed Islamic Republic could trigger the kind of global conflagration he envisions will set the stage for the end of the world. He's also said, in a WND report, that Islam and its followers must prepare to rule the world, because it is a "universal ideology that leads the world to justice." Now comes Lewis, who notes that the world must be concerned about a leader for whom the possibility of death is not a deterrent. "In this context, mutual assured destruction, the deterrent that worked so well during the Cold War, would have no meaning," Lewis wrote. "At the end of time, there will be general destruction anyway. What will matter will be the final destination of the dead – hell for the infidels, and heaven for the believers. "For people with this mindset, MAD is not a constraint, it is an inducement," he said. Lewis noted that Ahmadinejad has referred to Aug. 22 several times, including when he rejected – until that date – United Nations requests for nuclear program information. Lewis, joining several other Mideast experts who have expressed similar concerns, said Aug. 22 corresponds to the 27th day of the month of Rajab of the year 1427. "This, by tradition, is the night when many Muslims commemorate the night flight of the prophet Muhammad on the winged horse Buraq, first to 'the farthest mosque,' usually identified with Jerusalem, and then to heaven and back," Lewis wrote. In Islam, as in other religious, certain beliefs describe the "cosmic struggle" at the end of time. For Shiite Muslims, Lewis wrote, this will be "the long awaited return of the Hidden Imam, ending in the final victory of the forces of good over evil." more... | Iran | Gog/Magog | Israel | Islam | I don't know if there is truly anything to this. If this is a reality, then we could possibly see the Gog/Magog invasion on the 22nd. With the Lebanon-Israel conflict dying down, perhaps that will be an excuse to build up troops on the border or something? Time will tell. | |
| Iran Prepares for War With Israel and U.S. (August 2, 2006) - The authoritative Middle East News Line has confirmed that Iran has ordered preparations for war with Israel and the United States. In the first such order, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has ordered its more than 300,000 troops to prepare for a confrontation with Israel and the United States. IRGC has directed as well as participated in the Hezbollah war against Israel. “Iran’s powerful Revolutionary Guards and Basij [a branch of the IRGC] should prepare themselves to get even with Zionists and Americans,” IRGC commander Maj. Gen. Yahya Rahim Safavi said. “The supreme leader [Ali Khamenei] will announce the time for this.” Safavi said Iran would avenge Israeli air attacks on Lebanon. He said the Israeli military was aided by aircraft and weapons from the United States. “We have to keep this sacred hatred of the enemies of Islam alive in our hearts until the time of revenge comes,” Safavi said on July 30. “I hope our nation can one day avenge the blood of innocent people in Palestine, Lebanon, Iraq and Afghanistan. I ask God to arouse the dignity of Muslims and destroy America, Israel and their associates.” Yesterday, Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki discussed strategy in Beirut with Hezbollah and Lebanese leaders. Mottaki’s visit, welcomed by France, took place as the Lebanese leadership was said to have drawn closer to Iran during the current war with Israel. Western intelligence sources said IRGC has deployed nearly 1,000 soldiers in Lebanon, many of them along the border with Syria. The sources said IRGC officers participated in the battle against Israel for Bint Jbail, about three kilometers from the Jewish state. So far, Iran has denied that it sent fighters to Lebanon. But Teheran has reported efforts by so-called volunteers to aid Hezbollah. more... | Iran | Gog/Magog | Israel | Islam | There have been more recent reports by Israeli troops that they have found bodies wearing Iranian Revolutionary Guard uniforms in Lebanon. Also, rocket fragments found in Israel fired from Lebanon were found to be Russian-made rockets. They lie to the media and the media fails to cover certain things. Meanwhile the world blindly walks into the execution chamber while the Islamo-Facists sharpen their swords. | |
| Ahmadinejad: "Death To Israel" (August 2, 2006) - The following are excerpts from an interview with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, which aired on the Iranian News Channel (IRINN) on August 2, 2006. It is followed by excerpts from an interview with Iranian Expediency Council Secretary Mohsen Rezai, which aired on the Iranian News Channel (IRINN) on August 1, 2006. |
Clip # 1222–Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad: "Death to Israel" - Mahmoud Ahmadinejad: "I hereby declare that this sinister regime [Israel] is the banner of Satan. It is the banner of the Great Satan. All it does is to implement the orders of the criminal America and England. They think that the peoples are the same as they were 100 years ago. They are not aware that things have changed in the world. Today, all the peoples have awoken. The Iranian people is the standard-bearer of this awakening for all the peoples. As we can see, from the southernmost point in South America to the easternmost point in Asia, all the people are shouting a single cry. With placards in their hands and clenched fists, they shout: Death to Israel."
Clip # 1221–Secretary of Iranian Expediency Council Mohsen Rezai: Israel hould Expect Very Difficult Days in Tel Aviv and Beyond - Mohsen Rezai: "I predict that Hizbullah will deal much more decisive blows upon Israel. If Israel does not declare a cease-fire soon and does not end the war, it should expect very difficult days in cities like Tel Aviv, and even deeper inside Israel. I believe that if America and Israel use their brains and end this war as soon as possible, they may save themselves from many of the ramifications."
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Iran Says US Or Israeli Attack Will Face "Raging Sea" (August
8, 2006) - Any U.S. or Israeli attack against Iran
will be returned by a force 100 times stronger, the head of the
Revolutionary Guards said on Monday, as pressure mounts on Tehran's atomic
work and its support for Hizbollah. "There is no doubt that if these
criminals attempt any operation or vicious assault, they will receive blows
100 times harder," said Yahya Rahim-Safavi, commander-in-chief of the
Revolutionary Guards. "They will not last against the raging sea of the
Iranian people and the power of Islamic Iran," he was quoted as saying by
the official IRNA news agency. The U.N. Security
Council
has demanded Iran end its atomic work by the end of this month after Tehran
failed to convince the international community its atomic scientists were
only working on power stations and not on bombs. Washington has declined to
rule out military strikes as a solution to the nuclear dispute.
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What options are there? They've said they're going to work on
nukes regardless and if anyone tries to stop them, they will face a "raging
sea." With Iran openly calling for the destruction of Israel, how long do
you think Israel can afford to hold off that threat, not to mention the rest
of the world? I have no doubt that Iran would attack, that's what Gog/Magog
is all about. We could be very close to
Ezekiel
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Iran Threatens To Use 'Oil Weapon' In Nuclear Standoff (August
7, 2006) - Iran warned Britain and the US yesterday that the
international community could face a new oil crisis if the United Nations
security council imposes sanctions on Tehran over its alleged attempt to
acquire a nuclear weapons-making capability. Speaking in Tehran, Ali
Larijani, the country's chief nuclear negotiator and head of the supreme
national security council, said Iran would be reluctant to cut its oil
exports. "We do not want to use the oil weapon. It is them who would impose
it upon us." But Mr Larijani added that if the west did decide on sanctions,
"we will react in a way that would be painful for them ... Do not force us
to do something that will make people shiver in the cold." more...
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I believe they would, and probably will.
They're getting pretty cocky and for good reason. Much of the weak West just
gives them whatever they demand. Read through the news and you'll see
stories of Christians being shut up for speaking up about the clear dangers
of this religion of hate that's spreading across the globe. How can I say
that? I don't have to, listen to them. Read their own Koran. There's
a reason they hate Jews, and it's not because of the lie that the Jews stole
their land. The evidence is in history and the proof is in the documents
that created Israel. I've seen a picture of Jerusalem before Israel was
there. It was desolate except for a small number of residents. Now as soon
as Israel was back in the land, they started making a big stink because
according to their religion, once Islam takes a land, no other group can
have it. Their goal is world domination and conversion to Islam or death.
I'm afraid most people will wake up to this reality when the blade is at
their neck. Until then, just giving them what they want will only lead to
our downfall, of course that's Bible prophecy too. Time to make a choice.
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The Prince of Persia, the Prince of Tyre, and The Prince of
the Armies of Heaven
Prayer Update from
Israel
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subscription (August
7, 2006) - The battle we are in is a
conflict which our friend Chuck Pierce has called a "confederation
of demonic hosts that are aligned against God's covenant plan."
These dark powers are working through evil men in high places who are
speaking boastful words, "defying the armies of the Living God." Last
week Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, speaking to an emergency
meeting of Muslim leaders in Malaysia, said that the main solution for
the Middle East crisis is "the elimination of the Zionist regime" (in
other words, the annihilation of the Nation of Israel). While the spirit
inhabiting this man breathes out curses against Zion, the Reading
from the Prophets in synagogues this past weekend included
As this ancient evil over Persia (Iran) issues its threats through this human figurehead, so does the Prince of Tyre, through his emissary Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah. Looked up to by many in Lebanon as a Messiah figure, the Hizbullah chieftain has recently taunted Israel's faith, claiming that his army's faith is far stronger than that of Israel, that Hizbullah is the "Army of Allah" which will be used to defeat Israel and the U.S. and bring a great salvation to all Islamic peoples. In Ezekiel 28 we are given a portrait of the "faith" of the Prince of Tyre-"Your heart is lifted up and you have said, 'I am El (God), I sit in the seat of Elohim'. yet you are a man, and not a god, though you set your heart as the heart of a god . . . they shall throw you down into the Pit, and you shall die the death of the slain" (vss. 1,8). There is only one "EL" and that is "EL ELYON"-GOD MOST HIGH- who in Yeshua (Jesus) His Son is GOD WITH US (Immanu-EL) -- born in Bethlehem, whose Name is now above Every Name which is Named. | Iran | Gog/Magog | Islam | NewWorldOrder | This is Christianese, but it's so true. Even America is manipulated by these dark forces in high places. It's all falling into place exactly how the Bible says it will. Even though dark times are coming, eternity follows close on it's heels. Keep watching! | |
| Terrorists Fight Israel With Russian Weapons (August 7, 2006) - Israeli Internal Security Minister Avi Dichter has said in an interview that "all the terrorists surrounding Israel" are using Russian weapons, AFP reports. "All the terrorists surrounding Israel are using Russian and Soviet-made arms — Kalashnikov assault rifles and Katyusha rockets," Dichter told the Russian daily Vremya Novostei in an interview published Tuesday. "We don't have information about direct contacts between Hezbollah combatants and Russia, but we know quite well about Hezbollah's direct contacts with Syria and Iran," Dichter said. Russian sales of anti-aircraft missiles to Syria and Iran have been heavily criticized by the United States and Israel. Last week, the U.S. government imposed sanctions on Russian jetmaker Sukhoi and arms export monopoly Rosoboronexport, citing their weapons sales to Iran. President Vladimir Putin defended the sale of anti-aircraft missiles to Syria in 2004, saying they posed no threat to Israel. more... | Iran | Gog/Magog | Israel | Islam | Is it much of a surprise since Russia is clearly on the side of Iran and Syria? They've been working on a navy base in Syria, selling weapons to Iran, and who knows what else behind the scene. Not only that, but they are a potential attacker of Israel from the North, the Gog/Magog invasion. As it stands now, their missiles are exploding in Israel. | |
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Iran Declares Its Nuclear Bad Intentions (August
7, 2006) - At what point do Americans and the rest of the world begin
to take Iran’s leader, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, seriously? He is making no
secret of his plans to acquire and use nuclear weapons against Israel,
England and America. As any student in Psychology 101 learns, there is
something called “projection” in which an individual “projects” onto another
person their own intentions, motivations, and justifications. If I say you
are planning to harm me, there’s a strong chance the truth is that I am
planning to harm you. On August 1, he was addressing a rally that was
carried on the Iranian News Channel (IRINN) and his speech was translated by
the
Middle East Media Research Center for anyone
to read. Ahmadinejad was denouncing Israel’s efforts to defend itself
against the rain of Iranian-supplied rockets and missiles, and of course, it
was their own fault they were under attack. The crowd was chanting “Death to
Israel.” He proceeded to give his own history lesson to the crowd, but
since he does not believe the Holocaust ever happened along with some other
extraordinarily paranoid notions, his version is a bit skewed. “They are a
bunch of Zionists. Where have they come from? As you know, the rule of
hegemony and the web of colonialism strived to establish a base in the heart
of the Middle East.” “A hundred years ago, they began to devise conspiracies
on the basis of a diabolical plan. Bit by bit they (Jews) arrived (in what
was then the British protectorate of Palestine) and backed by the devious,
deceiving England, they sneaked people in, and placed them in control over
the people of Palestine.” The real history could fill a book, but suffice
it to say that a very small group of European Jews, despairing of ever being
accepted in their home countries, rife with anti-Semitism, concluded that
Jews should immigrate to Palestine with a view to reestablishing the nation
of Israel. The idea began with the publication, in 1896, of Theodor Hertzl’s
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Russia Remains Iran’s Ally In Spite Of Supporting UN Resolution
(August
6, 2006) - Iran’s top nuclear negotiator said Sunday the
Islamic Republic will continue developing relations with Russia and
China, despite their supporting a UN Security Council resolution. The
five permanent UN Security Council members, including Russia and
China, voted July 31 in favor of a resolution to set August 31 as a
deadline for Iran to suspend all uranium enrichment activities. If
Iran fails to fulfill the UN’s demands, economic and diplomatic
sanctions may be imposed on the Islamic Republic. Ali Larijani said
Iran had long-term relations with Russia and China and friends could
not be judged on the basis of one action only. Iran’s nuclear program
has been a source of major controversy since the beginning of the
year, as many countries suspect the Islamic Republic of pursuing a
covert weapons program under the pretext of civilian research, despite
its claims to the contrary. more... |
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news stories confirming this over and over and over.
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Iran's smuggling of uranium from African mine uncovered (August
6, 2006) - Tanzanian customs officials have uncovered an
Iranian smuggling operation transporting large quantities of
bomb-making uranium from the same mines in the Congo that provided the
nuclear material for the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima sixty-one
years ago today, reports the London Sunday Times. A United Nations
report, outlining the interception last October, said there is "no
doubt" the smuggled uranium-238 came from mines in the Democratic
Republic of the Congo's mineral-rich Katanga province. The Shinkolobwe
uranium mine was officially closed and its main shafts covered with
concrete in 1961, before the country became independent from Belgium,
but U.N. investigators have reported evidence of ongoing mining
operations.
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Every nation has the right to nuclear bombs... I.. I mean power.
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Hezbollah Iran Missiles Slam Hadera Israel - Nuclear War Approaching?
(August 5, 2006) - The only good
thing about the terror group Hezbollah (Hizbollah) or Islam Party of
God is that they keep their promises. Just two days ago Hezbollah
terror leader Hassan Nasrallah said from Lebanon that he would strike
Tel Aviv, Israel with missiles if the Israel Defense Forces attacked
parts of central Beirut. A few hours ago, Hezbollah launched three
Iran missiles at the Israel city of Hadera. Hadera is 70 miles south
from the Lebanese border and 30 miles north from Tel Aviv. The strike
was the deepest inside Israel to date in the fighting between the
Jewish state and the Lebanon-based terrorists. Hezbollah is believed
to have missiles that can reach Tel Aviv, but such an attack would
trigger a massive Israel response. One that would most likely include
Syria and Iran. Iran admitted today that it did indeed supply
long-range Zelzal-2 missiles to Hizbullah. The longer-range Zelzal
missiles, manufactured by Iran and are capable of reaching Tel Aviv,
Jerusalem and Beer Sheva in the Negev. In making this announcement,
Iran reinforced its statement of "wiping Israel off the map" and
though bullets are not flying yet between Israel and Iran, both
nations are very much at war. more...
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Iran: We supplied Zelzal-2 to Hizbullah
(August 5, 2006) - Iran admitted
for the first time on Friday that it did indeed supply long-range
Zelzal-2 missiles to Hizbullah. Secretary-general of the "Intifada
conference" Mohtashami Pur told an Iranian newspaper that Iran
transferred the missiles so that they could be used to defend Lebanon,
Channel 1 reported. The extent of Iran's intimate involvement in
Hizbullah attacks is starting to emerge. According to the defense
establishment, the reason Hizbullah has not fired long-range
Iranian-made Fajr missiles at Israel is due to Teheran's opposition.
Israel now understands that without direct orders from the ayatollahs,
Hizbullah is not allowed to use Iranian missiles in attacks against
Israel. more...
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At least their honest. What amazes me is that even with their blunt
honesty, nobody does anything about it. They must really think they
have us where they want us. I really believe they may too. Especially
considering where Bible prophecy tells us the world's going.
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| Is Hezbollah launching Iran's Armageddon? (August 4, 2006) - It's common wisdom to say that the war between Hezbollah and Israel is a regional struggle that also includes Iran and Syria, who have supported and supplied Hezbollah. What seems to be less understood is that this is the first war between the Islamic Republic of Iran and Israel, via Iran's proxy Hezbollah, and that its overarching purpose is to advance Iran's ambitions to export the Islamic revolution throughout the Middle East. Thus, while religion has always played an important role in prior Arab-Israeli wars, this time it has moved to center stage. It is the theological aspect of this conflict that makes it so explosive and could lead to its expansion. As an observer of the conflict from Iraq, I see the signs that Iran may be starting to launch the mullahs' version of an Armageddon, exploiting the religious beliefs of devout Shiites in the region. While this may sound more the stuff of prophecies than international relations, it is important to understand - especially in countries such as Lebanon and Iraq that have large Shiite populations. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in Iran and the Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr in Iraq are both devout believers in the "Imam" of Shia Islam. Also known as "Imam Mehdi" - hence the name of Sadr's militia, the Mehdi Army - he was the 12th grandson of the Prophet Muhammad. According to certain branches of Shia Islam, the return of the "hidden Imam" must be prepared by his followers, in a particular sequence of events. Chaos and rampant violence in the region are supposed to be among signs leading to the main battle in which the Imam will return to lead Shiites to victory. more... | Iran | Islam | NewWorldOrder | I don't know what else to add here. Islam is clearly becoming exactly the kind of vehicle that the antichrist can use to control the world. Beheading is the Muslim preferred method of execution and the Bible says that many will be beheaded for their witness of Jesus. Fortunately, Christians have a promise of escape through Christ! | |
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Syrian
Reporter: In Syria There Is Atmosphere Of Eve Of War
(July
28, 2006) - Exclusive: In conversation in Damascus, senior Syrian
journalist tells about sentiments in Syria ('as if there will be war any
moment'); talks about military preparations in his country ('identifying your
reinforcements in Golan Heights'); and estimates that Israeli pounding in
Lebanon to intensify grassroots support of Nasrallah and his organization.
Also in Syria, he says, Nasrallah more popular than ever -Ali Waked As the conflict with Hizbullah in Lebanon escalates by the day, the question of Syria's involvement in the conflict becomes increasingly more relevant. "The atmosphere in Syria is in every way an atmosphere of war, or at least of the eve of war. Syrian television for the first time since the '80's has started broadcasting Syrian military marches and nationalistic songs. There is not difference between Syrian television broadcasts and Al-Manar broadcasts of the Hizbullah. The broadcasts are in preparation for war, as if Syria is involved in this war, or is going to be involved at any moment. The local newspapers and the television are conducting themselves as if they are preparing the Syrian public for war." more... | Iran | Gog/Magog | Israel | Islam | It's only getting more intense over there. Either an amazing temporary and false peace deal will break out and the temple will be rebuilt, or greater war in the Middle East will erupt. Given the stories, it's looking more like war. Is this the beginning of Gog/Magog? We'll soon see! Keep watching! | |
| Iran Negotiator Reportedly In Syria Talks (July 28, 2006) - A top Iranian negotiator reportedly visited Damascus on Thursday for talks on the Lebanese crisis with the Syrian and Hezbollah leaders, highlighting the three-way alliance arrayed against Israel. The reported meeting underscored the Israeli and U.S. insistence that Syria and Iran have a powerful influence with the Shiite Hezbollah organization and its guerrillas. White House spokesman Tony Snow said Syria and Iran "are playing leading roles" in the conflict in Lebanon "and need to step up" to the task of finding a solution. "We have already made it clear to both parties what is necessary, and what is necessary is for Hezbollah to lay down arms and choose a political rather than a military track," he said Thursday. Snow's remarks reinforced those of Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice after the Syrians held out their diplomatic hand to the United States this week. But Rice said there already were sufficient contacts with Damascus and the Syrians were aware of what they need to do _ stop supporting Hezbollah and press it to disarm. more... | Iran | Gog/Magog | Israel | Islam | They don't really care how obvious they're being. This is what they want. | |
| Ahmadinejad: Israel Pushed Self-Destruct Button In Lebanon (July 28, 2006) - Israel has ordained its own destruction by invading Lebanon, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Thursday, according to the state news agency. Addressing the clerical staff of the Friday prayer sermons in Tehran, Ahmadinejad said Israel and its supporters "should know that they cannot end the business that they have begun." "The occupying regime of Palestine has actually pushed the button of its own destruction by launching a new round of invasion and barbaric onslaught on Lebanon," the official Islamic Republic News Agency quoted the president as saying. Iran is one of the two major patrons of Hezbollah, the Lebanese guerrilla group that began the current fighting when its fighters crossed into Israel on July 12 and kidnapped two Israel Defense Forces soldiers. The other patron is Syria, an Iranian ally. Ahmadinejad is a hardline opponent of Israel and the Jewish people. Last October he provoked an international outcry when he said that Israel should be "wiped off the map." He has repeatedly cast doubt on the Nazi Holocaust. more... | Iran | Gog/Magog | Israel | Islam | | |
| Syria Increases Alert Of War With Israel (July 27, 2006) - Syria has been preparing for war with Israel. Israeli intelligence sources said the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad has placed the military on alert. The sources said Syrian infantry commandos, armored units and anti-aircraft batteries have been ordered to launch preparations for an Israeli strike. "Neither Syria nor Israel is interested in a military clash but the situation is explosive and the events may potentially be incorrectly interpreted," Israeli military intelligence chief Maj. Gen. Amos Yadlin told the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee on Tuesday. "This could entangle Syria up in a battle against us." Last week, Syrian President Bashar Assad placed his military on alert for an Israeli strike. Israel has repeatedly said it would not attack Syria. | Iran | Gog/Magog | Israel | Islam | Keep your eye on Damascus. | |
| Iran testing Israel ahead of confrontation? (July 27, 2006) - Tehran is using Hezbollah's confrontation with the Jewish state to test the abilities of Iranian weapons and to observe Israeli military capabilities, Lebanon's Druze leader Walid Jumblatt charged in a WorldNetDaily interview yesterday. Jumblatt also said he fears Syria will take advantage of the growing crisis in Lebanon to reassert its influence in the country and convince the international community Syrian domination of Lebanon is crucial to the stability of the Middle East. He warned Damascus might initiate a wave of terror in Lebanon following Israel's military campaign there to further destabilize the country, including by assassinating the Lebanese prime minister. "Iran is bringing in [to Lebanon] sophisticated weaponry," said Jumblatt who is head of Lebanon's Progressive Socialist Party and is largely considered the most prominent anti-Syrian Lebanese politician. "The Iranians are actually experimenting with different kinds of missiles in Lebanon by shooting them at the Israelis. Iran is using this violence to test certain of [Israel's] abilities," Iran is accused of supplying Hezbollah was thousands of rockets the terror group has launched the past three weeks into northern Israeli population centers, including Haifa, the country's third largest city. Many of the fired rockets have been Katyushas he says were upgraded by Iran. Hezbollah is also in possession of Iranian Zalzel missiles, with a range of about 125 miles, making Tel Aviv vulnerable. more... | Iran | Gog/Magog | Israel | Islam | I have no doubt that Iran is gauging Israel right now. Prophetically, Iran will attack Israel and certainly has stated the desire for that in the future publicly. | |
| Syria's Military Flatters to Deceive (July 27, 2006) - While it is still largely true that the Syrian military remains one of the largest and best-trained forces in the Arab world, it has significantly lost every major conflict with Israel since 1948. Its combat strength has deteriorated dramatically over the past 15 years as its equipment has become increasingly obsolescent, poorly maintained and short of spare parts. The collapse of the Soviet Union created immense problems of re-supply for the Syrians, and the slowdown experienced by the Syrian economy resulted in a further downgrading of the military's combat efficiency. This said, the recent military cooperation agreement signed with Iran has offered Damascus a much-needed opportunity to update and re-equip large parts of its armed forces. Spare parts for its Russian weapons, improved electronics and new Iranian-made missile systems will provide a considerable strengthening of combat capability and a possible improvement in morale. more... | Iran | Gog/Magog | Israel | Islam | | |
| Report: Nasrallah is in Damascus (July 27, 2006) - A top Iranian envoy was in Syria on Thursday for talks on the Israeli-Hizbullah conflict in a meeting that brought together the guerrilla organization's two key sponsors, according to Iranian news reports. A Kuwaiti newspaper reported that Hizbullah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah was taking part in the session. Kuwait's Al-Siyassah newspaper, known for its opposition to the Syrian regime, said the meeting was designed to discuss ways to maintain supplies to Hezbollah fighters with "Iranian arms flowing through Syrian territories." Al-Siyassah said it learned of the meeting from "well-informed Syrian sources" it did not identify. According to the newspaper, Nasrallah was moving through Damascus with Syrian guards in an intelligence agency car. He was dressed in civilian clothes, not his normal clerical garb. The Mehr news agency in Iran said Ali Larijani, secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, was in Damascus for meetings on the crisis, but gave no other details. Similar reports were carried by the Iranian Labor News Agency and the Fars agency. Al-Siyassah said Larijani would meet Syrian President Hafez Assad and Nasrallah. There was no mention of Larijani's travels in Iranian state-run media. None of the reports could be independently confirmed. more... | Iran | Gog/Magog | Israel | Islam | Anyone still think Iran's not involved? | |
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Iran Warns the West: Ignore Us At Your Peril (July
26, 2006) - Iran warned the west yesterday that
attempts to broker a Lebanon peace deal at today's Rome summit are
destined to fail and it predicted a backlash across the Muslim world
unless Israel's military forces were immediately reined in. Senior
government officials said the exclusion from the summit of Iran, Syria
and their Lebanese ally Hizbullah meant that no lasting settlement was
possible. Hamid Reza Asefi, the foreign ministry spokesman in Tehran,
said: "They should have invited all the countries of the region,
including Syria and Iran, if they want peace. How can you tackle these
important issues without having representatives of all countries in
the region?" The Rome conference is to be attended by the US, Canada,
Britain, France, Spain, Germany, Turkey, Russia, Lebanon, Saudi
Arabia, Egypt and Jordan, as well as the UN and the World Bank. It is
due to publish a statement setting out the broad outlines of a
possible deal, including the injection of a muscular international
stabilisation force which Hizbullah rejected yesterday. But the mood
in Rome was soured last night when an Israeli air strike hit a UN
monitoring post in south Lebanon, killing four UN peacekeepers from
Austria, Canada, China and Finland. Kofi Annan, the UN secretary
general, immediately demanded that Israel investigate the direct hit
that he said was "apparently deliberate".
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I noted in the news a couple issues ago
about the promised retaliation against America and the fears of WMDs
already in America. It isn't looking good and political correctness
will probably end up our undoing.
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Suicide Armies Launched (July
24, 2006) - Teams
of Iranian suicide bombers were heading for Lebanon’s war zone last
night in a terrifying bid to spark meltdown in the Middle East.
Twenty-seven martyrdom-seekers have been sent to Syria on their way to
front line positions. The mad fanatics, belonging to the Iranian
Martyrs of Islam World Movement, have been training for months to
wreak maximum havoc on military and soft civilian targets. Their aim
is to spark terror which will detonate all-out war and suck Western
nations into a final bloody showdown. A spokesman for the martyrs
group said yesterday: “Two teams of 18 and nine have gone to Syria
separately. “They have been deployed on a voluntary basis in order to
get to the areas of conflict in any way they can.” The man, named only
as Mohammadi, claimed the 27 were picked from 55,000 who registered in
Iran. They were briefed and have completed the “relevant courses” so
that they could perform both military services and helping the
wounded. Mohammadi added: “If Israel would decide to occupy Lebanon
again, they will carry out martyrdom-seeking operations.”
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War between Iran, Israel inevitable (July 24, 2006) - With the decision to destroy Hezbollah by military force, the Israelis are playing for a fundamental power alignment in the Middle East. More than just a regional conflict with a local terrorist organization, Israel's fight continues to be about survival. Yesterday, Iran's President Ahmadinejad declared that by attacking Lebanon, Israel had pushed the button of their destruction. ''I advise them [the Israelis] to pack up and move out of the region before being caught in the fire they have started in Lebanon,'' Ahmadinejad told the state news agency IRNA. ''The usurper Zionists thought attack on Lebanon would create a new atmosphere for them in the region,'' Ahmadinejad charged. ''They [the Zionists] have committed a big mistake.'' Since Israel pulled out of Lebanon in 2001, Hezbollah has boasted of its ability to destroy the Jewish state. Now, should Israel succeed in crushing Hezbollah with military force, Syria and Iran face the prospect of a major political setback in the world of radical Islam. more... | Iran | Gog/Magog | Israel | Islam | | |
| UNCOVERED: RUSSIAN-SYRIAN-IRANIAN AXIS (July 24, 2006) - For students of Bible prophecy, even the title of this communiqué should set off alarm sirens. I just received some electrifying intelligence data. First, from the Debka-Net-Weekly's briefing. And second, from some personal intelligence sources (I carefully guard) that confirm Debka's report. Russia, Iran and Syria have entered a defense pact that is in the process of altering the balance of power in the entire Middle East. Russia's part in the pact has been kept relatively secret for a long time. But the facts reveal a long steady Russian commitment to the Iranian nuclear program and arms supply to Syria. A Mossad General shared with me in confidence that he had personally traced the hiring and importation to Iran 283 of the defunct Soviet Union's top nuclear and missile scientists. This meeting took place in February of 1991. I shared this information with no one until nine months later when it was first made public (although strangely not followed up by the mainstream media). All Russian leaders continued and expanded this agreement to this day, especially our supposed friend, Vladimir Putin. Russia has helped the Iranian nuclear program from its inception. Hundreds of Russian scientists with their families live around the some twenty scattered nuclear related facilities. Russian 'Spetznaz soldiers' (special forces) guard all the key nuclear facilities. Iran has had some help on missile development from the North Koreans. But even their missiles are based upon Russian designs. The unmistakable culprit in China, North Korea and Iran's nuclear development has been the Soviet Union and continued by Russia. The Soviet Union's motivation for helping China and North Korea was primarily ideological. Russia's primary reason is hard cash, although now, it is taking on a strategic importance as well. So here are the disturbing hard facts about what is taking place in what can only be viewed as a dangerous anti-western strategy in the form of a Russian-Syrian-Iranian Axis. more... | Iran | Gog/Magog | Israel | Islam | The alliances have been there, evident by the actions of these nations. Iran has had no issues with publicly saying what their plans are because they believe their religious books declare them the winners and they feel this time is coming soon. The master of deception is very crafty. This is the alliance that attacks Israel but is destroyed in the mountains of Israel. The question is, are we at that point in history when it happens, or are we still just seeing the alliances form? Given the war raging in Lebanon between Israel and the terrorists, and the support offered to the terrorists by Syria and Iran, I see it happening sooner rather than later. That's just an educated guess though. Keep watching! | |
| Iran's Ahmadinejad: Israel's Destruction at Hand (July 23, 2006) - "Israel has pushed the button of its own destruction," said the Iranian president, who pulls the strings of its terrorist proxies on both of Israel's fronts. "The Zionists made their worst decision and triggered their extinction by attacking Lebanon." Ahmadinejad, addressing the 23rd Iranian Islamic Republic's nationwide meeting of the heads of educational bureaus, advised Jewish Israelis "to pack up and move out of the region before being caught in the fire they have started in Lebanon." Last week, Ahmadinejad was shown on Iranian television saying Israelis "Should know that the volcano of rage of the peoples of the region is boiling...I'm telling you...If this volcano erupts - and we are on the brink of eruption... and if this ocean rages, its waves will not be limited to the region. Ahmadinejad, seemingly responding to the first two planeloads of American Jews making Aliyah (immigrating to Israel) this summer, accused Israel of deceiving the olim. "They are even lying to the misfortunate people whom they have imported into occupied Palestine," he said. "They are using them as a shield to achieve their own goals." more... | Iran | Gog/Magog | Israel | Islam | I suppose his own words don't mean anything because there are still those trying to appease and work out political deals. Does he sound like he's going for any of that? Well, he's talking the same genocidal talk he was months ago, only now he's promising the fulfillment of it soon. Hello world, wake up! | |
| Sleeper Hizbullah cells activated (July 23, 2006) - Hizbullah "sleeper" terror cells set up outside Lebanon with Iranian assistance have been put on standby The Jerusalem Post learned on Sunday, and are likely planning attacks against Jewish and Israeli targets throughout the world. The Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) confirmed to the Post Sunday night that it had instructed embassies, consulates and Jewish institutions it was responsible for abroad to raise their level of awareness in light of the conflict in the North. The assumption within Military Intelligence is that Hizbullah would only attack targets abroad if it felt pushed into a corner. According to this thinking, the Islamist group hesitates to carry out such attacks because it does not want to be associated with Global Jihad and al-Qaida. more... | Iran | Islam | They're already here. I heard and recorded a clip from Savage Nation on July 20, where he interviewed Debbie Schlessel. I don't have web space to provide it here. Sorry about that. Anyways, she has been going to mosques in the Detroit area and is sounding the warning bells. There are also active training camps in America training Muslims in combat. Remember the three beheaded border guards? It's a lot closer to home than many want to believe. | |
| Iran planning to strike Israel? (July 22, 2006) - Tehran ordered the current Hizb'allah rocket assault on Israel in order to swamp Israeli defenses and open the door for an Iranian missile strike on Israel's population centers, wrote a group of Iranian exiles in a full-page ad published in Wednesday's Washington Times. The Azadegan Foundation, led by former Iranian diplomat Assad Homayoun, warned that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad intends to use weapons of mass destruction against the Jewish state. "We have know for some four years that Iran's clerical leadership has, mostly through Syria and with active participation from Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, been pouring thousands of Zalzal-2 and Fajr rockets and missiles into HizbAllah and Iranian Revolutionary Guard (Pasdaran) units in Lebanon's Beqa'a Valley, for use against Israel. "Now they are being used. And, clearly, this is only the beginning. They are the mass barrages meant to swamp regional defenses so that Iran's strategic Shahab-3 ballistic missiles and other weapons can deliver WMD against Israel and other targets in the region." Adding to the growing sense of concern is the fact that Ahmadinejad earlier this week announced to Muslims throughout the region that a great day of "rejoicing" would soon be upon them. If Iran's aim is to divert Israel's missile defense systems away from its densely populated central regions, it appears to be working. World Tribune reported Wednesday that Israel is "urgently pooling its missile defense assets to defend against" the Hizb'allah threat in the north. more... | Iran | Gog/Magog | Israel | Islam | This is straight Bible prophecy, the Gog/Magog invasion. So it wouldn't surprise me in the least. It will surprise them though! Ezekiel 38:18-23 | |
| Hezbollah Nourished by Iran, Syria Roots (July 22, 2006) - The Hezbollah military machine that has been attacking Israel draws much of its strength from two shadowy sources that are proving difficult to cut off: Syria and Iran. The two countries, which President Bush blames for fomenting terrorism and destabilizing the Middle East, provide Hezbollah with training, weapons and financing, according to Western intelligence officials who are working to stem the flow of aid. Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Mich., a House Intelligence Committee member who was briefed on the Middle East situation during a recent trip to Iraq, said Syria has more than 1,000 agents in southern Lebanon, working either directly for Syrian intelligence or compensated by Syria for information. He says they are there "to cause trouble" and help prop up Hezbollah militarily. more... | Iran | Gog/Magog | Israel | Islam | Again, here's some more background as to what's really going on in the Middle East. What the mainstream media seems blind to. | |
| Hundreds of Iranian Troops Fighting in Lebanon (July 19, 2006) - Hundreds of Iranian Revolutionary Guard personnel are on the ground in Lebanon fighting Israel, security sources say. "I have no doubt whatsoever that they are there and operating some of the equipment," an Arab diplomatic source told The New York Sun yesterday. Another foreign source, based in Washington, said the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps contingent in Lebanon is based in Beirut and in the Bekaa Valley. He said the troops usually number a few dozen, but that the size of the force increased in connection with the hostilities that have broken out between Israel and Iran's proxy, Hezbollah, over the past week. The sources said the Iranians had directly operated a radar-guided C–802 missile that Iran acquired from Communist China and that hit an Israeli navy missile boat off the coast of Lebanon on Friday, killing four Israeli seamen. "This was a direct message to the Israelis that we are fighting the Iranians here," the Arab diplomatic source said. The Iranian Revolutionary Guard's mission in Lebanon includes keeping custody of Zalzal missiles and drones, or unmanned aerial vehicles. A report by an Israel-based research group, the Intelligence & Terrorism Information Center, identifies the units of Iran's Revolutionary Guard "deployed and active in Lebanon" as the "Al-Quds Force." The Lebanon-based Iranian force "provides military guidance and support for terrorist attacks against Israel," the report says. more... | Iran | Gog/Magog | Israel | Islam | | |
| Iran Official: No Part Of Israel Safe (July 19, 2006) - The speaker of Iran's parliament warned Israelis on Tuesday that no part of their country is safe from Hezbollah attack. The comments by Speaker Gholam Ali Haddad Adel called into question Tehran's official position that it is not involved in the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon. "The towns you have built in northern Palestine (Israel) are within the range of the brave Lebanese children. No part of Israel will be safe," Haddad Adel told thousands of anti-Israel demonstrators in Palestine Square. Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki indicated that Iran may be playing a covert role in the fighting when he said Monday that a cease-fire was feasible. He spoke after talks with the Syrian government in Damascus. Iran and its ally Syria are the principal backers of Hezbollah, the Lebanese militant group that provoked the current fighting when its guerrillas seized two Israeli soldiers last week. On Monday, Israeli military officials said their planes had destroyed a long-range missile in Lebanon, named "Zelzal," that Hezbollah had received from Iran. more... | Iran | Gog/Magog | Israel | Islam | They even say it, yet countries the world over are denouncing Israel for defending herself. The Bible says that in the end they will call good bad and bad good. These people are 180 degrees out of phase with reality. | |
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We Soon Shall See
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2006) - How many time have you heard it was
wrong to let current events interpreter Bible prophecy? The next thing
you know, the person making that statement does exactly that. How? By
looking at the situation that they think they see in the world, instead
of looking at the prophecies that may have been fulfilled. In fact,
that's one reason I believe so many of today's end-time ministries may
be so far behind the curve as to what's actually going on both
politically and prophetically. The current crisis in the Middle East is
an example. If you only listen to the news reports and the statements
coming from our world's leaders, you may think we still have a ways to
go before the final prophecies can be fulfilled. However, it you look at
the prophecies that may have already been fulfilled, the whole picture
suddenly changes. The final events of history may already be in sight.
It's amazing how just a little piece of wrong information can have such
a large blinding effect. Take for example our interpretation of who the
little horn is in Daniel chapter eight. If we believe it's referring to
the coming Antichrist, we may be expecting to see a 10 nation alliance
appear in the Eastern leg of the old Roman Empire. If , however, we
believe as I do -- that chapter eight of Daniel is referring to the
Greek kingdom and the rise of Antiochus Epipanes, we may be open to the
idea that the 10 nation alliance could appear in Western Europe. And,
you will naturally take special notice of the 10-nation Western European
Union. Here's my point: No matter how we believe about Bible prophecy, we may have already been witness to seven possible fulfillments out of ten that were foretold. We have seen: |
- the rebirth of Israel (1), Ezekiel 36
- the revival of the old Roman Empire (2),
- the appearance of a 10 nation alliance (3),
- the appearance of a Mr. Europe (4),
- who's Office and authority is identified with 666 (5),
- who negotiated a covenant with many (6)
- that, beginning on January 1, 2007, he plans on confirming for a period of seven-years (7).
What are the three prophecies yet remaining? If we've seen the fulfillment of the first seven, we should expect to see:
- three kings from out of the 10 nation alliance somehow subdued (8),
- and, sometime around 2010, we should see Mr. Europe stepping in and putting a stop to Israel's Temple scarifies and offerings (9).
- And, after Mr. Europe and the 10 nations wage a short campaign against God's people, we should expect to see our Lord stepping in and putting an end to the world's madness.
So, am I allowing current events to interpret the prophecies? Or, am I allowing the prophecies to interpret current events. We soon shall see Read about it here I And here. Are you ready? | Iran | Gog/Magog | Israel | Islam | EU/UN | I can't stress the importance of understanding how close we are to the fulfillment of many Bible prophecies. It's time to wake up!
- Iranian President Ahmadinejad: Day of happiness for region near (July 18, 2006) - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Tuesday, “The day of happiness for the region is near… The world is on the verge of great changes,” according to the Iranian news agency. Ahmadinejad added that he considered Israel’s operation in Lebanon “a type of playing with fire.” | Iran | Gog/Magog | Israel | Islam | Does he know something about plans that will soon come to pass which will bring about his goal of wiping out Israel? Given the current situation and his declarations, that would seem to be what would supply this happiness. Of course we know that Israel will be safe until the abomination of desolation, and that requires the Jewish temple first. 2 Thessalonians 2:1-5 | Revelation 11:1,2
| Iran, not Hezbollah, is True Enemy (July 17, 2006) - Iran is at the center of the emerging war between the terrorist organizations Hezbollah and Hamas against Israel. Far from being a typical or recurrent Middle East crisis, this shooting war risks the future of Israel's survival as a nation, as well as the security of a continuing U.S. presence in the region. Through its dual surrogate terrorist organizations of Hezbollah and Hamas, Iran has begun its war to destroy Israel and to remove the U.S. from the Middle East. As I noted in writing ''Atomic Iran,'' Hezbollah traces its roots to Najaf in Iraq. Najaf is an important site for Shiite Islam. Here is buried the Imam Ali, whom Shi'ites consider the first convert of Muhammad and the rightful successor to the Prophet. Ayatollah Muhammed Hussein Fadlallah, the spiritual leader of Hezbollah, studied in Najaf when he was in exile from Lebanon. There he met Ayatollah Khomeini, who was also in exile, from the Shahs Iran. Even today, Iran continues to fund Hezbollah, to the tune of some $250 million a year. There are conflicting reports as to whether a drone equipped with a bomb or a C-802 cruise missile hit the Israeli missile ship off the coast of Lebanon. Either way, the evidence points to Iran. The C-802 cruise missile is today an Iranian-made weapon, built on the design of Chinese cruise missiles that Iran bought from China during the Clinton administration. Beginning in December 2005, Iran launched a series of war games in an attempt to demonstrate the country's military prowess, signaling to the world a willingness to resist military steps that might be taken against the nation's nuclear program. In March and April 2006, Iran's Revolutionary Guard carried out their own military exercises, demonstrating their experimentation with several Iranian-improvised weapons, including drone-type devices similar to those the first reports attributed to damaging the Israeli missile ship. Iran has reportedly supplied Hezbollah with long-range missiles. more... | Iran | Gog/Magog | Israel | Islam | | |
| Iran's Hizbollah Says Ready To Attack US, Israel (July 17, 2006) - Iran's Hizbollah, which claims links to the Lebanese group of the same name, said on Tuesday it stood ready to attack Israeli and U.S. interests worldwide. "We have 2,000 volunteers who have registered since last year," said Iranian Hizbollah's spokesman Mojtaba Bigdeli, speaking by telephone from the central seminary city of Qom. "They have been trained and they can become fully armed. We are ready to dispatch them to every corner of the world to jeopardise Israel and America's interests. We are only waiting for the Supreme Leader's green light to take action. If America wants to ignite World War Three ... we welcome it," he said. Iranian religious organisations have made great public show of recruiting volunteers for "martyrdom-seeking operations" in recent years, usually threatening U.S. interests in case of any attack against the Islamic Republic's nuclear programme. But there is no record of an Iranian volunteer from these recruitment campaigns taking part in an attack. more... | Iran | Israel | Islam | America | | |
| Iran leader Ali Khameini declares Sunday: Hizbullah will never be disarmed (July 16, 2006) - DEBKAfile: This was Iran’s first direct guarantee of support for the embattled Lebanese Shiite group since hostilities were launched Wednesday, July 12. It is interpreted as a promise of weapons and, if necessary, fighting men to avert a Hizbullah defeat. DEBKAfile’s counter-terror sources see also a message addressed to the Olmert government that Israel will not achieve its objectives in Lebanon or succeed in dictating new rules. Earlier, Tehran threatened Israel against attacking Syria. An Iranian spokesman said Sunday: “We are standing by the Syrian people. Israel faces “unimaginable losses”. Hizbullah was not mentioned. The Syrian government promised “a firm, direct and unlimited response to any attack by Israel.” Israeli spokesmen have reiterated that Syria is not targeted for attack but accused Iran of helping Hizbullah attack the Israeli missile boat Friday. more... | Iran | Gog/Magog | Israel | Islam | |
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Iran Heaps Praise On Hezbollah Fight Against 'Tumour' Israel
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16, 2006) - Iran has rallied behind
allies Hezbollah and Syria, praising the Lebanese Shiite militant
movement's battle against "infected tumour" Israel and warning the
Jewish state against widening the conflict. In a speech carried on
state television Sunday, supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei branded
"Zionists" as "an evil and cancerous being and an infected tumour".
"The Zionists wanted Lebanon to be the meat between their teeth. The
powerful limbs of Hezbollah have prevented the Zionists' dream of
trouble from being realised," Khamenei said. His comments, on the
fifth day of an Israeli onslaught against its northern neighbour
following Hezbollah's capture of two soldiers, prompted chants of
"Hezbollah will win, Israel will be destroyed". Khamenei replied:
"Yes, that is what we say".
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Iran gave Hizbullah 11,500 missiles and rockets
(July
16, 2006) - An Iranian
military source told the Arab daily Asharq Alawsat Sunday that between
1992 and 2005 Iran has transferred some 11,500 missiles and rockets to
Hizbullah. According to the report, Hizbullah has in its arsenal four
types of advanced surface-to-surface missiles. He named the Fajaar
missile, which has a range of 100 kilometers; the Iran 130, which has
a 90-110 km. range; the Shahin, which has a range of up to 150 kms;
and a 355 mm. Rocket with a range of up to 150 kms. more... |
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Syria
Vows Harsh Response If Israel Attacks
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16, 2006) - Syria vowed on
Sunday a "harsh and direct" response if it is attacked by Israel,
showing no sign of bowing to U.S. pressure to abandon support for
Hizbollah. "Any aggression against Syria will have a firm and direct
response not limited in time or means," Information Minister Mohsen
Bilal said in a statement. "The resistance (Hizbollah) will win and
the Israeli aggression will fail," Bilal said. "The resistance has hit
deep inside Israel and the enemy did not expect this." Syria is a main
backer of Hizbollah, whose fighters captured Israeli soldiers in a
cross-border operation on Wednesday, sparking Israeli reprisals that
have so far killed more than 100 civilians in Lebanon. The United
States, Israel's chief ally, has said Syria must lean on Hizbollah to
release the two soldiers and stop fighting. more... |
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Iran Warns Israel Of 'Unimaginable Losses' If Syria Hit
(July
16, 2006) - Iran warned its
arch-enemy Israel of "unimaginable losses" if it attacks Syria and
vowed that it was standing by the Syrian people. "We hope the Zionist
regime does not make the mistake of attacking Syria, because extending
the front would definitely make the Zionist regime face unimaginable
losses," foreign ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi told reporters.
"Iran is standing by the Syrian people," he said of the Islamic
republic's sole regional ally. "We have offered and will offer Syria
and Lebanon spiritual and humanitarian support," Asefi insisted,
reiterating Iran's denial that it is providing military and financial
assistance to the Hezbollah movement. The Israeli army has said
Hezbollah militants had used an Iranian-built radar-guided anti-ship
missile in an attack on Friday on an Israeli warship off Lebanon's
coast. The attack marked the Lebanese militia's first successful
strike on an Israeli warship, dealing an unprecedented blow to the
Jewish state's military. One Israeli sailor was killed and three more
were missing, feared dead. An Israeli military intelligence official
has also alleged that around 100 members of Iran's powerful
ideological army the elite Revolutionary Guards were in Lebanon,
acting as military advisors to Hezbollah. more... |
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Since Iran (Persia) is one of the main nations mentioned by name in
the Gog/Magog invasion and they have a defense agreement with Syria,
I'm not too surprised that they say this. It will be a great blow to
their pride when it fails. I imagine that helps give the hatred teeth
at the abomination of desolation when they are loosed to kill 2/3 of
Israel.
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Syria says fully backs Hizbullah against Israel
(July
15, 2006) - Syria will
support Hizbullah and Lebanon against Israel's attacks on the country,
the ruling Baath Party said on Friday, defying Israel and its chief
ally Washington. "The Syrian people are ready to extend full support
to the Lebanese people and their heroic resistance to remain steadfast
and confront the barbaric Israeli aggression and its crimes," said a
communique from the party's national command issued after a meeting.
It said Israel and the United States "are trying to wipe out Arab
resistance in every land under occupation" and that President Bashar
al-Assad was aware of the seriousness of the situation in the region.
The national command is the highest echelon of the Baath Party, which
has been in power since 1963. Assad, who is shaped by his late
father's lifetime of struggle with Israel, was not at the meeting. He
has resisted Israeli and American pressure to abandon support for
Hizbullah. more... |
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Israel: ‘Concrete Evidence’ of Hizbullah Plan to Transfer IDF Captives
to Iran (July
14, 2006) - Israeli
intelligence has “concrete evidence that Hizbullah plans to transfer
the kidnapped soldiers to Iran,” said Foreign Ministry spokesman Mark
Regev. Deputy Director General of the Foreign Ministry, Gideon Meir,
pointed out that Syria and Iran were major players in the military
attacks by Hamas and Hizbullah in the south and north of Israel. “As a
result, Israel views Hamas, Hizbullah, Syria and Iran as the main
players in the axis of terror and hate that endangers not only Israel
but the entire world,” he said. The IDF soldiers kidnapped in the
initial attack in the north, 31 year old Ehud Goldwasser of Nahariya
and 26 year old Eldad Regev of Kiryat Motzkin were alive when they
were captured, according to a news correspondent for Arabic news
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Iran, Syria Used Hizballah As Proxy To Attack Israel, Analysts Say
(July
13, 2006) - The Israeli
government said it is holding the government of Lebanon responsible
for attacks along its northern border, but Israeli analysts and
government sources said that Iran and Syria are ultimately behind the
attack. Israel bombed sites in Lebanon on Thursday and Hizballah
launched dozens of Katyusha rockets at northern Israeli communities,
killing at least two Israeli women and forcing residents into bomb
shelters. This comes one day after Hizballah carried out a
cross-border attack, killing eight Israeli soldiers and abducting
twoothers. Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert called the Hizballah
attack an "act of war." But Israeli officials also said the
fingerprints of Iran and Syria are all over the attack and analysts
have said the timing was not a coincidence. "It's not coincidental
that we had these two attacks and they're pretty much coordinated --
in the south with Hamas and with Hizballah in the north," Israel's
ambassador to the U.S. Daniel Ayalon said in a Fox News interview on
Thursday. Both groups are supported by Teheran and Damascus, Ayalon
noted. more... |
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| Axis of Evil Survivors Play By the Same Book (July 9, 2006) - Hours after North Korea defiantly shot seven missiles into the sea last week, Iran said it was postponing talks in Brussels on its nuclear program for fear of hit squads. Rewind to January. Tehran announced it would resume uranium enrichment, ripping up a previous deal, just two months after Pyongyang suspended negotiations on its own nuclear program. North Korea and Iran, the two survivors of the "axis of evil" denounced by US President George W. Bush in 2002, have turned cycles of delays and provocations into a diplomatic art form. Whether the far-flung countries have coordinated their approach is a matter of dispute, but both are determined to avoid the fate of the other nation in Bush's "axis of evil" -- Saddam Hussein's Iraq. "As fellow members of the 'axis of evil,' the lesson they have learned from the Iraqi experience is to look as lethal as possible to avoid invasion by the US," said Peter Beck, Northeast Asia project director at the International Crisis Group. "At a minimum they are inspired by and learning from each other," he said. "They are coming from the same playbook." more... | Iran | | |
| Iran Rejects Deadline At EU Nuclear Talks (July 11, 2006) - Iran's chief nuclear negotiator rebuffed Western pressure for an immediate answer to an offer of incentives to suspend uranium enrichment ahead of crucial talks with the European Union on Tuesday. The United States, which accuses Tehran of secretly working to build nuclear weapons, has demanded a clear Iranian response before next weekend's summit of Group of Eight industrialized nations in Russia or face possible U.N. Security Council action. But Ali Larijani told reporters before he met EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana for a second round of talks in five days: "We have expressed our view regarding the deadline. We are not used to acting before thinking." Iran has said it will reply in late August to a package of technology, economic and political sweeteners, and an Iranian foreign ministry spokesman suggested its full answer would only emerge later during detailed negotiations on the offer. more... | Iran | EU/UN | |
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Ahmadinejad: Conditions for Removal of Israel Are at Hand (July
9, 2006) - Iranian leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, clearing up any
ambiguity in previous calls to “wipe Israel off the map,” now used an
Arabic word for the removal of body hair to describe his plans for
Israel. “All the conditions for the removal of the Zionist regime are
at hand,” Ahmadinejad told an Arab Conference of Iraqi Neighbors
meeting Saturday. For the first time, he employed the Arabic word
ezaleh, which is used to describe the irreversible removal of body
hairs or a woman’s virginity. “Nations in the region will be more
furious every day. It won’t take long before the wrath of the people
turns into a terrible explosion that will wipe the Zionist entity off
the map,” Ahmadinejad told the foreign ministers of Jordan, Syria,
Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Turkey, Bahrain and Egypt. The heads of the Arab
League and the Islamic Conference were also present, in addition to a
special United Nations representative. None of the foreign ministers
present, including Jordan, Egypt or Turkey – commonly regarded as
Israel’s friends in the Arab/Muslim world - objected to the call for
annihilation. Instead, the following statement was issued: “The Arab
foreign ministers participating in today's Tehran meeting expressed
their strong condemnation of this continuing and increasing aggression
against the Palestinian people." more...
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I don't see the talk decreasing,
instead it seems that all the Gog/Magog players are mentioned here
headed by the President of Persia, Iran. The alliances are all present
and the talk is there too. All that's missing is the action fulfilling
Ezekiel 38,39.
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'Remove' Israel, Iran calls (July 9, 2006) - IRANIAN President Mahmoud Ahmadinejed called on Islamic countries Saturday to mobilize against Israel and "remove" the "Zionist regime". "The basic problem in the Islamic world is the existence of the Zionist regime, and the Islamic world and the region must mobilize to remove this problem," the president said at the opening of a two-day regional conference on security in Iraq. "Today there is a strong will... to remove the Zionist regime and implement a legal Palestinian regime all over Palestine. The continued survival of this regime (Israel) means nothing but suffering for the region," Mr. Ahmadinejad said. "The biggest threat today for the region is the existence of the fake Zionist regime," he added, before going on to attack Israel's supporters. more... | Iran | Gog/Magog | Israel | Islam | It's pretty clear that Ahmadinejad meant what he said about wiping Israel off the map. While they won't ever be wiped off the map, the Bible says that 2/3 of Israel will be killed Zechariah 13:8,9 and talks about what happens to the rest as they are protected for 3 1/2 years. Revelation 12:14
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Iran: IDF Strikes Will Bring Islamic 'Explosion' (July 8, 2006) - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad warned on Friday that continued Israeli strikes against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip could lead to an "explosion" in the Islamic world that would target Israel and its supporters in the West. Again, Ahmadinejad questioned Israel's right to exist. "This is a fake regime ... it won't be able to survive. I think the only way (forward) is that those who created it (the West) take it away themselves," the president told a rally in Teheran in support of Palestinians. | Iran | Gog/Magog | Israel | Islam |
| Iran's President Warns Israel on Continuing Attacks in Gaza (July 7, 2006) - Iran's hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad warned on Friday that continued Israeli strikes against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip could lead to an "explosion" in the Islamic world that would target Israel and its supporters in the West. Again, Ahmadinejad questioned Israel's right to exist. "This is a fake regime ... it won't be able to survive. I think the only way (forward) is that those who created it (the West) take it away themselves," the president told a rally in Tehran in support of Palestinians. Twenty-four Palestinians and one Israeli soldier have been killed in fighting since the Israeli army began invading northern Gaza on Thursday. | Iran | Gog/Magog | Israel | Islam | | |
| Inside Iran: Signs of the Apocalypse (July 7, 2006) - Whether it is his belief that Israel should be wiped off the map, denials of the Holocaust, obsession with going nuclear, or support for radical Islamic terrorist groups, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is a man on a divine mission. To understand him and that mission, you have to travel to a small dusty village called Jamkaran that is tucked into a corner of Iran's holy city of Qom. On a recent Tuesday afternoon, CBN News made that journey, heading south from Iran's capital of Tehran. Some 95 miles and a couple of wrong turns later, we arrived at the Jamkaran mosque on the outskirts of Qom. Behind the Jamkaran mosque, there is a well. And according to many Shiite Muslims, out of this well will one day emerge their version of an Islamic savior. They call him the Mahdi, or the 12th Imam. Ron Cantrell has written a book about him. "The Mahdi is a personage that is expected to come on the scene, by Islam, as a messiah figure. He is slotted to come at the end of time, according to their writings -- very much like how we think of the return of Jesus," said Cantrell. Cantrell said the Mahdi, a descendent of the Prophet Mohammed, vanished in the middle of the 9th century. No one knows what he really looks like. "The 12th Imam disappeared around the age of 9,” said Cantrell, “with a promise that he would return and bring Islam to its total fruition, as the world's last standing religion." Enter Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Since becoming the president of Iran in August 2005, Ahmadinejad has emerged as the Mahdi's most influential follower. “He has stated that his mandate is to pave the way for the coming of this Islamic messiah," Cantrell explained. In almost all his speeches, the president begs Allah to hasten the return of the Mahdi. And apparently, Ahmadinejad has also drawn up plans for the road that the Mahdi will take when he returns. Cantrell said, "...that will actually serve as the red carpet rolled out in Iran for the Mahdi to appear." And if all this wasn't mystical enough, there is also the belief that when the Mahdi comes back, he will be accompanied by Jesus Christ, who is referred to as the prophet Isa. "The Mahdi will take Jesus to Mecca,” Cantrell explained. “They will circumambulate the Kabah together. The Mahdi will teach Jesus to pray, at which time Jesus will then replace the Gospel with the Koran, and then all of us -- as Christians -- wherever you are on the face of the Earth, will convert to Islam because Islam will be deemed the one lasting pure religion." more... | Iran | Israel | Islam | |
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Iran Purchased Long-Range Missiles From Russia (July
3, 2006) -
Russia over the weekend confirmed
reports that a number of years ago, Iran purchased long-range
missiles, in the Ukraine, capable of carrying non-conventional
warheads. The Russian statement released by Foreign Minister Sergey
Lavrov serves to strengthen concerns of Israeli experts monitoring the
Iranian nuclear enrichment program, who fear Tehran is working to
build a nuclear bomb as an option against Israel. The KH-55 long-range
missiles were sold to Iran and China through a Cypriot intermediary.
The missile has a 3,000 kilometer (1,800 mile) range, intended for
deployment by aerial bombers. Officials point out that it remains
uncertain as to the number of bombers still operational in Iran,
adding that most of the fleet was grounded due to a shortage of
replacement parts.
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It seems as
though the alliance is long-standing between two of the nations
prophesied to attack Israel. Now with
Syria-Iran alliances and
Turkey being called in, we're just about to the full axis power of
the
Gog/Magog armies. (Persia
(Iran), Central Asia, Russia, Turkey, Sudan, Libya, and other Islamic
nations.)
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Ahmadinejad: Nuke Program Will Continue
(July 2, 2006)
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Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
said yesterday Tehran will continue its uranium enrichment programme
despite international calls to halt the sensitive project. "The
Iranian government and the people have decided, and without any doubt
with dignity and glory we will pass this phase," he was quoted as
saying from Gambia after explaining Iran's fuel cycle programme, which
has enriching uranium as its focus, to Ivory Coast President Laurent
Gbagbo. Ahmadinejad is in Gambia to address the African Union summit.
Tehran is under mounting pressure from the West to respond by next
week to an international offer that would defuse the nuclear standoff.
World powers gave Iran one more week on Thursday to provide a "clear
and substantive response" to an international proposal on suspending
uranium enrichment, but Tehran immediately rejected the deadline.
Foreign ministers of the G8 group of leading nations said European
Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana and Iran's head nuclear
negotiator Ali Larijani will meet on Wednesday to discuss the plan.
"We expect to hear a clear and substantive Iranian response to these
proposals at the planned meeting," the ministers said in a statement
from Moscow, where they were preparing a July 15-17 summit in Saint
Petersburg.
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Israel
Threatens To Hit Damascus
(July 1, 2006)
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Israel holds Khaled Mashal, the leader
of Hamas' Syrian branch, responsible for the abduction of two Israeli
soldiers and wants Syria to expel Palestinian leaders from the
country. Israel threatened to kill Hamas militants based in Damascus.
Al-Jazeera television said Public Security Minister Avi Dichter
claimed they knew the locations of HAMAS and Islamic Jihad leaders in
Syria and will not hesitate to kill them. Justice Minister Chaim Ramon
said, “The leader of Al Qaeda, Meshal is a terrorist of the worst
kind, and the international community must exert pressure on Syrian
President Bashar al-Assad to expel Meshal from Syria.” Ramon claimed
Meshaal gave the order for abduction and is now a target for
assassination. Syrian security forces said they tightened the security
measures to protect the HAMAS leader. Israeli army said yesterday they
carried out a low-altitude flight over the palace of Syrian President
Bashar Assad in Latakia, in northwestern Syria. Syrian sources
reported that they fired at two Israeli planes flying over Syrian air
space.
more...
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| Quake Hits Iran (June 29, 2006) - An earthquake shook southern Iran early Thursday morning, but there were no immediate reports of casualties or damage. Radio reports said residents of the southwestern city of Bandar Abbas poured into the streets after the quake hit. The U.S. Geological Survey said the quake struck at 1:32 a.m. (local time) and had a magnitude of 5.6. It was centered about 35 miles southwest of Bandar Abbas or about 650 miles southeast of Tehran, the capital. No other details were immediately available. more... | Iran | |
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Talks With US 'of No Use to Iran' (June
27, 2006) - Iran's supreme leader has said talking to
the US about his country's nuclear activities would hold no benefits,
according to Iranian state television. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said
Iran was ready to ease concerns over its uranium enrichment but would
not suspend it. "Negotiations with the United States are of no use for
us. We have no use for such negotiations." he said. Washington has
said it will join EU states in talks with Iran if Tehran agrees to
halt uranium enrichment. "We will not negotiate with anyone over the
undeniable right of nuclear technology and using it," said Ayatollah
Khamenei. "If they recognize this right, we are ready to negotiate
over supervision controls," he added. The suspension of uranium
enrichment is the key demand in a proposal aimed at resolving the
nuclear row, backed by six world powers. The UN has offered Iran a
package of incentives, but Iran has so far not responded. Last week
Iran's president said a reply would come on 22 August. The US believes
Iran is trying to make nuclear weapons, but Tehran says it is
enriching uranium for energy purposes, as it is entitled to under the
terms of the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, to which it is a
signatory. |
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Iran's Ahmadinejad To Visit Iraq (June
27, 2006) - Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad is
scheduled to pay a visit to Iraq in the near future to hold a meeting
with his Iraqi counterpart Jalal Talebani. An informed source said
that in addition to attending talks with senior Iraqi officials,
Ahmadinejad is also due to go on pilgrimage in the holy shrines of the
Shiites' Imams in different Iraqi cities. President Ahmadinejad will
be accompanied by a high-ranking political and economic delegation
during the visit. The source also stated that the two sides have
decided to endorse some political and economic cooperation agreements
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Wary
of U.S., Syria and Iran Strengthen Ties (June
24, 2006)
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For a long
time, the top-selling poster in Hassan al-Sheikh's gift shop here
showed President Bashar al-Assad of Syria seated beside the leader of
Hezbollah in Lebanon. A few weeks ago a slightly different poster
overtook it, this one with the Syrian president, the Hezbollah leader
and Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Mr. Sheikh's shop is on a bustling street in Sayeda Zeinab
beside the entrance to a Shiite shrine that shares a name with the
town, and both have been packed with Iranian pilgrims, many more than
in years past. Those changes
illustrate what may well be a worrying phenomenon for Washington as it
seeks to contain Iran and isolate Syria: the two governments, and
their people, are tightening relations on several fronts as power in
the region shifts away from the once dominant Sunni to Shiites, led by
Iran. This is, in part, the
result of the American installation of a Shiite-dominated government
in Iraq after the overthrow of Saddam Hussein and his Sunni-led
government. But it is also spurred by the growing belief in Arab
capitals that the Bush administration may soon negotiate a deal with
Tehran over Iraq and nuclear weapons. Arab governments once hostile to Iran have begun to soften
their public posture after decades of animosity toward Tehran.
President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt met Iran's national security chief,
Ali Larijani, in Cairo recently, and Saudi Arabia's foreign minister,
Prince Saud al-Faisal, visited Tehran this month and declared the two
nations to be good friends. In addition, Iranian officials recently
sent messages of friendship to every Persian Gulf state. Amid all that activity, Syria has managed to inflate its power
in the region by playing a subtle double game and setting itself up as
a possible go-between. more...
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Iranian President Calls For Strengthening Relations With Turkey (June
25, 2006) - Iranian president calls for strengthening
relations with Turkey. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called on
Saturday for the strengthening of Iranian-Turkish relations in all fields.
The presidential office said in a statement that Ahmadinejad described in a
telephone call to Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan that the two
countries were tied through culture, history and religion. Furthermore, he
said that two countries played an important role on the regional and
international levels, and stressed that they had to increase deliberations
in order to consolidate international peace and security. For his part,
Erdogan expressed content with developments on the Iranian nuclear issue,
noting that relations between the two countries would be further
strengthened in the upcoming visit of Turkish Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul
to Tehran. The Turkish Foreign Minister is expected to arrive in Tehran
later tonight and is to hold talks with Iranian officials on issues of
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I'd just like to point out that Turkey is one
of the nations listed in the
Gog/Magog invasion.
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| Israel Needs a Preemptive Nuclear Strike Against Iran (June 24, 2006) - One of the best ways to ensure the world doesn't get wobbly over Iran, is to make it understand that although Israel prefers to regard the rogue Islamic regime as an international problem, we will, if necessary, do whatever it takes to ensure our survival, including a preemptive nuclear strike. In 1936, when Hitler marched into the Rhineland the allies appeased him, even though they could have been in Berlin in two weeks. In 1938 they once again let him off the hook, even though the allies could have been in Berlin within two months. Shortly after the appeasement of Munich, Russia signed a non-aggression treaty with Hitler, setting the stage for what it hoped would be his defeat of the West, which would pave the way for Russian domination of Eurasia, from Lisbon to Vladivostok. Now we have Iran, a country led by Ahmadinejad, an equally deranged and evil maniac. He is driven by an ideology combining elements of Nazism and Mahdism, with a tad of Maoism as well, a lethal cocktail of three of the most evil ideologies of human political history. By most current intelligence estimates, by 2008, exactly 70 years after Chamberlain announced on his return from Munich he had achieved "peace in our time", the Iranian Islamo-Nazi regime will have succeeded in developing an atomic bomb. Although it seems that the international community has belatedly begun to awaken to the danger, it is still far from certain that this will actually lead to concrete and concerted steps to ensure this doesn't happen. more... | Iran | Gog/Magog | Israel | I'm wondering if an invasion of Israel by the Gog/Magog forces could come from Israel attacking Iran's nuclear capabilities or from Syria. Time will tell. | |
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Iran Backs Attacks on U.S. Forces in Iraq, Casey Says (June
22, 2006) -
Iran is increasingly providing weapons and training to Shiite extremist
groups in Iraq who are attacking U.S. soldiers and Iraqi security forces,
said General George Casey, the top American military commander in Iraq. "We
are quite confident that the Iranians, through their covert special
operations forces, are providing weapons, IED technology and training, to
Shiite extremist groups in Iraq,'' Casey said at a press briefing today with
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld at the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia.
"Since January we have seen an upsurge in their support,'' said Casey.
Iran's actions are "decidedly unhelpful,'' he said. Iran uses "surrogates,''
including Hezbollah fighters from Lebanon, to provide materials to build
bombs, train guerilla fighters and conduct attacks, Casey said. The
insurgent training is being conducted in Iran and in some cases Lebanon, he
said. Iran's involvement is a "major element'' in Iraq's complex security
environment, Casey said. The three additional factors he cited are al-Qaeda
terrorists, "illegal armed groups'' of criminals and the Sunni Arab
resistance. more... |
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DEBKAfile
Exclusive: New Syria-Iranian defense treaty opens way for Iran's
Revolutionary Guards to deploy on Israel’s Golan border by summer’s
end (June 19, 2006)
- Iranian defense minister Gen. Mustafa
Najjar said: “Syria’s security is part of Iran’s security,” when he
signed a new military treaty with his visiting Syrian counterpart,
Gen. Hassan Turkmani (picture) in Tehran last Thursday June 15.
Sunday, June 18, Israel’s parliamentary foreign affairs and defense
committee inspected its northern border, along with the deputy chief
of staff Moshe Kaplinsky and OC Northern command Udi Adam. Both Tehran
and Damascus referred to the tour as Israel’s response to their new
treaty. DEBKAfile’s military sources add: At the signing
ceremony, the Syrian official waved away reporters’ questions on
whether Iran would be establishing a military base in Syria – “The
language of a (foreign) military base in our country is alien to us. I
want to say that it is not on the agenda.” Nonetheless, military
sources note that he rejected the term “bases” - but did not rule out
“foreign forces” in Syrian bases, which Persian Gulf and
Pakistani military sources are certain was agreed secretly between the
two countries. They have learned that Iran has offered to deploy
Revolutionary Guards on the Golan border with Israel by the end of
summer, because as Najjar said at the signing: “We have a common front
against Israel’s threats.” more...
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This really isn't too surprising,
Russia is planning a naval base in Syria. Iran, Russia, and Syria
are clearly allied together. By their association to Iran in the face
of anti-Semetic statements of the destruction of Israel clearly places
them in the same camp.
Russia is also becoming a Muslim state. They're stated goal is a
Muslim world, should we expect anything less from their efforts?
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New Moves on the Tripolar Chessboard (June
16, 2006) - For
months, the US press and policymaking elite have portrayed the crisis
with Iran as a two-sided struggle between Washington and Tehran, with
the European powers as well as Russia and China playing supporting
roles. It is certainly true that US President George W Bush and
Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad are the leading protagonists in
this drama, with each making inflammatory statements about the other
to whip up public support at home. But an informed reading of recent
international diplomacy surrounding the Iranian crisis suggests that
another equally fierce - and undoubtedly more important - struggle is
also taking place: a tripolar contest among the United States, Russia
and China for domination of the greater Persian Gulf/Caspian Sea
region and its mammoth energy reserves.
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Iran would 'use nuclear defense' (June
16, 2006) -
Iran's defense minister on Thursday vowed
that his country would "use nuclear defense as a potential" if
"threatened by any power." Speaking following a meeting with his
Syrian counterpart Hassan Ali Turkmani in Teheran on Thursday, Iranian
Defense Minister Mostafa Mohammad Najjar emphasized that Iran "should
be ready for confronting all kinds of threats." Teheran has denied
accusations by the US and its allies that Iran was seeking uranium
enrichment technologies in order to develop nuclear weapons, saying
its program was only meant to generate electricity. Meanwhile,
Turkmani told reporters that Syria and Iran's "policy is the policy of
strengthening resistance and tackling the threats of United States and
Israel." He added that he wouldn't give details of joint defense plans
against Israel, although the plans were "not secret."
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Iran |
Gog/Magog |
Israel |
Islam | Wait! I thought Iran
wasn't going to build nuclear weapons. How can you 'use nuclear
defense' if you don't have nuclear weapons? If they're vowing to use
it, then they must be making them. I guess we can trust that they
won't... yeah.
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Iran Seeks Aid in Asia In Resisting the West (June
16, 2006) -
Overshadowing a regional summit, Iranian
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad suggested Thursday that China, Russia
and neighboring Central Asian nations should help Iran resist growing
pressure from the United States and Europe to limit its nuclear
development program. The appeal, in a speech to leaders of the
six-nation Shanghai Cooperation Organization, seemed aimed in
particular at China and Russia. The two nations, permanent members of
the U.N. Security Council, have been reluctant to endorse the threat
of U.N. sanctions and other steps being pushed by the Bush
administration to persuade Iran to stop enriching uranium and submit
its nuclear program to international controls.
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Iran, Syria Sign Defense Agreement (June
16, 2006) - Defense
ministers from close allies Iran and Syria on Thursday signed an
agreement for military cooperation against what they called the
"common threats" presented by Israel and the United States. In a joint
press conference, Iranian Defense Minister Mostafa Mohammad Najjar and
visiting Syrian counterpart Hassan Turkmani said their talks had been
aimed at consolidating their defense efforts and strengthening support
for one another. "Our cooperation is based on a strategic pact and
unity against common threats. We can have a common front against
Israel's threats," Turkmani told reporters after two intensive rounds
of talks with Najjar. "Our cooperation with the Iranians against
Israeli threats is nothing secret and we regularly consult about this
with our friends," he said. Before the press conference, Iran's
defense ministry said the two sides "stressed strengthening mutual
ties and the necessity to preserve peace and stability in the region."
The defense ministry statement also said they discussed "ridding the
region of weapons of mass destruction," in an apparent reference to
the widely held belief that Israel possesses nuclear warheads.
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And the players keep lining up. Russia
is building a navy port in Syria too. China, Russia, and Iran are all
in kahoots with each other as evidenced by all the news coming out
about it. There is clearly an axis forming aligned against Israel and
the US. Europe panders to the powerful, so they'll be siding with Iran
and Russia too. This is in Bible prophecy. I believe that the false
prophet of
Revelation 13:11-18 will be the
12th Mahdi from Iran when he appears. (Iran's constitution already
has a Mahdi clause that gives him control of Iran when he comes back)
This false prophet will be very powerful and will point to the first
beast to be worshipped. The first beast of
Revelation 13:1-10 will be the political leader coming out of
Europe. I believe his position was formed by EU Recommendation number
666, which you can read more about the creation of that position in
the EU government from Herb Peters free online e-book,
Recommendation 666. I know this all sounds fantastic and crazy,
but it's Bible prophecy, and God will be glorified when it all happens
just as the Bible says.
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Iran President Arrives in China for Nuclear Summit (June 15, 2006) - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad arrived in Shanghai Wednesday, renewing the focus on the role China may play in resolving the standoff over the Islamic republic's nuclear program. In a suggestion that China was concerned the Iran issue would overshadow everything else at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization meeting, officials seemed eager not to play up expectations. "I don't believe having discussion or not having discussion of the Iran nuclear issue is the determinant of the relevance of this conference," foreign ministry spokesman Liu Jianchao told a briefing in Shanghai. Ahmadinejad is only a guest at Thursday's summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, which groups China, Russia, and four Central Asian states. Iran is an observer nation along with Pakistan, India and Mongolia. more... | Iran |
- Iran's Place at Summit Raises Fears of Anti-West Alliance (June 15, 2006) - Iran's hard-line president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, arrived in China last night for a summit of Asian states and Russia that Washington fears is forming a new anti-western alliance. Mr Ahmadinejad will seek support for his country's nuclear programme, fuelling US concern that Iran is being protected by its growing friendship with Russia and China, who both sit on the UN Security Council. He is also believed to be pushing to join the Shanghai Co-operation Organization, which is holding its annual summit in the city today and tomorrow. The SCO, under the leadership of China and Russia, is playing an ever-greater role in the jostling for power in Central Asia. The dictatorial nature of some of its membership, which also includes the former Soviet republics of Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan, has provoked descriptions of it as an anti-American alliance of despots. more... | Iran | America | Gog/Magog | Israel | Islam |
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Ahmadinejad to Meet Russian, Chinese Leaders (June
14, 2006) - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad plans
separate meetings this week with leaders of China and Russia, key
players who have resisted US efforts to seek tougher UN action in the
standoff over Iran's nuclear program. Those meetings were expected to
take place Friday following a summit meeting of the Shanghai
Cooperation Organization, or SCO, although host China, has said the
Iranian nuclear issue won't be on the summit's agenda. China had
already announced a planned meeting between Ahmadinejad and Chinese
President Hu Jintao, to include discussion of the nuclear dispute.
Russia's Interfax news agency said Wednesday Putin would also meet the
Iranian leader for talks on the nuclear issue, as well as Caspian Sea
energy exploration and other cooperation between the two states.
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Minister: Iran, Syria Security Intertwined (June
13, 2006) - Iranian Defense
Minister Gen. Mustafa Najjar stressed that Syria's security is part of
Iran's security and that his country has a duty to defend Syria.
Najjar's remarks were quoted by the Iranian News Agency, IRNA,
following his talks Monday with visiting Syrian counterpart Gen.
Hassan Torkmani. Najjar said Iran will extend full support to Syria
under present conditions "because Iran considers that Syria's security
is part of its own security and national interests." "Relations
between Iran and Syria are solid and fall within the framework of
consolidating peace, stability and security in the region," he added.
Torkmani, for his part, hailed Iran's stance on Syria, noting that he
is carrying a letter of mutual solidarity and support. He stressed the
need to reinforce the armed forces of the two countries to confront
the common enemy which seeks to destabilize security and provoke
tensions in the region. He also reaffirmed Syria's support to Iran's
right to profit from nuclear energy, stressing that "the only way to
settle the crisis over Iran's (nuclear program) is to recognize
officially this right." Both Torkmani and Najjar described the
military and defense relations between the two countries as
"strategic" and constitute "an example of regional cooperation."
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US cites China firms for supporting Iran military
(June 13, 2006)
- The
U.S. Treasury Department on Tuesday named one U.S. and four Chinese
companies as supporters of Iran's military and Iranian weapons
programs. The
designation, under an executive order issued by President George W.
Bush in 2005, freezes those companies' U.S. assets and outlaws U.S.
firms or people from doing business with them. The Chinese companies
are Beijing Alite Technologies Co. Ltd., LIMMT Economic and Trade Co.
Ltd., China Great Wall Industry Corp., and China National Precision
Machinery Import/Export Corp. The U.S. company, G.W. Aerospace Inc. of
Torrance, California, is the representative office of China Great Wall
Industry. The Treasury Department designates firms or people under a
range of executive orders and laws in an effort to stop flows of
financing to countries, groups, or individuals it says are engaged in
weapons proliferation, terrorism, or other illicit activities. The
executive order used in Tuesday's announcement is aimed at choking off
funding for weapons programs in North Korea, Iran, and Syria.
"Governments worldwide are urged to take appropriate measures to
ensure that their companies and financial institutions are not
facilitating Iran's proliferation activities," Treasury Undersecretary
Stuart Levey said in a statement. more...
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China and Iranian Presidents to Meet Next Week (June
11, 2006) - The Chinese and
Iranian presidents will discuss the Iranian nuclear dispute during a
separate meeting next week in Shanghai on the sidelines of a regional
summit, the Chinese foreign ministry said Thursday. President Hu
Jintao will play host to his Iranian counterpart, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad,
along with the leaders of Russia and four Central Asian countries who
comprise the Shanghai Cooperation Organization. Foreign Ministry
spokesman Liu Jianchao said Hu and Ahmadinejad will hold consultations
aside from the group meeting. Iran is attending the gathering as an
observer, but Ahmadinejad's presence is raising expectations that
China and Russia will broach a new European offer of incentives for
Iran to relinquish its nuclear enrichment program. "I think the
Iranian nuclear issue will be talked about," Liu said at a regular
press briefing in response to a reporter's question about what the
leaders will discuss. "China and Iran have communicated and will
continue to communicate on the Iranian nuclear issue in order to
enhance our mutual understanding so as to make continuous efforts to
reach a peaceful solution to the Iranian nuclear issue through
diplomatic negotiations," he said. more...|
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Iran sees problems in atomic offer from six powers (June
11, 2006) -
Iran's envoy to the U.N. nuclear watchdog urged it to exercise
restraint at a meeting starting on Monday while Tehran studies an
offer from world powers to avert a showdown over its disputed atomic
program. Diplomats said the 35 nations on the International Atomic
Energy Agency's governing board planned a debate on Iran but to keep
it low-key and pass no resolutions to avoid upsetting delicate
diplomacy over the powers' overture to Tehran. Four months ago, the
dispute over Iranian nuclear fuel work escalated when the board voted
to refer Tehran to the U.N. Security Council over its history of
hiding atomic research and obstructing IAEA investigations. Last week,
six big powers offered Iran a batch of economic and security
incentives to shelve a uranium-enrichment program that could yield
fuel for nuclear power plants or, eventually, atomic bombs. If Iran
refuses, it could face U.N. sanctions. Chief Iranian nuclear
negotiator Ali Larijani said on Sunday the package contained positive
elements but also "problems and ambiguous points." He said the
precondition that Iran stop all enrichment work, which it has ruled
out, had to be clarified. more...|
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Russia Urges Israel Against Iran attack (June
9, 2006) - Russia sent messages to Israel
through US intermediaries recently, voicing opposition to a possible
military attack on Iran's nuclear facilities, The Jerusalem Post
has learned. While Israel and Russia have good relations and a direct
line of communications, the Russians chose to use the US to deliver
this message of military restraint out of a belief that Jerusalem pays
closer attention to messages from Washington. According to assessments
reaching Jerusalem, while the Russians don't want to see Iran get the
bomb, they believe this may still be a decade away and that in the
meantime diplomatic efforts might succeed in keeping Teheran from
reaching that point. Moscow is concerned any military conflagration
would eventually spill over the Russian-Iranian border into the
Caucasus, central Asia and even Chechnya, and be detrimental to
Russian interests. more... |
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Central Asian Bloc Considering Iran For Membership (June
9, 2006) - An obscure
regional security group will consider admitting Iran as a member at a
summit this month, accelerating its transformation into a political
and military bloc with the potential to challenge U.S. interests. U.S.
analysts think Russia and China already are using the Shanghai
Cooperation Organization (SCO) -- which links the two with four
Central Asian neighbors -- to try to squeeze the United States out of
the region. SCO foreign ministers said at an earlier meeting that
consideration is being given to extending membership to four countries
with observer status -- Iran, Pakistan, India and Mongolia. Iranian
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is expected to attend the summit on June
15 in Shanghai. Expansion of the organization into Iran and other
countries could make it "an enormous power," said David Wall, a
professor at the University of Cambridge's East Asia Institute. "An
expanded SCO would control a large part of the world's oil and gas
reserves and nuclear arsenal. It would essentially be an OPEC with
bombs," he said, referring to the Organization of the Petroleum
Exporting Countries. Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld alluded
to the coming summit on his way to a weekend security conference in
Singapore. Comparing the openness of the Singapore meeting to other
unnamed gatherings, he said: "There are some efforts and systems that
leave us out, and we obviously favor institutions that are inclusive,
rather than exclusive." A warning shot was fired at last year's SCO
summit, where the group issued a declaration calling for the United
States to set a timeline for withdrawing from air bases in Uzbekistan
and Kyrgyzstan, established to support the war on terrorism in
Afghanistan. Delegates from Kazakhstan, Washington's closest friend in
the SCO, argued at that meeting to head off an even stronger
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Iran Begins Fresh Nuclear Enrichment Despite Offer (June
8, 2006) - Iran began a
fresh phase of uranium enrichment this week just as world powers
presented it with incentives to halt nuclear fuel work, according to a
U.N. nuclear watchdog agency report obtained by Reuters on Thursday.
The report, emailed to the 35 states on the International Atomic
Energy Agency's governing board ahead of a meeting starting on Monday,
also said Iran was pressing ahead with installing more cascades of
centrifuge enrichment machines. Authored by IAEA chief Mohammed
ElBaradei, the report said Iran resumed feeding "UF6" uranium gas into
its pilot 164-centrifuge cascade in Natanz on Tuesday after a pause of
several weeks to do test runs of the machines without UF6. Tuesday was
the day European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana visited
Tehran to hand over a packet of economic, technological and security
incentives for Iran to suspend work which could eventually produce
atomic bombs. The Islamic Republic says the goal of its nuclear fuel
programme is solely electricity generation for its economy. The West
suspects that Iran, the world's No. 4 oil producer, of creating a
smokescreen for atomic bombmaking. more...
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| Iran's Positive Response Offers Hope (June 7, 2006) - Iran has begun to give positive signals for the first time about a peaceful settlement in the international crisis that resulted from the country’s controversial nuclear studies. Though the Tehran administration responded positively to the incentives package prepared by the five United Nations (UN) permanent members and Germany, Iran; however, pointed out the existence of some ambiguities in the package. European Union (EU) Foreign Policy Chief Javier Solana presented the incentives package intended to settle the crisis over Iran’s nuclear studies to Iran's Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Secretary Ali Larijani yesterday. Larijani found the incentives package “positive”; though he cited some “ambiguities” which “should be removed.“ Solana also met with Iranian Foreign Minister Manuchehr Muttaqi. “The proposal is on the table. I hope that we will get a positive response, which will be useful for both sides,” he said. The EU official’s remarks, who said he had “very fruitful talks” both with Larijani and Muttaqi, gave hope to the world about Iran’s “positive response” for a nuclear deal. more... | Iran | EU/UN | Solana | | |
| US to allow Iran convert uranium (June 7, 2006) - World powers have compromised on a demand that Iran commit to a long-term moratorium on uranium enrichment and are asking only for suspension during talks on Teheran's nuclear program, diplomats said Wednesday. In another concession, Iran would be allowed to carry out uranium conversion - a precursor to enrichment - if it agrees to multination talks, the diplomats said. They spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because they are not authorized to divulge the contents of the offer made by six countries to Teheran Tuesday in a bid to defuse the Iranian nuclear standoff. Such changes to long-standing international demands on enrichment are important because they signal possible readiness to accept some limited form of the activity, despite fears that it can be misused to make the fissile core of nuclear warheads. Since talks between key European nations and Iran broke off in August, the public stance by the European negotiators and the United States has been that Iran must commit to a long-term moratorium on enrichment to establish confidence as a precondition for talks on the nuclear standoff. more... | Iran | America | | |
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Iran Hoarding Gold (June
7, 2006) - Iranians are
going for the gold - at least until someone else cuts them off. To
forestall an effort by the West to seize Iranian assets in Europe, the
Iranian leadership decided last fall to begin a massive, secret
repatriation of its international currency reserves, according to
Central Bank of Iran documents. The documents were obtained by an
Iranian opposition group and shared with Newsmax. The documents detail
eight shipments in chartered jumbo jets from Zurich's Kloten airport.
The shipments, from October through late November, brought 250 tons of
gold bullion from the vaults of Swiss banks to Tehran. The gold was
purchased by Bank Markazi (the Central Bank of Iran) from Credit
Suisse in Zurich, the documents showed. Three of the eight flights
attracted the attention of amateur aircraft spotters, because the
planes were painted in the distinctive livery of Iran Air, which
rarely flies into Zurich. The spotters noted a 747-200 at the airport
on Oct. 24, 2005, and an Airbus A-300 that made two rotations, on Nov.
14 and Nov. 23. They provided that information to Jetstream, a glossy,
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| Iran to Build Oil Refinery in Venezuela (June 6, 2006) - Iran and Venezuela, both at political loggerheads with the Bush administration, are deepening their economic ties. Iran will build an oil refinery in Faga, in Venezuela's oil-rich Orinoco province. IRNA news agency reported on June 1 that the refinery will refine heavy oil into gasoline and other oil derivatives. energy Minister and head of Petroleos de Venezuela Rafael Ramirez said the agreement would benefit both countries, adding that after the refinery comes online Iran will import gasoline from Venezuela. Iranian Oil Minister Kazem Vaziri Hamaneh is in Caracas to attend the 140th extraordinary meeting of the Organization of petroleum Exporting Countries, which opened June 1. Ramirez said that geopolitical tensions are the primary reason oil prices are currently above $70 a barrel. OPEC has kept its production ceiling at 28 million barrels per day since July 2005. Ramirez stated that Venezuela plans to increase its production to 5.8 million bpd in 2012. | Iran | | |
| USA Out-Flanked in Eurasia Energy Politics? (June 5, 2006) - Curiously and quietly the United States is being out-flanked in its now-obvious strategy of controlling major oil and energy sources of the Persian Gulf, Central Asia Caspian Basin, Africa and beyond. The US's global energy control strategy, it's now clear to most, was the actual reason for the highly costly regime change in Iraq, euphemistically dubbed 'democracy' by Washington. George W. Bush restated his democracy mantra as recently as May 28 at the West Point military graduating ceremony where he declared that America's safety depends on an aggressive push for democracy, especially in the Middle East. 'This is only the beginning,' Bush said. 'The message has spread from Damascus to Tehran that the future belongs to freedom, and we will not rest until the promise of liberty reaches every people in every nation.' If the trend of recent events continues, it won't be Bush-style democracy that is spreading, but rather, Russian and Chinese influence over major oil and gas energy supplies. The quest for energy control has informed Washington's support for high-risk 'color revolutions' in Georgia, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Belarus and Kyrgystan in recent months. It lies behind US activity in the Western Africa Gulf of Guinea states, as well as in Sudan, source of 7% of China oil import. It lies behind US policy vis-à-vis Hugo Chavez' Venezuela and Evo Morales' Bolivia. In recent months, however, this strategy of global energy dominance, a strategic US priority, has shown signs of producing just the opposite: a kind of 'coalition of the unwilling,' states who increasingly see no other prospect, despite traditional animosities, but to cooperate to oppose what they see as a US push to control it all, their energy future security. Some in Washington are beginning to realize they might have been too clever by about half, as is evident in recent public statements to both China and Russia, two nations whose cooperation in some form is essential to the success of the global US energy project. more... | America | Iran | NewWorldOrder | |
| EU's Solana Due in Iran late on Monday (June 5, 2006) - European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana is due in Tehran late on Monday to deliver a package of incentives that seek to persuade Iran to abandon its plans to make nuclear fuel, Iranian sources said. One of the sources, who all asked not to be identified, said Solana would meet Iranian officials on Tuesday. An EU diplomat also said Solana would be in Iran on Tuesday but gave no further details. Speaking during a visit to the West Bank city of Ramallah, Solana said he would travel to Iran "very soon", but did not elaborate. He arrived in Israel late on Sunday as part of a previously planned trip that includes meetings with Israeli and Palestinian leaders. His spokeswoman has said he would have dinner with Palestinian civil society leaders in Ramallah on Monday might. The incentives Solana will deliver to Iran stem from an initiative put together by the three biggest EU states - Britain, France and Germany - and were approved by a forum that also included the United States, China and Russia. Solana's office in Brussels said it was preparing an announcement about the details of the trip but for now could not be more precise about the timing. Details of the package have not been announced, but diplomats have been working on themes ranging from offering nuclear reactor technology to giving security guarantees. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Saturday Iran would consider incentives but insisted the crux of the package -- that Iran must give up uranium enrichment -- was still unacceptable. Western nations fear Iran is enriching uranium to make an atomic bomb, but Iran insists its aims are entirely peaceful and that it wants to make fuel only to generate electricity. | Iran | EU/UN | Israel | |
| Iran's Military Plans for Invasion by U.S. (May 31, 2006) - Iran, apparently anticipating an American invasion, has quietly been restructuring its military and testing a new military doctrine that calls for a decentralized, Iraqi-style guerrilla campaign against an invading force. Iran's military planners are acutely aware that a military confrontation with technologically more advanced U.S. armed forces would be rapid and multifronted, unlike the static and slow-paced 1980-88 war with Saddam Hussein's Iraq. Therefore, a series of war games have been carried out since late last year to test the army's readiness. In December, more than 15,000 members of the regular armed forces participated in an exercise in northwestern Iran's strategically sensitive Azerbaijan border provinces that focused on irregular warfare carried out by highly mobile army units, according to the official MENA news agency. A second exercise was conducted in the majority-Arab province of Khuzestan in September, according to the Iranian press, aimed at quelling insurgencies in areas subject to ethnic unrest and prone to foreign influence. Involving a reported 100,000 troops, the exercise provided an example of how the Islamic Republic would respond to further disturbances in the strategic, oil-rich province that has been the scene of a year-old terrorist bombing campaign. more... | Iran | America | | |
| Tel Aviv within range of new Iran-supplied Hezbollah rocket (May 29, 2006) - Iran has equipped the Lebanese-based radical Islamic group Hezbollah with long-range rockets capable of hitting targets up to 200 kilometers away, putting all of Israel's major urban centers - including the southern city of Be'er Sheva - within striking distance. The solid-fuel rockets lack an independent guidance system and their accuracy is questionable but they can still cause considerable damage. According to intelligence estimates, the rockets are meant to strike non-specific areas, such as towns and cities, and carry a warhead estimated to weigh 600 kilograms. This latest development doubles the range of weapons previously in Hezbollah's arsenal. In this latest transfer of military technology, Iran is seeking to improve its strategic options against Israel rather than better Hezbollah's capabilities. Equipping a Lebanese group considered by the west to be a terrorist organization with such rockets also poses a danger to Lebanon. The government of Lebanon has been pressured in the past by Hezbollah to disregard the United Nations Security Council resolution 1559, which demands that all armed militias in the country disarm. Hezbollah maintains that it is not a militia and is therefore not obliged to disarm, but the Security Council has not accepted this argument. The rockets delivered to the Hezbollah have appeared under different names. One is Zelzal-2, and its earlier model is the Zelzal-1. Another Iranian name for the rocket is Nazeat. more... | Iran | |