I Can’t tell the Hour when the last grain will drop down as War Begins!
But I am Sure the Islamic vs. Jewish War Is in a Phase of Drawing Nigh
And I believe the war is most likely to break out between 2014 & 2016
7 great mountains (Empires) have come and gone and Nr. 8 is Coming
All of These Evil Empires of Men have affected and/or afflicted Israel:
7 – Egyptian-Assyrian-Babylonian-Persian-Grecian-Roman-Umayyad
7th & 8th are both Islamic –Number 8 shall be Antichrist’s Caliphate
Revelation17:7,9,11-13 – And the angel said unto me, Wherefore didst thou marvel? I will tell thee the mystery of the woman, and of the beast that carrieth her, which hath the seven heads and ten horns. [9] And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth. [11]And the beast that was, and is not, even he is the eighth, and is of the seven, and goeth into perdition. [12] 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.
May 17, 2012
http://www.tribulationperiod.com/
Begin DEBKAfile Special Report
Iran drills first large-scale paratroop drops for offensive action
DEBKAfile Special Report
May 16, 2012, 9:31 AM(GMT+02:00)
Special operations units of the Iranian army and Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) Tuesday, May 14, began a two-day practice of offensive tactics, for the first time dropping large-scale forces from the air deep behind enemy lines. The many war games Iran has conducted until now focused on defenses of strategic and nuclear locations and repelling invaders.
This drill displayed its aggressive capabilities. Codenamed Ja’far Tayyar, it was staged in remote Khorasan near the Afghan border, so as not to expose the commando tactics it employed.
In announcing the exercise, Gholam-Ali Gholamian, Dep. Commander for Operations for the IRGC Ground Forces, cagily called it another routine exercise for “maintaining the preparedness and promoting the combat capability of units stationed in the region.”
DEBKAfile’s military sources disclose that there was nothing routine about it. The units taking part were not stationed in the region but flown in especially.
Western intelligence sources observing the exercise report that its offensive nature was evident: Air transports coming in from the rest of the country dropped large numbers of paratroopers and special forces; Air Force fighter-bombers practiced intense bombardments of small targeted locations; and helicopters drilled rapid transfers of forces between points and air cover for the units reaching the ground.
Monday, the Persian Gulf rulers invited to Riyadh by Saudi King Abdullah for a summit on the Iranian threat dwelt long and hard on the exercise and concluded the threat had been exacerbated and that Tehran had more in store for them than closing the Strait of Hormuz to oil traffic in the event of war. They saw special forces being prepared by Iran to strike deep inside their countries up to and including their oil-producing regions.
The exercise also served the ongoing trade of war signals between Washington and Tehran. Staging a special forces exercise not far from the US military presence in Afghanistan was meant as a rejoinder to US-led special forces maneuver taking place in Jordan across the border with Syria with the participation of 17 nations.
Iranian and Syrian media made much of the fact that the US-led war game was named Eager Lion 12 as a deliberate insult to Bashar Assad, whose name is the Arabic for Lion.
Begin Excerpt from MEMRI
Middle East Media Research Institute
Inquiry and Analysis Series
Report No. 837
May 15, 2012
Khamenei’s Aim at the Nuclear Talks
Securing the Survival of His Regime
By: A. Savyon*
Introduction
Although the fatwa of Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei on nuclear weapons does not exist (see MEMRI Inquiry and Analysis No. 825, “Renewed Iran-West Nuclear Talks – Part II: Tehran Attempts to Deceive U.S. President Obama, Sec’y of State Clinton With Nonexistent Anti-Nuclear Weapons Fatwa By Supreme Leader Khamenei,” April 19, 2012,
http://www.memri.org/report/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/6291.htm
The Iranian propaganda machine continues to mislead the West on this issue; in fact, former French premier Michel Rocard, who was in Tehran at the invitation of the Islamic Republic, welcomed the nonexistent fatwa.[1]
Furthermore, U.S. media continue to report that the Obama administration relied on this nonexistent fatwa as justification for renewing negotiations with Iran. For example, on May 12, 2012, David Ignatius wrote in The Washington Post that “President Obama sent a back-channel communication to Khamenei in March that his fatwa banning nuclear weapons would be a good starting point for negotiations.”[2]
Khamenei is using the nuclear talks, set to take place in Baghdad on May 23, 2012, as a tool to assure his survival. Throughout his 23 years in power, Khamenei has firmly secured his own personal survival and that of his regime domestically by eradicating the reformist stream, banning personal and ideological opponents such as Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, No. 2 man Hashemi Rafsanjani, and others while concentrating power in his own hands; enacting harsh economic measures such as eliminating subsidies; instituting overall suppression of the print and electronic media; and, now, building his image as an imam.
Iran’s Aim in the Nuclear Talks
The threat to the survival of the regime that Khamenei heads comes, according to his perception, only from without – first, by Western attack and political and economic sanctions due to Iran’s nuclear activity, and second, by the Arab Spring revolutions and the collapse of the Syrian regime, directly impacting the resistance axis, in addition to Iran’s loss of its grip on Hamas. Thus, Khamenei is now focusing all his efforts on ensuring his regime’s survival using the most effective tool to neutralize these threats: nuclear negotiations.[3]
As part of the preparations for the talks’ renewal on May 23, Iran is presenting demands focusing almost exclusively on securing its regime’s survival against Western threats:
1. Complete cessation of efforts by the West, and especially the U.S., to bring about democratic change in Iran, including guarantees as drawn up by Iranian researcher Mehdi Khalaji.[4] These include:
a. Stopping all American broadcasts in Farsi
b. Ending political and financial support to opposition groups
c. No American intervention in Iranian censorship of the Internet
2. The lifting of sanctions, particularly oil sanctions, which are severely harming the regime
3. An end to Western efforts to isolate Iran internationally.
In the nuclear area, Iran has repeatedly stressed that it is a nuclear country that already enriches uranium up to 20%, and that it has no intention of using its nuclear achievements for military purposes.[5]
Khamenei’s (nonexistent) fatwa is cited by regime spokesmen to prove this and to demonstrate their integrity.
Considering that guaranteeing the survival of the regime is Khamenei’s most important purpose in the nuclear talks – even more important than the nuclear issue itself – Khamenei has formulated a strategy for negotiation that strives to triumph over Iran’s negotiating partners in any scenario.
This means that if the West accepts Iran’s demands to stop instituting democratic change in the Iranian regime, Khamenei would boast a double achievement: He would ensure the survival of his regime, and he would also secure Iran’s status as a member of the nuclear club. Furthermore, he will have accomplished all this in exchange for Iran’s verbal assurance that it will not produce nuclear weapons – based on a fatwa that does not even exist.
However, if the West does not agree to the framework that Iran is attempting to impose, and does not accept its demand to cease threatening the regime’s survival – Iran will then be able to freely pursue its military nuclear efforts. Thus, Iran will continue to thwart any Western threat to the regime – following the North Korea paradigm.
*A. Savyon is director of the Iranian media project.
END NOTES
[1] Fars (Iran), May 14, 2012.
[2] The Washington Post, May 12, 2012.
[3] It should be mentioned that Khamenei is acting according to the historical precedent of Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi, who in 1968-71, in order to ensure international recognition of Iran’s status as a regional superpower, negotiated with Britain and agreed to relinquish Bahrain, which was not actually under his control but which had once belonged to the Persian Empire.
[4] http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/23644
[5] See, for example, a statement by Hossein Sheikh Al-Islam, advisor to Majlis speaker Ali Larijani, that Iran is coming to the Baghdad talks in a better position than before, because since the first round of talks in Istanbul took place, the Fordow facility has become operational, uranium has been enriched to 20%, and Iran has continued to manufacture third-generation centrifuges. Fars (Iran), May 13, 2012.
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