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Novice Obama’s Time in Office Has Led US into Foreign Policy Horror!

He does not fire appointees who blunder for fear they will rat on Him

Because He Is the Dominant Administrative Wolf that Directs the Pack

February 22, 2014

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Obama Announcement of al-Qaeda Destruction Was a Political Hoax

That He made to Booster His Power as US Pharaoh of World Leaders

But it’s exposed him as a braying donkey Novice crying in the Desert!

President Obama’s announcement of the destruction of al-Qaeda was a political fairy tale to elevate his sagging foreign policy prestige. He is a definitely a novice whose only talent is in covering up his blunders and those of his appointees. The reason he does not fire them outright, but shifts them into other governmental positions is obvious. He does not want them to rat on him as the leader of the wolf pack.

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Sinai tourist bus blast killing at least 5 people points up Egyptian-Israeli inadequacy against al Qaeda

DEBKAfile Exclusive Analysis

February 16, 2014, 7:58 PM (IST)

The bombing of a tourist bus carrying 33 South Korean tourists in Sinai just 250 meters from the Taba crossing to Israel, killing at least 4 tourists and the Egyptian driver, represents a major failure of the joint war Egypt and Israel are waging against Al Qaeda and its partners-in-terror, the Muslim Brotherhood and the Palestinian Hamas. At least 14 South Korean tourists were injured, although some sources put the figure at 20.
The South Korean group, coming from St. Catherine’s monastery near Mount Sinai, was hit just before entering Israel for a 24-hour tour of the Holy Places.
Exactly how the attack was engineered is still unclear,
DEBKAfile counterterrorism sources report. According to one theory, the tourist bus was attacked in three stages:
1. An explosive device was planted inside the base on a timer – either when the visitors were out touring or at one of the rest stops between the monastery and Taba.
2. At the moment that the bomb was timed to detonate, the terrorists fired a rocket at the bus.
3. At the same moment, a bomb car rammed the right wall of the bus and exploded.
Given the clockwork precision of the three actions and the quantity of explosives expended, the low number of casualties is surprising.
The operaton bore the signature of Ansar Bayt Al-Maqdis, the al Qaeda-led Islamist coalition which has been carrying out terrorist and rocket attacks on both sides of the border, and whose membership includes a number of seasoned and highly trained terror operatives from Libya, Egypt, Yemen and Saudi Arabia. They are fed a steady stream of intelligence by Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood figures hiding in the Gaza Strip as well as locals of the Palestinian Hamas and the Jihad Islami.
They succeeded in breaking new ground in Sinai with their attack on a tourist target – and deal a body blow to a major Egyptian industry – only because key events caught the anti-terror forces wanting:
a) One of the four trials against deposed Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi opened in Cairo Sunday morning, in which he was charged with espionage and conspiring to commit acts of terror.
This date should have been accompanied by an elevated terror alert not only in Egypt proper but in Sinai as well. The trial was adjourned to Feb. 23 when his lawyers walked out in protest against Morsi being confined in a soundproofed cage, since he got the best felony lawyers from sites as www.denvercocriminaldefenselawyer.com/felony online.
That date too could be a red-letter day for terror.
b) The fact that Egyptian-Israeli border forces went on high alert only after the bombing of the tourist bus – not before – points to lax foresight by both forces.
c) Despite intensive intelligence-sharing between Egypt and Israel in Sinai and the Gaza Strip, neither agency picked up on the plans in the making for the coming attack.
d) It is the declared policy of Ansar Bayt Al-Maqdis to punish Israel for Egyptian assaults on its members and bases with rocket strikes on Eilat. The last such strike took place on Jan. 31. Israeli authorities have chosen to play these threats down, except for posting an Iron Dome anti-missile battery at Israel’s southernmost town.
e) The Sinai jihadists spotted the hole in this defensive screen. Iron Dome is set to intercept rockets aimed at Eilat, but not to gather intelligence outside its radius, such as Taba, just a few kilometers to the north. Intelligence there depended on other sources.
The fact is that Ansar Bayt Al-Magdis was able to rig a bomb to blow up just a few meters from the Taba terminal and the Israeli border bespeaks a large hole in IDF defenses.
f) Israel permitted the Egyptian army to deploy military units, tanks and assault helicopters in Sinai, a major concession in support of the war on terror. But those forces have failed to curb the operational capabilities of the terrorists who are making free of Sinai.
g) The whisper going around Israeli official and high military circles is that the government’s policy of relying on the Egyptian army to handle the Islamist terrorists has run aground. There are quiet calls for an urgent revision. It is time for Israel’s security and military chiefs to stop pretending that they can afford to turn their backs on the mounting menace posed by Al Qaeda groups closing in on its borders from south and north.

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“Islamilization” Takeovers by Radical Islamic Elements

Old Turkish Secularists Think Turkish PM like Antichrist

June 12, 2008

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Islamic Extremist Elements of the Worldwide Jihad Movement, within the Muslim Society, will not cease their gradual chewing away of any other mindset, until a massive Caliphate under Islamic Law stretches from Morocco to India.

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Al-Qaeda Groups Active in Gaza after Year under Hamas

Nidal al-Mughrabi (Reuters)

Analysts believe al-Qaeda-allied radical groups like Jaysh al-Ummah (Army of the Nation) have benefited from the Hamas takeover in Gaza to expand their membership.

In addition, there has been an increase in attacks on Christians in the past year, apparently by Islamists not content with the extent of Hamas’ “Islamization” of Gaza.

Among the outward signs has been a proliferation of beards on men and headscarves on women, along with the virtual disappearance of alcohol.

Market stalls do brisk business in selling recordings of speeches of al-Qaeda leaders Osama bin Laden, Ayman al-Zawahri and the late Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, as well as videos of beheadings of U.S. and foreign soldiers and personnel in Iraq.

One Gaza political analyst noted: “Hamas is keen not to be seen as an Islamic state, so they’ve refrained from passing laws or forcing people to follow what they believe.

They have not taken action to Islamize the community. But allowing extremist thinking to breed armed cells is much more dangerous.”

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Islamism will win over Arab Nationalism!

The Opposite of Individual Arab Nationalism

Is the Islamist dream of a single great Caliphate,

Stretching from Gibraltar across India to Indonesia,

Ruled over by the Mahdi & Isa of their false god Allah!

It will form quickly as the 10 toes of Daniel 2 attack Israel,

But vanish forever when Messiah destroys it at Armageddon,

Some three & one half years after statue’s 10 toes strike Israel!

September 3, 2008

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At the battle of Armageddon most of the kings of the earth will come to join the antichrist in a final attempt to eradicate the nation of Israel. Among them will be 10 nations representing the 10 Jihad toes of Daniel 2 that drove Israel into the Negev three and one-half years earlier.

Revelation 19:19 – And I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse, and against his army.

Some three and one-half years before the final battle of Armageddon, which closes the tribulation period, ten kings of nations out of the territory once occupied by the ancient Roman Empire will attack Israel from the north.

Daniel 2:42 – And as the toes of the feet were part of iron, and part of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong, and partly broken.

II Thessalonians 2:3 – Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;

The last evil kingdom of antichrist on this earth was to initially be comprised of 10 nations with 10 kings led by the man of sin himself. It was to arise out of the ashes of the old Roman Empire. I have always believed it would rise out of the southern half of the Empire and be made up of 10 Arab nations. I believe the elements for its formation are in place today, and I suspect that the most likely Arab nations of which it will be comprised are Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Sudan, Turkey, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, and Iran. Some of these nations are strong like iron, and some are as soft and pliable as clay.

I do not question that in the final battle of Armageddon the descendants of Ham, Shem, and Japheth will be combatants against the nation of Israel. But I have always contended, along with the Bible expositors of the 18th and 19th centuries, that the antichrist’s initial attack would be led by Arab descendants of Abraham. They are the mingled seed of his oldest son Ishmael with the seed of the six sons he sired by Keturah, as well as some of the other offspring of his own father Terah. The empire of the antichrist will be an Islamic empire that eventually takes into it other old world nations. And, in the final great battle of Armageddon, all those nations that made up the world as it was known in A.D. 95 will come against Israel, such that Japheth, Ham, and Shem’s descendants will also be involved.

Daniel 2:41-43 – And whereas thou sawest the feet and toes, part of potters’ clay, and part of iron, the kingdom shall be divided; but there shall be in it of the strength of the iron, forasmuch as thou sawest the iron mixed with miry clay. [42] And as the toes of the feet were part of iron, and part of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong, and partly broken. [43] And whereas thou sawest iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men: but they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron is not mixed with clay.

The 10 toes will consist primarily of Terah’s descendants. Abraham came out of Terah. Out of Abraham came the leaders of the three great monotheistic faiths associated with Moses, Jesus, and Mohammad. And they have always been in conflict. (See Archive Update 78 Diagram)

The inspired word in Daniel 2:43, from which the word “mingled” comes, is ARAB, which means “to interlace or mix.” The “seed of men” refers to non-descendants of the man Abraham, from which both Jews and Arabs descended. “They” refers to the 10 toes of Daniel’s statue in Daniel 2:42, which have 10 kings over them. Isaac, the father of Israel, had seven half brothers – Ishmael from Hagar and the six sons of Keturah. It was from these seven half brothers that the Arab world has been primarily created. The descendants of Israel have been more likely to marry within the blood line of the man Israel than have the Arabs to marry within their separate bloodlines of Hagar and Keturah, and the Arabs have also intermingled with non-descendants of Abraham more than have the Jews.

Daniel 2:43 – And whereas thou sawest iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men: but they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron is not mixed with clay.

Just as iron and clay do not hold together very long, the 10 Arab nations will only hold together long enough to fulfill God’s end time tribulation period prophecies. The saved will be caught up on the sounding of the seventh trump to be judged in heaven, and the kingdom of God will all be united in heaven, waiting to return to earth with Christ at his Second Advent.

Revelation 11:15 – And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever.

Daniel 2:44 – And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever.

The God of heaven will call all the saved of all the ages together in heaven during the “days of these kings,” and will initially “set up” his kingdom, from whence he will return to earth with it as its head, after the saved have been judged in heaven. Christ’s coming kingdom will “break in pieces and consume all the kingdoms” of the present world, and his kingdom alone will rule.

Revelation 11:15-18 – And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever. [16] And the four and twenty elders, which sat before God on their seats, fell upon their faces, and worshipped God, [17] Saying, We give thee thanks, O Lord God Almighty, which art, and wast, and art to come; because thou hast taken to thee thy great power, and hast reigned. [18] And the nations were angry, and thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that thou shouldest give reward unto thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear thy name, small and great; and shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth.

Christ, the stone, came from the mountain representing God, without any human instrumentation, but by God’s Spirit forming his body in a virgin’s womb. Christ will return to destroy those morally destroying the earth. All of the evil that came out of the Babylonian, Medo- Persian, Macedonian, and Roman Empires will be laid waste by his Second Advent.

Daniel 2:45 – Forasmuch as thou sawest that the stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it brake in pieces the iron, the brass, the clay, the silver, and the gold; the great God hath made known to the king what shall come to pass hereafter: and the dream is certain, and the interpretation thereof sure.

The Scriptures which follow describe the coming of the great Stone, the great Rock, coming with his kingdom.

Revelation 19:11-18 – And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war. [12] His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his head were many crowns; and he had a name written, that no man knew, but he himself. [13] And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God. [14] And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean. [15] And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God. [16] And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS. [17] And I saw an angel standing in the sun; and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the fowls that fly in the midst of heaven, Come and gather yourselves together unto the supper of the great God; [18] That ye may eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of captains, and the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses, and of them that sit on them, and the flesh of all men, both free and bond, both small and great.

Daniel 2:44 – And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever.

Revelation 19:19,20 – And I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse, and against his army. [20] And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.

The Islamic Mahdi is the Beast of Revelation 19:20, the False Prophet is the Islamic Isa.

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A Middle East Strategy for the West

Barry Rubin (Jerusalem Post)

The great battle in the Middle East is between Arab nationalism and Islamism. Democracy isn’t on the agenda. Roughly 60-70% of the Arabic-speaking world is still Arab nationalist, 20%-30% is Islamist and 10% pro-moderate democracy.

In Syria, the regime is Arab nationalist but its international policy and domestic propaganda are largely Islamist. It backs Iraqi, Lebanese and Palestinian Islamist terrorists, and is deeply committed to the Iranian alliance.

The notion of helping groups like the Muslim Brotherhood become more powerful or seize control of countries is insane. It is more likely to ensure decades of bloodshed, the deaths of many thousands of people in internal strife and foreign warfare, and the destruction of Western interests.

The two contending forces are both local. The West is an outside factor whose intervention won’t decide this contest generally. The West can, however, do some critical things if it knows how to help one side against the other where appropriate. The people to help are the Arab nationalists. As a group, at least with Saddam Hussein gone from Iraq, they are less internationally aggressive and less internally repressive than the revolutionary, enthusiastic and ideologically idealistic Islamists.

But don’t romanticize Arab nationalist regimes. They’re incompetent, corrupt, anti-democratic and unreliable. We know their failings are one significant reason the Islamists have grown but, frankly, there’s nothing we can do about it. There’s no third alternative.

Any concession made to the Islamist side – including Syria – sends a signal to regimes, radical Islamist groups, and the people that the Islamists are winning and everyone better join or appease them.

The writer is director of the Global Research in International Affairs Center at IDC Herzliya and editor of the Middle East Review of International Affairs Journal.

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Future Islamist Mahdi Shall Have A Supernatural Power OF Satan!

The spirit of Antichrist Has Worked Hard Since The Cross of Jesus!

And Now Empowers Islam’s Middle East Descendants OF Abraham,

Through The Twelve Sons of Ishmael And The Six Sons of Keturah!

I Realize How Hard It Is To Hold Clay AND Iron Together Very Long

Because I was Privileged to dwell among them across the Mid-East.

February 21, 2014

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If you really want to know what the many sects of Islam believe in order to know why it is so hard for the iron and clay of Islam to bond together for any great length of time, please read the lengthy MEMRI excerpt following our heading and Scriptures.

Revelation 16:10-16 – And the fifth angel poured out his vial upon the seat of the beast; and his kingdom was full of darkness; and they gnawed their tongues for pain, [11] And blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores, and repented not of their deeds. [12] And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared. [13] And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet. [14] For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty. [15] Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame. [16] And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon.

1 John 5:5 – Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God?

I John 4:3,4 – And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world. [4] Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.

The spirit of Antichrist in the world that will indwell the Mahdi, shall be able to hold the great religious differences in the Muslim faith together to unite to attack Israel, but the 2nd Advent of Jesus Christ will end his Caliphate, and the Mahdi and his False Prophet will be cast into a Lake of Fire burning with brimstone.

Revelation 19:19-21 – And I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse, and against his army. [20] And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone. [21] And the remnant were slain with the sword of him that sat upon the horse, which sword proceeded out of his mouth: and all the fowls were filled with their flesh.

Daniel 2:41-44 – And whereas thou sawest the feet and toes, part of potters’ clay, and part of iron, the kingdom shall be divided; but there shall be in it of the strength of the iron, forasmuch as thou sawest the iron mixed with miry clay. [42] And as the toes of the feet were part of iron, and part of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong, and partly broken. [43] And whereas thou sawest iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men: but they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron is not mixed with clay. [44] And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever.

It will take the power of the spirit of Antichrist to hold the many clay and iron toes together from the initial attack until the 2nd Advent. And he can only do it only because God allows it.

Revelation17:17 – For God hath put in their hearts to fulfil his will, and to agree, and give their kingdom unto the beast, until the words of God shall be fulfilled.

Revelation 17:12-14 – And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast. [13] These have one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto the beast. [14] These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them: for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings: and they that are with him are called, and chosen, and faithful.

The excerpt from MEMRI is very long, but it is the best I have seen to show the deep differences between many divided sects within Islam. Having lived among them I know it is true.

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Middle East Media Research Institute

Iran Calls For Violent Shi’ite Reaction Against Saudi Arabia

By: A. Savyon, Y. Mansharof, E. Kharrazi, and Y. Lahat*

Inquiry & Analysis Series Report No. 1068

February 12, 2014

Introduction

With the upsurge in attacks on Iranian interests, and on interests affiliated with Iran’s proxies, in Lebanon, Iraq, Yemen, and Afghanistan, the Iranian leadership and its mouthpieces have launched a campaign of harsh criticism against the Saudi regime, accusing Saudi Arabia, and particularly Saudi security chief Bandar bin Sultan, of responsibility for attacks on Iran and on the resistance axis in the region. Iran’s senior officials and media are calling the Saudi regime a takfiri (i.e. heretical) Wahhabi stream that is acting against Islam and the Muslims, in cooperation with the U.S, Israel, and Zionism.
It should be noted that the extreme language that Iran previously reserved for anti-Israel statements is now being used against Saudi Arabia.
Both Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and Iranian President Hassan Rohani have indirectly accused what they call Saudi Arabia’s collaboration with the West against Islam of harming Iran’s interests across the Middle East, and have warned it that the Saudi protection of “takfiri circles” so that they can carry out operations against Iran in the region will ultimately backfire on it.
Another aspect of the attack on Saudi Arabia was religious in nature; senior Iranian ayatollahs called for labelling the Wahhabis enemies of the Muslims, collaborators with the infidels, or offshoots of the forces that abandoned God after the death of the Prophet Muhammad. They bolstering these claims by stating that these views have their roots in the Koran. Some even called for the issuing of a fatwa against the Wahhabis, while others called for Muslim forces to unite against them.
It should be stressed that clerics close to the office of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei have issued a call to their fellow Shi’ite clerics in Pakistan, Indonesia, and Malaysia – Sunni countries that are friendly to the Saudis – not to cooperate with the Wahhabis.
Among the onslaught of blunt anti-Saudi statements by representatives of the Iranian regime, Sobh-e Sadeq, the weekly publication of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), and the Iranian daily Kayhan – both of which represent Iran’s ideological stream – stood out with their call for reprisals on the ground against the Saudis. While Sobh-e Sadeq discussed the need for “a decisive and crushing response” and added that “Saudi mercenaries’ assassination of Iranian diplomats allows Iran to reserve the right to carry out any kind of reprisal operation,” Kayhan threatened Saudi Arabia, particularly its royal house, by calling for operations for “reining in the terrorism” and that these operations “should start on the streets leading to King ‘Abdallah’s palace in Riyadh ”
Kayhan also hinted at terror attacks against Saudi Arabia to be carried out by the Shi’ites in Saudi Arabia and Iraq, writing: “The Kurds, the Shi’ites, and the Sunnis in Iraq, who owe the current order and the current law in Iraq to agreements [reached] among them in 2004-2010, will not overlook the terror operations… From 2003 to this day, Saudi Arabia has fanned the terrorism in Iraq; according to statistics, over 300,000 victims from among the Iraqi people have been killed. Therefore, Saudi Arabia cannot be immune from the ramifications of its terror operations.” The paper added: “If Saudi Arabia continues to equip and arm the terrorists of the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq (ISIS) and of several other groups like Ansar Al-Sunna, every operation that the Shi’ites will carry out against Saudi facilities and centers will be legitimate.”
Spokesmen from the camp of Iranian Expediency Council chairman Hashemi Rafsanjani, including Rafsanjani himself along with Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif and Iranian Atomic Energy Organization chairman Ali Akbar Salehi, were notable as the only ones to call for dialogue with Saudi Arabia, despite the grave accusations that they levelled against it regarding its support for organizations carrying out terrorism against Iran and its interests.
This report will review the main Iranian statements against Saudi Arabia:
Iranian Regime Officials: Saudi Arabia’s Support For Takfiri Circles Will Harm it
Supreme Leader Khamenei: The Takfiri Stream Greatly Endangers The Islamic World
In a January 19, 2014 speech, during Islamic unity week, Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei said: “Some takfiris, instead of paying attention to the evil Zionist regime, are, in the name of Islam and shari’a, calling most Muslims heretics and preparing the ground for war, violence, and schism. Therefore, the existence of this takfiri [i.e. heretical] stream is good news for the enemies of Islam…
“The takfiri stream causes clashes among Muslims by dividing them into ‘Muslim and heretic’… Thus, no one can doubt that the existence of this stream and its support with money and weapons are not an operation of the apparatuses of security and evil belonging to the governments of the arrogance [i.e. the West led by the U.S.] and their puppet regimes…
“Unfortunately, some Muslim governments are fanning these conflicts, and fail to realize that this fire will also burn all of them… The arrogance is attempting to cloak the Islamic awakening by pitting the disciples of various Islamic schools [i.e. Sunnis and Shi’ites] against each other. They are tarnishing Islam in the eyes of global public opinion by highlighting the ugly actions of the takfiri stream, for example, their chewing on the livers of the people whom they murder.” Khamenei’s Facebook Page: Islamic Governments That Sow Dissent Among Muslims Will Themselves Be Harmed
That same day, Khamenei’s office also posted these statements to his Facebook page in English: “Unfortunately, some Muslim governments ignorantly fuel the conflicts; they do not realize that fueling these conflicts ignites a fire whose flames will seize all of them. This is what the arrogant powers seek: A war between two groups of Muslims.
“Supporting takfiri groups with the aim of fueling the conflicts among Muslims has been intensified over the last three or four years, with a wave of Islamic Awakening sweeping some Islamic and Arabic countries, in order to affect the Islamic awakening. Ayatollah Khamenei, January 19, 2014.”
President Rohani: “Those Who Believe They Will Remain Immune To The Sword Of Terrorism That Kills Innocents Are Gravely Mistaken”
At the International Conference for Islamic Unity in Tehran on January 18, 2014, President Hassan Rohani said: “We should devote all our efforts to prevent the ongoing bloodshed among the nation of Islam that is being carried out on hollow pretexts, by those who say ‘there is no god but Allah and Muhammad is His Messenger’ yet create schism and a gulf [between the Sunnis and Shi’ites] using the ugliest of weapons, the weapon of heresy. These are not friends of the Sunna or the Shi’a. They are the enemies of Islam, the Koran, and the Prophet [Muhammad]… If any government believes that by strengthening the terrorists it can topple some [other] government in this region and increase its regional influence and power, it is sorely mistaken. Anyone who digs a pit for his brother will fall into that same pit. Those who believe they will remain immune to the sword of terrorism that kills innocents are gravely mistaken…”
The Religious Aspect: Ayatollahs Call To Unite Against Wahhabism; The Koran Is Against The Wahhabis And We Need Fatwas Against Them
On January 15, 2014, Ayatollah Naser Makarem Shirazi said: “Wahhabism is a tool for the enemies, and Muslims should stay away from the heretical Wahhabism… The disagreements and conflicts among Muslims have today risen to an unprecedented level. In Syria, Egypt, Iraq, Yemen, and Bahrain… the heretical Wahhabism is the chief cause of conflict. For hundreds of years, Shi’ites, Sunnis, Alawites, and Christians lived together in Syria, but when they [i.e. Wahhabi elements] entered [the arena] – look at the wars and bloodshed that began. Several Arab countries have become tools for the U.S. and Israel.”
In a January 19, 2014 speech at the Islamic Unity conference in Tehran, Ayatollah Mohammad Hassan Akhtari, secretary-general of the Ahl Al-Bayt World Assembly, which is subordinate to to Khamenei’s office, said: “Wahhabism sent the takfiris to fight the Muslims, and Islamic clerics should take responsibility in light of the current crimes [being perpetrated] in Islamic societies and should call for unity in society, come out against the misguided fatwas that are being issued, and stand fast against the accusations being levelled at the Prophet [Muhammad] and against Muslim oppression.”
On February 2, 2014, Ayatollah Akhtari told the official Iranian news agency IRNA that the Ahl Al-Bayt World Assembly had sent letters to Shi’ite and Sunni clerics in Pakistan, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Malaysia, as well as to the president of Indonesia, calling on them to support Shi’ites around the world and stand fast against the Wahhabi and takfiri circles. He added that in accordance with the orders issued by both the Imam (i.e. Ayatollah Ruhollah) Khomeini, the founder of Iran’s Islamic Revolution, and Supreme Leader Khamenei, Iran has no intention of repaying the Wahhabis in kind (i.e. with terrorist attacks) and added: “The Salafi and takfiri circles do not accept their Sunni brothers, let alone the Shi’ites. They spill the blood of Muslims and are like a cancerous tumor in the Islamic world. Wahhabism and the takfiris are the handiwork of the arrogance, and we must use the media and hold international conferences to tell the world about their evil goals.”
In a January 30 conference in Isfahan, the director of Khamenei’s office, Ayatollah Mohammad Mohammadi-Golpayegani, said: “The greatest danger threatening Islam today is the existence of takfiris, since with their fatwas they proclaim Shi’ites to be inferior to [even] the Jews and Christians, and strive for Muslim infighting.”[7] Khamenei’s representative in Pakistan, Ayatollah Abul Fazl Bahauddini, said in a speech in Qom: “King ‘Abdallah’s grandson has announced that Saudi Arabia’s budget to fight the Shi’a and Islamic Iran this year is equal to the entire budget of three Arab countries.” He added, “They have expanded Wahhabi [activity] for this purpose.”
Ayatollah Mohammad Taqi Mesbah-e Yazdi said in a January 23 speech to Defense Ministry officials during Islamic Unity Week: “[In the time of] the Third Caliph [Uthman], the Caliph’s secularism, gang wars, discrimination, and nepotism angered the masses and eventually led to his assassination… [Today’s] takfiri Wahhabis are the fruit of the same trees, [those] who abandoned God after the death of the Prophet [Muhammad].”
On January 19, 2014, Ayatollah Nouri Hamedani said: “The Muslims should strengthen their defense and military industries so that the faithful can stand fast against the enemies. The Koran mentions that the infidels, Jews, hypocrites [i.e. the Iranian oppositionist group Mojahedin-e Khalq], and Zionists are your enemies. As you see, today a deviant and extremist sect known as Wahhabism, and the takfiris, are working for the enemies of Islam.” On February 2, 2014, Hamedani reiterated: “According to the Koran, the infidels, hypocrites, and Zionists are the enemies of the house of faith… We always must struggle against the infidels headed by America and Britain, the traitors, and the Zionists, and must be aware of their plans and of the fact that we cannot reach an agreement with them… Nowadays the takfiris, who enjoy the support of Saudi Arabia, have also joined our enemies. Saudi Arabia is using its income from its gas and petroleum to fight the Shi’ites, and is a tool of America.”
Ayatollah Mohsen Araki, secretary-general of the World Forum for Proximity of Islamic Schools of Thought, which is subordinate to Khamenei’s office, appeared on Iran’s Arabic-language Al-Alam TV and called on Saudi Arabia to stop its terrorism in the region: “If Saudi politicians so desire, they can prevent the influence and growth of takfiri elements in several countries in the region, just as they successfully prevented takfiri and terrorist activity in their own country… The enemies of Saudi Arabia [meaning the Shi’ites in Iran and Iraq] do not support terrorism. If they did, Shi’ites in Iraq could send many terrorists across the border [from Iraq] into Saudi Arabia. But we see that [instead] terrorists emerge in many areas where it is in Saudi Arabia’s interest to spread terrorism.”
On February 6, Ayatollah Shirazi discussed the issue of the Wahhabis, saying: “They spill the blood of the oppressed and the innocent with their particular perception of the Koran, while, based on the Koran, we can prove that their actions are mistaken.” He added that the Wahhabis “create false pretenses under which to kill others by selectively interpreting [Koranic] verses…”
Ayatollah Hamedani noted in late January 2014: “One Koranic recommendation is to identify the enemy, his proxies, and his helpers. Today we can call Saudi Arabia and Qatar the proxies of the arrogance [i.e. the U.S.], which plunders the lives and property of Muslims by means of the takfiris.” During a January 20 meeting with Tunisian Grand Mufti Hamda Sa’id, Hamedani said: “The global arrogance and its satellites see that their status is in danger, and have therefore united to create conflict and confrontations among the nations of Islam in order to prevent this. The current rulers, including Al-Saud [in Saudi Arabia], Aal Khalifa [in Bahrain], and Al-Nahyan [in the UAE], are all puppets of the arrogance and are therefore standing fast against their own peoples.”
At a January 30 conference in Qom, Assembly of Experts member and religious seminaries director Ayatollah Hashem Hosseini Bushehri said: “The takfiris and Wahhabism are the height of fitna in Islamic societies… The takfiris behead Muslims in the name of Islam. The world today sees how Muslims oppress each other in the name of the religion. The enemy has labored very diligently on this matter, and is united in its action to create conflict among Muslims.”
On January 25, 2014, the daily Jomhouri-ye Eslami, which is close to the religious seminaries of Qom and to Hashemi Rafsanjani, called on jurisprudents from various Islamic schools to issue a joint fatwa actually declaring the takfiri stream officially heretical, saying that this would enable Muslims to work together against the takfiris and prevent a dark future for Muslims: “The takfiri stream is not only a criminal circle that kills its opponents and enslaves and sells their women, destroys their homes, loots their property, and slaughters their children. [Rather,] the members of this stream see all their steps as jihad in the path of Allah. Every crime they commit is accompanied by the saying ‘Allah Akbar’; therefore, they should be seen as nothing more than termites working against Islam who gradually eat away at the religion of God and will leave nothing if they can…
“The warnings of Leader [Khamenei] at the Islamic Unity conference that the takfiri stream is a great danger to the Islamic world [reflects] an important reality that cannot be overlooked… The duty to struggle against the takfiri stream is an historical mission placed on the shoulders of the leaders of the Islamic states and of the clerics, academics, revolutionaries and thinkers. This mission will be complete when clerics from various schools in Islam issue a joint fatwa questioning the Islam of the takfiris and explaining in detail the fate of those who have turned to the weapon of takfir.”
Branches Of The Iranian Regime Call For A Shi’ite Reaction Against Saudi Arabia
IRGC: “The Operations Of The Al-Saud Family Demand A Decisive And Crushing Response”; “The Saudi Mercenaries’ Assassinations Of Iranian Diplomats Allow Iran To Reserve The Right To Carry out Any Kind Of Retaliatory Operation”
A January 26, 2014 article titled “The Insane Suicide of the Al-Saud” in the IRGC weekly Sobh-e Sadeq stated: “Today, the aid in money, ammunition, and ideology that Saudi Arabia is giving to the terrorists of Al-Qaeda, who are a problem for most of the countries in the region, is no longer concealed. The hands of the Al-Saud family [which is] behind the crimes of these murderous terrorist groups are an open [secret], to the point where these days defending this family has become difficult even for its Western and Zionist supporters. Some of the politicians and heads of state in the region have publicly called Saudi Arabia responsible for the crimes of Al-Qaeda in their countries and in the region. Others, like Iraq, Iran, and Syria, have sent documents to the international organizations showing that the Saudis have a hand in Al-Qaeda’s explosions and crimes…
“Also with regard to Iran, the regional anti-Iran operations carried out by Al-Qaeda terrorists who are identified with the Al-Saud family are very clear. The assassination of Iran’s cultural attaché in Lebanon and of the Iranian diplomat in Yemen were two operations on which the handprint of the Saudis was very obvious. It appears that Saudi Arabia is no longer hiding its [once-]concealed hostility [towards Iran]. Some time ago, it was even reported that the Al-Saud family had asked the U.S. and the Zionists to attack Iran. [Also, it was] the firm opposition of Saudi Arabia, along with the U.S., [that led to] the rescinding of the invitation extended by U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon to Iran to participate in the anti-Iran Geneva 2 conference alongside Syria.
“It appears that these anti-Iran operations by the Al-Saud family require a decisive and crushing response – a response that will cause the Al-Saud family to regret its continuing hostility to Iran… The Al-Saud family’s public suicide today, by means of its interference in the countries of the region and its public support for the terrorists of Al-Qaeda, attests to the weakness and the waning of this family. The truth is that this family is now facing extensive problems and popular protests, not only in the region but on its own soil. This development has led the Saudi leaders to interfere in the [affairs of] several countries in order to distract local and international public opinion from what is happening in Saudi Arabia itself.
“But this attempt has in no way helped this family to suppress and obscure the civil protests of the Saudi people. The discovery of the Al-Saud family’s involvement in the crimes of the Al-Qaeda terrorists with whom it is identified has evoked protest from other countries – and Saudi Arabia will pay a heavy price as a result.
“Saudi mercenaries’ assassination of Iranian diplomats allows Iran to reserve the right to carry out any kind of reprisal operation. The Al-Saud family must understand the painful reaction [to come] following the operations that it has carried out. At the same time, Iran’s diplomatic and judicial apparatuses must present to the international courts – with help from Russia, Syria, and Iraq – the documents proving the Al-Saud involvement in the crimes and explosions in the region. This is so that the Saudi people and the Islamic world will forever be saved from the violent and inhuman ideas of the Wahhabism of Al-Qaeda and of their tyrannical masters, the Al-Saud family. All the signs point to the end of the rule of the Al-Saud family.”
In another January 26 article, titled “The Takfiri Terrorism Is A Wahhabi Gift To The Arrogance [i.e. the U.S.],” Sobh-e Sadeq called for a firm Shi’ite response to Saudi Arabia: “It is inconceivable that the takfiri terrorism is being carried out by only one country; such terrorism has to be carried out with the cooperation of a group whose members all benefit from it…
“The Syrian army’s relative takeover of the regions of conflict, and this army’s upper hand there, are a positive sign of the hope for a military victory that must be expanded. The countries supporting Syria, and particularly the Muslim countries which are endangered today, and tomorrow, by the takfiri terrorism, must show great determination on this issue, and must help Syria. If the takfiri terror movement is defeated, the ground will be prepared for an Islamic awakening movement, [that will move] in the direction of the reactionary countries [i.e. the Gulf states, Saudi Arabia, etc.]; the removal of several of them, or fundamental changes in their [centers of] power, will [soon] be a fait accompli…
In a February 8, 2014 conference, Ayatollah Muhammad Hassan Akhtari, a senior official in Khamenei’s office, called upon the Shi’ites in Yemen to tighten their ties with Iran in order to overcome the Wahhabi pressure they are facing: “In the era of [former Yemeni president] ‘Ali ‘Abdallah Saleh, we wanted to form strong ties with the Zaidis [a Shi’ite sect] in Yemen, but it was impossible. These problems still persist. The Shi’ites in Iran need relations with Iran because the Wahhabi pressure [on them] is growing, and [the Wahhabis] are even using funds in attempt to get them to convert [to the Sunna]. But the Yemeni Shi’ites’ resistance to this is strong, and if they tighten their relations with Iran it will have considerable influence on their morale.”
Kayhan: “Actions To Rein In Terrorism Should Start On The Streets Leading To King ‘Abdallah’s Palace In Riyadh”; “Any Shi’ite Action Against Saudi Facilities And Centers Will Be Legitimate… Saudi Arabia Cannot Be Immune From The Ramifications Of Its Terror Operations”
In its February 4, 2014 editorial, the regime mouthpiece Kayhan wrote: “There has been a significant resurgence of terrorist actions in Iraq in the last two years. [These actions] are directly tied to the policy of Saudi Arabia, which wishes to topple the Syrian regime. The increase of terrorist activity in Iraq, along with the promotion of terrorist activity in Syria, shows that terrorism is once again linked to foreign intervention. In this sense, it can be said that the end of terrorist activity in Iraq, and especially in Al-Anbar province, will be directly linked to the defeat of Saudi Arabia’s anti-Syria policy. It can further be said that actions to rein in terrorism should start on the streets leading to King ‘Abdallah’s palace in Riyadh – otherwise, anti-terror action will encounter many difficulties…
“Many documents, some of which are even published in the Saudi media, indicate that ISIS terrorists rely on Saudi Arabia for its funding and arming. ISIS’s [increased] activity in Iraq indicates that this terrorist group has despaired of achieving results in Syria. Several news items published in recent days have confirmed [Kayhan’s] assessment that Saudi Arabia is attempting to cover for its defeat by the resistance axis in Syria by achieving results in Iraq…
“If the situation in Iraq deteriorates, it will be to the disadvantage of Saudi Arabia and its terrorist allies, because the [Iraqi] provinces bordering Saudi Arabia and most of those living on the Iraqi-Saudi border are Shi’ites, and they live near the Shi’ites in the eastern province of Saudi Arabia. If Saudi Arabia continues to equip and arm the terrorists of the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq (ISIS) and of several other groups like Ansar Al-Sunna, every operation that the Shi’ites will carry out against Saudi facilities and centers will be legitimate. In fact, contrary to Saudi Arabia’s assessments, the Kurds, the Shi’ites, and the Sunnis in Iraq, who owe the current [political] order in Iraq to agreements [reached] among themselves in 2004-2010, will not overlook the terror operations… From 2003 to this day, Saudi Arabia has fanned the terrorism in Iraq; according to statistics, over 300,000 victims from among the Iraqi people have been killed. Therefore, Saudi Arabia cannot be immune from the ramifications of its terror operations.”
“The main problem of classic armies is that they were established to deal with an enemy who fights them openly, and it takes time to get used to the dynamic conditions [of guerilla warfare]… However, starting in September 2012, the [Syrian] army adapted itself and slowly tipped the scale in its favor, after transforming its operational forces and increasing its intelligence capabilities… Currently, the Iraqi army is battling the same groups that the Syrian army did during March 2012-April 2013. The Iraqi army now benefits from the experience of the Syrian army. The Iraqi government and its army – at least from March 2012 – has seriously addressed the possibility that the events in Syria would recur in Iraq and has prepared to face them… Therefore, Saudi Arabia will soon taste defeat in Iraq as well…”
Kahyan: “Most Sunnis In The Region See Saudi Arabia As The Chief Element Undermining Security In The Islamic World”
The January 6 Kayhan editorial stated: “The concentration of forces called ISIS in Al-Anbar [in Iraq] is a clear sign that this organization has despaired of the developments in Syria and that the Syrian army has achieved an absolute victory over this organization and the Western and Arab countries that supported it… Many documents indicate that the Iraqi branch of Al-Qaeda – meaning Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi’s group [i.e. ISIS], which renewed its activity in Iraq’s Al-Anbar in March 2012 – enjoys substantial support from Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Turkey, and enjoys the intelligence and security cooperation of the U.S. and France. Saudi Arabia is trying to topple Nouri Al-Maliki’s government [in Iraq] and the Syrian regime by means of this organization… [However,] soon the resistance axis will achieve a grand and simultaneous victory in Iraq and Syria over terrorism and the Western front that supports it… Even now most Sunnis in the region recognize Saudi Arabia as the chief element undermining security in the Islamic world…”
Kayhan: Saudi Arabia And The Wahhabis Support Terrorist Groups Financially And Militarily
The Kayhan editorial on January 19, 2014, stated: “There is not even minimal doubt that Saudi Arabia –along with Wahhabism, which attacks the Islamic world and rejects authentic Muslim belief on [Saudi Arabia’s] behalf – has a strategic alliance with the West. Nobody questions that Saudi Arabia is the West’s main base in the Middle East after the Zionist regime… The results of the policy of the Al-Saud [royal] family and the results of the policy of the takfiri [groups] are not just identical but [also indicate] open Saudi support for takfiri steps in all Islamic countries. Saudi Arabia’s clear support for the takfiri Lashkar-e-Jhangvi in Pakistan, the paramilitary takfiri [militia] in Dagestan, ISIS in Iraq, [Jabhat] Al-Nusra’s takfiris in Syria, and the ‘Abdallah ‘Azzam [Brigades] takfiri group in Lebanon are only part of this. In this reality, the West’s hand in operating, supporting, and using these takfiri groups become totally apparent…
“The West completely supports Saudi Arabia and aspires to place Al-Saud at the head of the Islamic world. Saudi Arabia and the takfiri Wahhabis grant significant financial and armed support to terrorist [groups] like Al-Qaeda and its various factions. Takfiri measures are also aimed against the unity of the Islamic world, whereas in recent years they have not attacked any American or Israeli targets. Therefore, the takfiri Wahhabi stream and the West are one stream… which wishes to harm Muslim unity and save the West from perdition.
“If we look around we will see that the escalating terrorist actions in the Islamic world occurred during the Arab revolutions and the pinnacle of Islamic awakening. If we visit countries that have rid themselves, thanks to the Islamic awakening, of the evil of tyrannical regimes and [regimes] dependant [on the West], we will see that all of them without exception are struggling against the phenomenon of takfir. Takfir is fights Muslims in Libya, Egypt, Tunisia and other countries, while pretending to be the [real] Islam, and the West is attempting to restore the previous regimes in those countries…”
Iran’s Arabic-Language Al-‘Alam TV: Saudi Arabia Is Considered The Chief Supporter Of Armed Terrorist Groups In Syria; Saudi Arabia Has Armed Elements In Lebanon Trying To Spark Riots Using Terrorist Actions
An article posted January 22, 2014 on the Arabic-language Al-Alam TV website stated: “Currently, Saudi Arabia is considered the chief supporter of armed terrorist groups in Syria… Saudi Arabia did not like the Geneva [nuclear] agreement [with Iran]… Due to its strategic location, the Al-Anbar province in Iraq has always been a base of terrorist activity, mainly by ISIS, which was established with Saudi support…
“With the onset of the Iraqi army’s operation to banish terrorist forces from [Al-Anbar], Saudi media launched an extensive propaganda campaign to incite public opinion against the Iraqi government… Early last month, the Saudi king ordered to spark fitna in Lebanon. With a $3 billion bribe to the French president, he jumpstarted the project of forming a new [Lebanese] government, marginalizing Hizbullah, and starting a war against the resistance in Lebanon. Saudi Arabia set the condition that Hizbullah could not be part of the new government…
“In addition to interfering in Lebanon’s affairs by inciting the political streams, Saudi Arabia has armed elements in Lebanon who occasionally try to spark riots by means of terrorist actions. One example is Majed Al-Majed, the Saudi leader of the ‘Abdallah ‘Azzam Brigades terrorist group, who was responsible for the deadly blast near the Iranian embassy in Beirut. His sudden and questionable death several days after being arrested [in Lebanon] was another scandal for the leaders of Saudi Arabia.”
Regime Officials: Saudi Arabia Represents The Terrorist Front In The Region
On January 10, 2014, Khamenei advisor Rahim Safavi said: “By 2030 there will only be remnants of several monarchies in the Gulf. Some Arab countries have dispatched heretical elements to kill civilians in Iraq and Syria, but eventually those elements will attack them too… Some Arab countries that should be called Zionist operate as part of the Zionist policy: they kill the people in Iraq, Syria, and Bahrain, and operate completely within [the framework of] American goals. We warn them: Learn from the fate of the Shah, who also collaborated with Israel and the Americans. We say to them: The fate of the Shah will be your certain fate.”
On January 16, 2014, Iranian Deputy Chief of Staff Masoud Jazayeri said: “Saudi Arabia is responsible for most of the fighting in the region.”
In a January 31 interview with ISNA, Khamenei’s representative to Sistan-Baluchistan province Abbas Ali Soleimani said: “Today, Wahhabism – the chief disseminator of Salafi and takfiri ideology in the world – is unfortunately funded from Najd and the Hizaj [Saudi Arabia]. This ideology is like a cancerous tumor in the mind of the Islamic world – i.e., Medina and Mecca – and all clerics should stand against the takfiris to uproot this tumor from Islamic society. It is not just the Shi’ites who are in conflict with these enemies.”
Judiciary deputy head Hojatoleslam Raisi said in a February 1 speech that the enemy is trying to divert the Islamic awakening in the region from its path and divide the Muslims: “The triumvirate of Britain, Israel and America, together with Saudi Arabia – which is the greatest basis of hope for the enemies and of despair for the believers – spreads the takfiri streams that operate against [Islamic] values and supports unhealthy governments with money, power and wealth.”
At a Tehran meeting with Syrian Grand Mufti Ahmad Badreddin Hassoun, Majlis National Security and Foreign Policy Committee chairman Ala Al-Din Boroujerdi said: “Wahhabi-minded takfiri and terrorist groups in Syria serve the interests of the Muslims’ enemies… Takfiri groups are used as a tool by enemies of Islam and they seem to lack a true understanding of Islam.”
Previously, on January 14, 2014, Boroujerdi told the Majlis website: “The U.N. secretary-general should examine Saudi Arabia’s role in regional terrorist activities… The Al-Saud family supports takfiri terrorists in Syria, Iraq and Lebanon, and the U.N. should [pressure] the Saudi government so that the Al-Saud family changes its policy and attitude. This ongoing policy and the transformation of the region into a place of crisis is not helpful to Saudi Arabia, the Islamic world, the Arab world or the region.”
Former Iranian ambassador to France Sadegh Kharazi said: “Iran is unofficially fighting Saudi Arabia outside [the Saudi] borders… Saudi Arabia is the most significant element sabotaging Iran’s relation-building with the West. Nowadays Bandar [bin Sultan, head of Saudi Arabia’s National Security Council,] undermines stability and security in the region and is attempting to curb Iran’s increasing regional power by supporting extremists… Every step taken by Saudi Arabia today is contrary to Iran’s national interests.” In an interview with an Iranian website on January 18, 2014, former Iranian ambassador to Mexico, Guatemala, and Australia Mohammad Hassan Ghadiri Abyaneh, said: “Assassinating Iranian diplomats is one of the goals of the takfiri terrorists and the evil forces like the Zionist regime. Since Bandar bin Sultan was appointed Saudi espionage and intelligence chief, these crimes have increased and are no longer confined to Iran and the rest of the Islamic world, but now reach Russia as well. As long as Bandar bin Sultan is alive, these assassinations and crimes will continue. He can even continue these crimes in order to seize power in Saudi Arabia and eliminate his rivals within the Saudi royal family as well.”
Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, discussing the assassination of an Iranian diplomat in Yemen, told Fars on January 20, 2014: “We warned all parties that support heretical groups in the region: do not play with fire.” He stressed that “several elements that support heretical groups in the region, alongside the Yemeni government, are responsible [for the assassination].”[33]
Majlis member Morteza Hosseini said that Saudi Arabia is portraying a cruel image of Islam with the backing of the U.S. by supporting regional terrorism: “Saudi Arabia is the key element in supplying [weapons to] and supporting the terrorist groups in the region.”
Majlis National Security and Foreign Policy Committee Spokesman Hossein Naqavi Hosseini said: “The petrodollars of some regional governments are in the pockets of Takfiri terrorists, Salafis, and extremist groups… Saudi Arabia’s support for Takfiris in Syria, the terrorist activities in Iraq, Lebanon, Pakistan, and Russia, and even some European countries such as Serbia and Bosnia, shows that a great threat [is jeopardizing] the region’s security.”
On January 6, 2014, the IRGC weekly Sobh-e Sadegh wrote: “Arab countries like Saudi Arabia aspire to establish puppet governments, and have implanted governments in Iraq and even in Syria and Lebanon that will obey only their demands in order to cover up their own crushing defeats in the region and proudly display their guardianship over Arab countries.”
In a January 20, 2014 article titled “Saudi Arabia’s Failed Attempt To Syrianize Iraq,” Sobh-e Sadegh claimed that Saudi Arabia is destabilizing Iraq in order to pressure Hizbullah and Iran to leave Syria, after failing to win the conflict there: “The destabilization and conflicts in the past three weeks in the cities of the Al-Anbar province in Iraq… are identical to what is happening in Syria, and to some extent in Lebanon as well… When it could not achieve even a minimal victory against the defenders of the Syrian regime, Saudi Arabia tried to pressure Hizbullah and Iran in Lebanon and significantly destabilized Iraq in order to cause the withdrawal of Hizbullah and the Shi’ite forces from Syria… The events in Iraq and the destabilization in Al-Anbar, as well as [Saudi Arabia’s] operation of Al-Qaeda, clearly indicate Saudi Arabia’s regional project in Iraq, Syria and Lebanon. In these three countries, Saudi Arabia relies on terrorists and Al-Qaeda circles and has no popular support.”
In a January 4 column in the daily Tehran-e Emrooz, Hassan Hanizadeh, a pundit close to ideological regime circles, wrote: “Saudi Arabia pays millions of dollars every month to the heads of some tribes that oppose Nouri Al-Maliki’s [Iraqi] government in the Al-Anbar, Mosul, and Saladin [provinces] in order for them to expand demonstrations and protests. Unfortunately, over the past year, some tribes carried out close cooperation with Al-Qaeda and takfiri terrorism circles, which exacerbated the lack of security in Shi’ite regions in Iraq. Saudi Arabia and Qatar, as well as [Iraq’s Sunni vice-president] Tariq Al-Hashemi and sheikhs identified with the previous Iraqi regime, [which was Sunni], played a devastating part in triggering the events in Al-Anbar. Saudi Arabia and Qatar’s purpose is to prevent the establishment of a democratic regime that relies on the votes of the Iraqi majority, thus denying this majority the right to participate in determining its national fate.”
On January 21, 2014, Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Marziyeh Afkham said that Iran intends to submit a complaint against Saudi Arabia to international bodies.
Rafsanjani And His Associates: Saudi Arabia Supports Extremist Forces But Dialogue Must Nevertheless Be Promoted
Expediency Council head and Khamenei rival Hashemi Rafsanjani, along with several Foreign Ministry officials who are working to improve Iran’s relations with its neighbors, were the only ones to call for dialogue with Saudi Arabia when criticizing it.
Hashemi Rafsanjani To Entekhab Website: Both Sides Are Responsible For The Crisis
In an interview on January 8, 2014 with the website Entekhab, which is associated with his supporters, Rafsanjani said that Saudi Arabia supports extremist forces in the region and warned that bilateral relations are at an all-time low. However, he said that both sides are responsible for the crisis:
Entekhab: “In light of the escalating conflict in Syria and Iraq, and the increased monetary and material support for Salafis and Takfiris, how do you see Saudi Arabia’s role in these actions?”
Rafsanjani: “Even now, Saudi Arabia is supporting these extremist forces in those areas.”
Entekhab: “I think that relations between Iran and Saudi Arabia were never this tense.”
Rafsanjani: “Yes. They are very tense right now.”
Entekhab: “Do you think that this is a result of our extremists or [those] on the other side?”
Rafsanjani: “Both sides.”
In a January 19 speech at the Islamic Unity conference in Tehran, Rafsanjani called for rising above differences and promote dialogue: “[The argument between the Shi’a and Sunna] over who was or was not the first Caliph is an historic issue that will not benefit us in any way. The question of how they wash their hands and feet before prayer and how they pray is not a reasonable [basis for] conflict… The signs of the devastation caused by this conflict in the Islamic world are gradually taking insane form, and if the disasters we witness on the news are true, we must weep over the situation we are in…
“Had the Islamic world obeyed the Koran, it would not have been in this situation. The nation of Islam represents one quarter of the world’s nations and consists of 60 independent countries as well as many groups and populations in non-Islamic countries. The best divine assets are in the hands of the Muslims. Therefore, even today this nation can be the world’s greatest superpower…”
Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said during a visit to Lebanon in the first half of January 2014 that Iran is prepared to launch a dialogue with Saudi Arabia for regional peace and security. During the Munich Security Conference on February 2, 2014, Zarif repeated his call for a dialogue with Saudi Arabia and cooperation that would benefit both countries: “We have more commonalities than differences. Iran is ready to launch a dialogue with Saudi Arabia.”
Deputy Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian told Mehr on January 22, 2014: “We have information according to which the recent attacks on the Iranian embassy in Beirut, Iranian technitians in Iraq, and the diplomat in Sanaa, [Yemen,] were a series of coordinated actions and were carried out by takfiri and terrorist streams. However, there is a good chance that some foreign elements were behind these actions… Iran is well aware of Saudi Arabia’s important role in the region and the Islamic world. We hope to witness productive stances and steps by Saudi Arabia and an affirmative response to Rohani and Zarif’s initiative [for dialogue].”
The head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI), Ali Akbar Salehi, also reiterated Tehran’s desire to improve relations with Saudi Arabia during a meeting in early February 2014 with the Saudi secretary-general of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), Iyad Ameen Madani: “We hope Iran and Saudi Arabia will make serious efforts to revive ties and [restore] the lost trust… We in Iran insist on boosting relations with Saudi Arabia… Good Iran-Saudi ties could be significant and effective for the entire world.”

*A. Savyon is Director of MEMRI’s Iranian Media Project; Y. Mansharof, E. Kharrazi, and Y. Lahat are Research Fellows at MEMRI.

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The 10 horns are Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Sudan, Libya, Lebanon, Iraq, Iran, and Turkey. When Israel is driven into the Negev, then Saudi Arabia along with Egypt are conquered by the Greater Syria Mahdi, and many other Islamic countries will quickly petition to join his growing Caliphate.

Daniel 7:24-27 – And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise: and another shall rise after them; and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings. [25] And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time. [26] But the judgment shall sit, and they shall take away his dominion, to consume and to destroy it unto the end. [27] And the kingdom and dominion, and the greatness of the kingdom under the whole heaven, shall be given to the people of the saints of the most High, whose kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions shall serve and obey him.

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Middle East Media Review Institute

Pakistani Dailies: Saudi Arabia Has Asked Pakistan To Dispatch Two Army Divisions To The Kingdom

Special Dispatch No. 5369

February 10, 2014

According to the Urdu-language daily Roznama Naya Akhbar, Saudi Arabia has asked Pakistan to dispatch two divisions of its army (some 30,000 troops) to the kingdom as part of a bilateral defense agreement currently being formulated between the two countries. The report has it that Pakistani Chief of Army Staff Gen. Raheel Shareef is currently in Saudi Arabia to promote the agreement. It also mentioned that there may be progress on Pakistan’s sale of JF-17 Thunder fighter planes and Al-Khalid tanks to Saudi Arabia.

The daily Roznama Ummat stated that the two Pakistani divisions will train Saudi troops. It mentioned that Pakistani troops have been deployed in Saudi Arabia in the past, but later the Americans began training the Saudi forces instead, which led to cultural conflicts. The daily speculated that Saudi Arabia may be interested not only in Pakistan’s military assistance, but also in playing a role in the talks with the Taliban.

It should be noted that senior Saudi officials recently made visits to Pakistan, which were reported in both the Saudi and the Pakistani press. On January 6, 2014, Saudi Foreign Minister Sa’ud Al-Faisal made an official two-day visit to Islamabad “to strengthen bilateral relations” between the two countries. At a press conference held upon the visit’s conclusion, he spoke of thwarting the schemes of those seeking to spoil the relations between Saudi Arabia and Pakistan. Hinting at Iran, he called to fight any attempts by external elements to exploit the security vacuum in Afghanistan and expand their influence among the Afghani people in order to kindle sectarian strife. On January 20, 2014 Saudi Deputy Defense Minister Prince Salman bin Sultan bin ‘Abd Al-‘Aziz visited Pakistan as well, and met with the Pakistani Chief of Staff. The two discussed the bilateral relations between the countries and deepening the military cooperation between them. According to reports, yet another senior Saudi official – Saudi Crown Prince and Defense Minister Prince Salman bin ‘Abd Al-‘Aziz – is to visit to Pakistan on February 15-17 and meet with its prime minister and president to sign defense and security agreements.

Pakistan’s Minister of Interior, Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan, told the Saudi daily ‘Okaz that Pakistan’s prime minister is interested in enhancing the ties with Saudi Arabia and elevating them to the level of a strategic partnership in all areas – political, economic and military – following the chill that sadly occurred in the bilateral relationship in the past five years. He added that Saudi Arabia’s security and stability were Pakistan’s security and stability, and vice versa.

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Egypt & Saudi Arabia set themselves up to fall to Antichrist Mahdi

To become part of the long desired Caliphate of a Mahdi Antichrist

Egypt and Saudi Arabia will fall After Israel is driven into the Negev

Mahdi will be Aided by Internal Terrorists in all Countries he Attacks

Mahdi & Caliphate are eventually destroyed at battle of Armageddon

This Final battle will end the Gentile Age With Christ’s Second Advent!

I have taught this scenario for more than 35 years at Dardanelle MBC!

Please Consider the 2007 Blog Associated With It After the 2 Excerpts!

February 19, 2014

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Begin Excerpt 1 from Al-Monitor

Israel Waits for Egypt to Deal with Terrorists in Sinai

Ben Caspit

(Al-Monitor)

As long as Morsi was in power in Egypt, Hamas in Gaza was the apple of the Egyptian regime’s eye. The Muslim Brotherhood saw itself as Hamas’ big brother. They cooperated closely.

Yet one day it was all over. From Gen. Sisi’s standpoint, Hamas is the enemy – an ally of Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis, which claimed responsibility for the bombing of a bus of tourists from South Korea, just across from the Taba Hilton Resort in Sinai.

According to several Israeli intelligence assessments, Hamas leaders in Gaza are unable to leave the Strip.

Meanwhile, Israel and Egypt updated the security protocol of their long-standing peace accord.

The Egyptian army consists of 11 regular battalions, a much larger order of battle than permitted in the accord. It includes a beefed-up armored battalion, a helicopter-gunship squadron, and quite a few commando forces.

Provided they are used to the fullest extent, these forces should be enough to vanquish terrorism, but that has yet to happen. Sisi doesn’t want to take any chances before assuming the presidency and stabilizing his regime.

Egyptians make do with laying siege on areas suspected of terrorist activity, gathering intelligence and carrying out pin-point operations.

Begin Excerpt 2 from Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs/Daily Alert

The Impending Clash between Iran and Saudi Arabia
Jonathan D. Halevi

In 1987, Ayatollah Khomeini declared that Mecca was in the hands of a “band of heretics.” For the current Iranian leadership, Khomeini’s remarks remain authoritative and frame the way Iran views Saudi Arabia. In January 2014, Frederic Hof, a former adviser to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, disclosed during a congressional hearing that he heard from the Iranians that they viewed Saudi Arabia as their primary enemy, and not the U.S. or even Israel.

In Riyadh’s eyes, Iran remains the most serious security challenge to the stability and territorial integrity of the Saudi kingdom. Saudi Arabia is preparing to purchase an atomic bomb “off the shelf” from Pakistan in order to create deterrence against Iran. Iran’s determination to persist with its nuclear program and the Saudi determination to acquire a nuclear shield may drag the Middle East into a nuclear arms race.

Whatever understandings might be reached between Iran and the West on the nuclear file, Iran has no intention of retreating from its efforts to establish its hegemony in the Middle East. Lt. Col. (ret.) Jonathan D. Halevi, a senior researcher at the Jerusalem Center, is a former advisor to the Policy Planning Division of the Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs. (Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs)

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Land of Magog Choice Will Lead to Armageddon Defeat by God!
BELIEVERS, HAVE NO FEAR, YOU WILL NOT BE HERE!
December 27, 2007
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I discovered, as I traveled to more than 600 worldwide sites, presenting my lecture series, “A Geological Exposition of the Second Coming of Christ,” many believers have a great dread, a horrifying fear, of the battle of Armageddon. I found quite a few who did not come to see and hear the lecture series because, “I just don’t want to hear about all that tribulation stuff.” I recall some who said, “Preacher, that scares the Hades out of me.” Others said, “That will scare our young people.” I have never feared the wrath of God since I understood the completeness of my salvation. I fear the chastisement and scourging of God, but I do not fear his wrath in the tribulation period, because I will not be here when his vials of wrath are poured out, and I certainly won’t the here at Armageddon. However, I will be coming back with him to see the end of it in the air at his Second Event. There is a difference between God’s punishment by scourging and chastisement, when they are compared with His wrath.
Hebrews 12:5-8 – And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him: [6] For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth. [7] If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not? [8] But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.
I Thessalonians 5:9 – For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,
Revelation 16:1,16 – And I heard a great voice out of the temple saying to the seven angels, Go your ways, and pour out the vials of the wrath of God upon the earth. [16] And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon.
Jude 14 – And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints,
So, please read what follows for informational purposes, knowing you will no be here when God’s wrath is poured out on the earth.
There is no question in my mind that the events now transpiring in Russia, China, Europe, and the Middle East are definitely setting the stage for the final war of the Age of the Gentiles, which will eventually terminate with the Second Advent of Christ.
The prophecy of Ezekiel 38 is against a person and a land. The person is Gog, the Antichrist from that part of the once great Assyrian Empire, which extended itself to the immediate north of Israel. The two tribes of Meshech and Tubal occupied the two countries today known as Syria and Lebanon, and their descendants lived there at the time Micah and Isaiah wrote their prophecies. The land is the land of Magog, which is occupied by Russia today.
Ezekiel 38:1,2 – And the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, [2] Son of man, set thy face against Gog, the land of Magog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal, and prophesy against him,
When Gog, the Antichrist, asks the land of Russia, some three and one-half years after he drives Israel into the Negev, to come down and help him completely destroy Israel, Russia will come down in massive array at Armageddon.
Revelation 16:16 – And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon.
At that time the following destruction of all the armies coming against Israel from Europe, Eurasia, China, Asia, the Far East, and Africa, will meet the following fate at the hand of God. At Armageddon no one will be able to rescue the Antichrist Gog, or any of those who attempt to help him, from the wrath of God that awaits them.
Daniel 11:45 to 12:1 – And he shall plant the tabernacles of his palace between the seas in the glorious holy mountain; yet he shall come to his end, and none shall help him. [12] And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.
This scenario of Daniel 12:1 is also described in Ezekiel 38 and 39, as well as following Revelation 16:16.
Ezekiel 38:16 to 39:6 – And thou shalt come up against my people of Israel, as a cloud to cover the land; it shall be in the latter days, and I will bring thee against my land, that the heathen may know me, when I shall be sanctified in thee, O Gog, before their eyes. [17] Thus saith the Lord God; Art thou he of whom I have spoken in old time by my servants the prophets of Israel, which prophesied in those days many years that I would bring thee against them? [18] And it shall come to pass at the same time when Gog shall come against the land of Israel, saith the Lord God, that my fury shall come up in my face. [19] For in my jealousy and in the fire of my wrath have I spoken, Surely in that day there shall be a great shaking in the land of Israel; [20] So that the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts of the field, and all creeping things that creep upon the earth, and all the men that are upon the face of the earth, shall shake at my presence, and the mountains shall be thrown down, and the steep places shall fall, and every wall shall fall to the ground. [21] And I will call for a sword against him throughout all my mountains, saith the Lord God: every man’s sword shall be against his brother. [22] And I will plead against him with pestilence and with blood; and I will rain upon him, and upon his bands, and upon the many people that are with him, an overflowing rain, and great hailstones, fire, and brimstone. [23] Thus will I magnify myself, and sanctify myself; and I will be known in the eyes of many nations, and they shall know that I am the Lord. [1] Therefore, thou son of man, prophesy against Gog, and say, Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal: [2] And I will turn thee back, and leave but the sixth part of thee, and will cause thee to come up from the north parts, and will bring thee upon the mountains of Israel: [3] And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand. [4] Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou, and all thy bands, and the people that is with thee: I will give thee unto the ravenous birds of every sort, and to the beasts of the field to be devoured. [5] Thou shalt fall upon the open field: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord God. [6] And I will send a fire on Magog, and among them that dwell carelessly in the isles: and they shall know that I am the Lord.
Please note the destruction that is rained down by God on the land of Magog (Russia) during all this destruction in verse six. The same event is described immediately following Revelation 16:16.
Revelation 16:16-21 – And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon. [17] And the seventh angel poured out his vial into the air; and there came a great voice out of the temple of heaven, from the throne, saying, It is done. [18] And there were voices, and thunders, and lightnings; and there was a great earthquake, such as was not since men were upon the earth, so mighty an earthquake, and so great. [19] And the great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell: and great Babylon came in remembrance before God, to give unto her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath. [20] And every island fled away, and the mountains were not found. [21] And there fell upon men a great hail out of heaven, every stone about the weight of a talent: and men blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail; for the plague thereof was exceeding great.
The same event described in Daniel 11:45 to 12:1, Ezekiel 38:16 to 39:6, and Revelation 16:16 to 21, is also described in Mathew 24:21,22 and Revelation 19:11-21.
Matthew 24:21,22 – For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be. [22] And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect’s sake those days shall be shortened.
Revelation 19:11-21 – And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war. [12] His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his head were many crowns; and he had a name written, that no man knew, but he himself. [13] And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God. [14] And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean. [15] And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God. [16] And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS. [17] And I saw an angel standing in the sun; and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the fowls that fly in the midst of heaven, Come and gather yourselves together unto the supper of the great God; [18] That ye may eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of captains, and the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses, and of them that sit on them, and the flesh of all men, both free and bond, both small and great. [19] And I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse, and against his army. [20] And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone. [21] And the remnant were slain with the sword of him that sat upon the horse, which sword proceeded out of his mouth: and all the fowls were filled with their flesh.

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Russia’s Choice
THE JERUSALEM POST
December 20, 2007

Though Russia has not tabled a formal proposal yet, it is seeking to host some kind of Mideast peace conference, following Annapolis and the donors meeting for the Palestinians in Paris. Israel is known to be unhappy about the idea, while formally stating that it knows nothing of it.
The US, Europe, and Israel should nix this now, before it gets off the ground. Russia is on the wrong side of the peace equation and should be sent a strong signal that there is a price to pay for providing critical diplomatic cover and military assistance to rogue states.
Western relations with Russia are, obviously, delicate. Western leaders are reluctant to say no to Russia, since Russian cooperation is needed in the UN Security Council, and Russia could play an even more damaging role if it wanted.
At some point, however, the egregiousness of Russian behavior cannot be papered over. Russia not only built Iran’s Bushehr reactor over years of Western objections and provided air defences for Iran’s nuclear facilities, it has now shipped 82 tons of uranium fuel rods to Iran, leading to the expectation that Bushehr could be operational around the end of next year.
Russia claims that this is consistent with its own opposition to Iran developing nuclear weapons, since Iran has committed to returning spent fuel rods – which contain enough plutonium to produce bombs – back to Russia. The US has tried to make lemonade out of lemons by not objecting, and arguing that Iran now has no excuse for not shutting down its own enrichment program.
We must remember that in 1981, Israel destroyed Iraq’s French-built Osirak reactor, despite a similar agreement that it would be maintained under international safeguards. And the Israeli strike came just before fuel was supplied to the reactor, to avoid the further damage that would be caused by dispersed nuclear fuel.
In Iran’s case, as disturbing as are the implications of Bushehr itself, the operation of this site is actually among the less central proliferation threats. Iran is also building a “research” reactor at Arak that would produce much more plutonium and could be completed in the next few years. Most of all, there is Iran’s defiant race to master the process of uranium enrichment at Natanz – which has room for 60,000 centrifuges, according to Israeli Military Intelligence – and which could result in an indigenous capacity to produce its own nuclear arsenal.
Accordingly, it is not so much Bushehr itself that is the problem, but Russia’s decision to give that project a significant boost forward despite Iranian defiance regarding enrichment. What greater blow could have been dealt to the international sanctions campaign, which Russia voted for, than supplying fuel regardless of Iran’s compliance with mandatory UN Security Council resolutions?
If the Iranian regime succeeds in obtaining nuclear weapons someday, the government that history will hold most responsible will be Russia’s. A nuclear Iran would be a tremendous boon for all the radical Islamist forces in the region, such as Hamas, Hizbullah and al-Qaida. For this reason alone, the idea that Russia should be invited into a process designed to isolate and combat precisely these forces makes no sense. But that’s not all.
Far from joining in the international consensus that Hamas must be isolated, Russia is openly siding with Hamas. In Paris, at the donor conference that raised over $7 billion in pledges for the Palestinian Authority, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said: “Requiring special attention is the situation in the Gaza Strip, whose actual isolation hurts ordinary Palestinians. The worst may happen: the territory being turned into a ‘high security prison.'”
What does this mean, that Hamas should be even freer to attack Israel than it is now? Where is Moscow’s condemnation, at least on the level of lip service, of the constant missile attacks against Israeli civilians?
The truth is, based on its incredible behavior, Russia no longer belongs in the Quartet, or in the G8, for that matter. Moscow should not, in one moment, be allowed to run interference for the radical front attacking the West and in the next be treated as a responsible player and part of the West’s collective efforts to defend itself.
It is not as though Russia has had trouble choosing sides. Rather, it has chosen the wrong side. It is time that Russia’s choice had consequences.

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Take Heed Before The Message In Tribulation Trumpets – Part 4

February 18, 2014

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Part 2 was put up on February 13, 2014
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The Everlasting Gospel Has Been in the Seed From the Beginning.
It was God’s plan before he made Adam and a mystery in the O.T.
Paul shewed in N.T. how it would affect the dead and living Saved
John Revealed the Mystery would be Finished as Trump 7 Sounded
It Appears in Revelation 11 & Also in Parenthetical Revelation14
As the 1st woe begins the media airwaves will cry out a Warning
Archangel Michael stands up as Trump 7 blows and Warning Ends
All who Believed it will be Caught Up to be Judged by Jesus Christ!
Those Who Didn’t Believe it will be Judged on Earth by Wrath Vials!

Revelation 14:6 – And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people,

In Parts 1 to 3, I traced the Message of the Everlasting Gospel in Genesis 3:15 through Seth, Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and Judah. Moses and the Tent, or tabernacle, in the Wilderness, was a picture of the everlasting gospel of grace that the Seed would provide by being the only human who ever fulfilled the law of Moses, thereby being declared righteous as a man. Christ’s sacrifice, as an innocent righteous man, who had never once sinned, allowed God to be just and the justifier of those who accept his grace offer when they believe Christ was the total atonement for all of their sins. When Christ fulfilled the law he fulfilled it for all who would believe it was God’s grace covering for all sin, past, present, and future. The Seed’s sacrifice covered all the sins of believers in the past, who lived before the cross, and all the sins of those in the future. It covered the sins of all men from Adam to me to the last man who believes from the Garden of Eden to the end of the Seed’s reign of a thousand years.

Romans 3:23-28 – For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; [24] Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: [25] Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God; [26] To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus. [27] Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith. [28] Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law.

Genesis 49:10 – The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be.

The tabernacle, or tent, which had traveled with Moses and the children of Israel, since it was built by God’s instructions during the long exodus travels, was finally set up by Joshua at Shiloh in the promise land.

Joshua 18:1 – And the whole congregation of the children of Israel assembled together at Shiloh, and set up the tabernacle of the congregation there. And the land was subdued before them.

Shiloh was about 15 miles north of Ramah, and was the place of abode for the tabernacle from Joshua to the Prophet Samuel, where Samuel ministered as a child. From year to year, Israel went to the Shiloh tabernacle to worship.

I Samuel 1:3 – And this man went up out of his city yearly to worship and to sacrifice unto the Lord of hosts in Shiloh. And the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, the priests of the Lord, were there.

David brought the ark to Jerusalem after he drove out the Jebusites somewhere around 1000 B.C.

II Samuel 6:15 – So David and all the house of Israel brought up the ark of the Lord with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet.

The tabernacle, and everything in it, pictured the future Seed’s character, ministry, and God’s promises in him. The tabernacle at Shiloh was the earthly presentation of the character and work of the coming Seed, Christ Jesus. Shiloh was the symbolic name of the ruler who was to come from Judah, who would never lose his right to rule.

The Tabernacle or Tent in the Wilderness, which held the Holy of Holies Ark of the Covenant and all the other symbols of Christ in its Holy Place and Courtyard, was the embodiment, the earthly picture, the earthly symbol of Christ, From its initial construction the Tent, and all its associated symbolic contents, were carried by Israel during its many years of wandering. After Israel had finally come into the promise land, Joshua set up the Tabernacle in Shiloh.

Acts 7:38 – This is he, that was in the church in the wilderness with the angel which spake to him in the mount Sina, and with our fathers: who received the lively oracles to give unto us:

Hebrews 8:1-6 – Now of the things which we have spoken this is the sum: We have such an high priest, who is set on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens; [2] A minister of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, and not man. [3] For every high priest is ordained to offer gifts and sacrifices: wherefore it is of necessity that this man have somewhat also to offer. [4] For if he were on earth, he should not be a priest, seeing that there are priests that offer gifts according to the law: [5] Who serve unto the example and shadow of heavenly things, as Moses was admonished of God when he was about to make the tabernacle: for, See, saith he, that thou make all things according to the pattern shewed to thee in the mount. [6] But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises.

It is a better covenant because now the promised Seed has come and visibly manifested himself as God in the flesh, thereby allowing us to understand it was always God’s grace in him, by faith in his sacrifice, that was the basis of the unconditional covenant of Genesis 3:15.

Hebrews 9:11-15 – But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building; [12] Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us. [13] For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh: [14] How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God? [15] And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance.

Hebrews 8:10 – For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:

Romans 2:28,29 – For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh: [29] But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God.

I Peter 2:10 – Which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.

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