Iranian Nuclear Ambitions and Consequences of Not Getting It Right

Submitted by M. Tovey (United States), Jan 9, 2012 at 11:19

This is an interesting interpretation of what many in the west are now calling the 'end time scenario,' similar to that of certain Muslim prognostications (like yours) I have read over the last ten years or so. In that many in the west are using Hebrew Holy Scripture to undergird their premises as you do the Quran, certain 'triggers' that are being pointed to are not necessarily in 'facts at hand,' just as the perception that WMD's were never truly established as the real reason for entering Iraq. But the reality of Iraq is that, as it has been for centuries, Muslim; and the west has yet to completely understand the implications of just exactly what that means.

Your perception of a WWIII is acute; and somewhat accurate, even if not completely so. Israel is at the center of the conflict that will precipitate the events leading up to the world wide conflagration, but it is not evident to me that Iran will start it, though it is quite evident they are going to participate, to the utter dismay of the people of Iran, if not their ruling elite.

We differ on the order of events; and as we have discussed before, we differ greatly on the capacities of the individuals you mention. I'll not belabor that at this time; only let it be sufficient for me to say that of the ten or so things I have been looking for over the last ten years or so, nine are in place, the ninth being revealed in the last few months. You have dismissed the events leading up to the tenth so I'll not belabor that for you either.

There is a reason the west has to exaggerate what is going on (though I am not in concert with what they are promoting), for they generally have not understood why things are happening the way they are. For example, why after so many years of trying to obtain 'Palestinian' state hood are they now forced to consider the matter on a global scale? Why, after so many decades of dealing with secularist dictatorships in Muslim countries are the elements of the Muslim Brotherhood regaining their strength and influences at a time when things are so unstable? And from an American perspective, there are the political influences being misspent on an agenda most Americans have yet to understand? Strangely, if one dismisses the religious influences and cut to the truth of the Holy Bible, all of these have answers, answers that I rely upon and not the answers that the American government and others cannot provide.

Should there be an interdictive raid against Iranian nuclear ambitions? If we were to believe Iran, this would be premature. Yet we know also that certain situations are being considered for action as it is no secret that efforts on both sides are in preparation for certain contingent outcomes.

All these things remain to be seen; yet in the circumstances we have previewed, I will counter you and say that a nuclear response is inevitable, in the Holy Land, though not too many know where it will actually be happening. And that is a non-religious Biblical imperative.

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