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THE HEADLINE OF THIS MORNING DEKA FILE WAS CALLED TO MY ATTENTION BY MY FRIEND ANTOINNETTE. 

Arab world fears an Iran war may be impending…

Over the weekend the Iranians launched a satellite, which some military experts believe bolsters the nations ballistic missile capability to reach England or France. On top of this the United States moved three more war ships into the region. Is this just war games on our part or are we expecting a full scale war in the region? As the the DEBKA file refers to in an article in the Arabic daily Al Quds, which excoriates the actions of the Iranians as, “Presenting on a silver platter the justifications and pretexts for those (US & Israel) who want to drag the region down a dangerous slope.”

               Of course this is only one view of the looming battle that I believe is eminent. While the press and world are focused on the Iranians launching their satellite, it has been reported that Hezbollah, in southern Lebanon, is now 5 times stronger than it was in the 2006 war. Added to this is the Russians who have demonstrated that they are not a paper tiger, with their prosecution of the war in Georgia, (See my BLOG on this below) can and will use their military force to protect their interests. The Israeli’s are nervously monitoring the Iranians nuclear ambitions and know that at some point they must act. The Iranians who are of the Shia sect of Islam, await their Imam Madhi, who can only be ushered in during a time of Chaos. Mahmoud Amedinejhad has stated that he is willing to sacrifice a large portion of his nations population to bring this Islamic prophecy – which I believe is false – to fruition.

              Is this the final set up for the battle of Ezekiel 38 & 39? One dynamic is for certain, the region has become more destabilized in the last several months. What I find almost incredible is that most Americans have been lulled into believing that the Russia bear had changed. While some reforms have taken place we must remember that Mr. Putin has no regard for the sanctity of life – he was the head of the KGB. He is also an atheist and because of that world view that he embraces, their are no moral absolutes and certainly no Deity or ‘God’ to judge his actions. I would suspect that in Putin’s mind anything is permissible. One part of the Ezekiel prophecy that has always fascinated me was the idea the their would be a Hook in Russia’s jaw pulling them into the fray in the Middle East. With the Iranians buying weapons from the Russians, and Russia stating that it will back Iran if their is a war in the region, can the prophecy be far off from being fulfilled. Is this then the set up for what I believe is the Coming great deception?  Below is the full DEBKA story.

*                       *                     *    Arab world fears an Iran war may be impending DEBKAfile Exclusive Report       August 18, 2008, 1:05 PM (GMT+02:00)        USS Ronald Reagan DEBKAfile’s Middle East sources report that the Iranian satellite carrier space launch Sunday, Aug. 17, was prompted by a joint caution to Tehran from Saudi King Abdullah and Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak. After their meeting Saturday, the spokesman of the presidential palace in Cairo, Suleiman Awwad, said: Iran should not present on a silver platter the “justifications and pretexts for those [US and Israel] who want to drag the region down a dangerous slope.” This warning was interpreted by the London Arabic daily Al Quds as a warning to Tehran that an attack is impending by the US, some European nations and Israel. The article recalled the fate of Saddam Hussein “who didn’t adequately refute claims over Iraq’s supposed weapons of mass destruction.” Tehran immediately responded to the warning by launching the Safir satellite carrier into orbit, thereby exhibiting a ballistic missile capable of reaching outside the Middle East, as far as Britain and France, should they decide to join an American attack on Iran, as well as US military installations on that continent. Our military sources report that the war scare in Cairo and Riyadh also infected Kuwait. Last week, the small oil emirate placed its military on “war alert,” to avoid being caught off-guard by a possible conflict in the region. On Saturday, Kuwait boosted its naval force in the Persian Gulf to ward off a possible Iranian reprisal against its oil installations if attacked. The scare was fed by the impending arrival of the USS Theodore Roosevelt, the USS Ronald Reagan, and the USS Iwo Jima in the Persian Gulf to reinforce the US strike forces in the region, as first revealed by DEBKAfile on August 11. They are to join the USS Abraham Lincoln, which is patrolling the Arabian Sea opposite Iran, and the USS Peleliu, on beat in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden. This deployment would be the largest naval task force the US and its allies had massed in the region since the 1991 Gulf War.   A US Pentagon spokesman last week denied that these forces were gathering to impose a partial naval blockade on Iran, but declined to disclose their mission. The denial apparently failed to convince the rulers of Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Kuwait.

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