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Saturday, July 18, 2015

IRAN UPDATE: 7.17.15 - A Historic Nuclear Deal With Iran Has Been Reached!!! Now What?

A Historic Nuclear Deal With Iran Has Been Reached!!! Now What? - A. V. Rauf -
http://bibleprophecyfortoday.com/2015/07/16/a-historic-nuclear-deal-with-iran-has-been-reached-now-what/
 
In his speech yesterday, the president announced that the world was entering a time of peace and stability as a result of this nuclear deal.  "Today after two years of negotiation the United States together with the international community has achieved something that decades of animosity has not: a comprehensive long-term deal with Iran that will prevent it from obtaining a nuclear weapon,"  said the president.
 
As for Iran, in reference to the terms of  this deal, Iran can continue enriching uranium. They don't have to dismantle any of their nuclear facilities. Furthermore, they don't have to shut down their ballistic missile factories or dismantle any of their ballistic missiles. 
 
The one country that did not agree with this was........Israel. According to Benjamin Netanyahu this landmark Iran nuclear deal poses a threat to both Israel and the United States, 
 
"We think this is not only a threat to us. We think this is a threat to you as well," Netanyahu said, a day after Iran and six world powers, including the U.S., reached the historic agreement. "Iran has killed more Americans than anyone other than al Qaeda."
 
"They're going to get hundreds of billions of dollars to fuel their terror and military machine," he added. "This cash bonanza will fuel Iran's terrorism worldwide, its aggression in the region and its efforts to destroy Israel, which are ongoing."
 
"Iran is different. It's a zealot country," he said. "It's killed a lot of Americans. It's killing everybody in sight in the Middle East." Let us not forgot that Iran also is made up of Shi'ite Muslims who are staunch supporters of the Mahdi. The leadership fully believes that the main purpose of his government is to promote the arrival of the "mahdi", and for this purpose all military and economical resources will be given.  In addition,  the way to bring "the mahdi" (the Shiite "messiah" who is supposedly, according to their beliefs, going to impose the region of Islam on the whole world) is by creating a situation of chaos with local and international destruction.
 
Netanyahu contends Iran - long suspected of harboring enough enriched uranium to make a nuclear weapon - cannot be trusted with any sort of nuclear program. Notice Netanyahu stated that Iran has intentions to ultimately destroy Israel. Even the Arabs are concerned. "When Arabs and Israelis agree, it's worth paying attention," Netanyahu said. For more insight I strongly recommend you see these previous posts:
 
http://bibleprophecyfortoday.com/2015/04/19/drama-in-the-desert-continues-to-unfold/
 
http://bibleprophecyfortoday.com/2015/03/10/persia-flexes-its-muscles/
 
Thee former head of Israeli military intelligence, Amos Yadlin noted in assessing the situation:  "The deal and the lifting of sanctions on Tehran will pour more than $100 billion into Iran,". "Even a fraction of that sum will triple the budgets of terrorists such as Assad, Hizbullah and Hamas."
 
Again, it is paramount to note that Iran, referred to as "Persia," in the Bible may very well be the final kingdom that troubles Israel prior to the return of the Messiah.
 
In light of the current events involving Iran and their quest for nuclear weapons,  a piece of rabbinic literature [written 2000 years ago] known as the Yalkut Shimoni touches on many future scenarios both for the nation of Israel and for the world. In its section on the biblical Book of Isaiah and the prophecies contained therein, a rabbi cited by the Yalkut Shimoni states:
 
MEDRISH "YALKUT SHIMONI":
 
 (Yeshiya 60"That the year the Messiah will arrive when all the nations of the world will antagonize each other and threaten with war. The king of Persia (Iran) antagonizes the King of Arabia (Saudi Arabia) with war. The King of Arabia goes to Edom (The Western Countries, headed by USA) for advice. Then the King of Persia destroys the world (and since that cannot be done with conventional weapons it must mean nuclear which can destroy most of the world). And all the nations of the world begin to panic and are afraid, and Israel too is afraid as to how to defend from this. G-d then says to them "Do not fear for everything that I have done is for your benefit, to destroy the evil kingdom of Edom and eradicate evil from this world so that the Messiah can come, your time of redemption is now."
 
It has been reported that Jewish sages have assessed that soon there will be a nuclear war outside of Israel and in Eretz Yisroel will be the "selection" that was foretold in the prophesy of Zechariah and Isaiah by an earthquake, terrifying in its power, unlike anything known in the past.
 
Zechariah 13:7-8-And it shall come to pass, that in all the land, saith the Lord, two parts therein shall be cut off and die; but the third shall be left therein. And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they shall say, The Lord is my God.
 
Isaiah 6:9-13--And he said, Go, and tell this people, Hear ye indeed, but understand not; and see ye indeed, but perceive not. Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and convert, and be healed. Then said I, Lord, how long? And he answered, Until the cities be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land be utterly desolate,And the Lord have removed men far away, and there be a great forsaking in the midst of the land. But yet in it shall be a tenth, and it shall return, and shall be eaten: as a teil tree, and as an oak, whose substance is in them, when they cast their leaves: so the holy seed shall be the substance thereof.
 
In view of all this, it is clear that the words of this Medrish: "and the King of Persia returns and destroys the whole world" are very realistic and in light of ongoing world events, it is quite possible that this will actually happen in the near future.
 
There is also another striking event related to this in the words of the Torah Sages of 2000 years ago (in Yalkut Shimoni Shs"h 4:988) "Rabbi Barchiya said: in three hours in the future HaKadosh Baruch Hu will punish Esav and his men." Thus our Torah Scholars (z"l) tell us here that the destruction of the evil Kingdom of Edom will be accomplished "in three hours".
 
It is very possible that a nuclear war, as mentioned above, could last only 3 hours and in that time, the evil Kingdom of Edom could be destroyed. It is known from Jewish sages z"l [Malbim, Abarbanel etc.] that today Esav is America, the countries of Europe and the West.
 
I have said this before and I am saying it again:
 
It bears mentioning that in no other religious literature in the world do we find any specific predictive prophecies like we find in the Scriptures. In the Bible there are well over two thousand prophecies, most of which have already been fulfilled.
 
Though the Bible has been attacked, the one place where God rests His inspiration is that the things He foretells come infallibly to pass: 100% accuracy!!!
 
I again plea with you to study the Scriptures and accept Jesus Christ as your Lord & Savior while there still remains time and before it runs out.
 
Iran crowned as top regional, nuclear-threshold power - Win for Obama, fiasco for Netanyahu - http://www.debka.com/article/24738/Iran-crowned-as-top-regional-nuclear-threshold-power-Win-for-Obama-fiasco-for-Netanyahu

 
In broad lines, the final nuclear deal, reached Tuesday, July 14, between six world powers and Iran - after a decade of on-and-off negotiations and repeated hold-ups - grants Tehran sanctions relief in exchange for curbs on its nuclear program. How quickly the sanctions are lifted and the exact nature of the curbs is detailed in the final version of the nuclear accord when it is released.
 
In the view of debkafile's analysts, the accord is a major milestone in President Barack Obama's drive to orient US foreign policy on a rapprochement with Iran (followed by Cuba), while turning a cold shoulder to America's two traditional Middle East allies, Israel and Saudi Arabia. It anoints Tehran as the region's leading power standing on the threshold of a nuclear weapon.
 
 The foreign ministers of the United States, Britain, China, France, Germany and Russia met for an hour after midnight for a last push to get the final text agreed. The last sticking points were Iran's last-minute conditions for a deal: the immediate lifting of the UN Security Council embargo on Iran's buying and receiving arms and the ban on its ballistic missile program.
 
Lifting the embargo would permit Iran to freely arm US-designated terrorist groups like Hezbollah and Hamas, as well as Yemeni rebels. Russia and China, as arms suppliers to Tehran, backed Iran on this issue.
 
The agreement reportedly imposed a 10-year limit on Iran's nuclear work and was calculated to delay nuclear breakout by one year.
 
A diplomatic source told Reuters that a UN Security Council resolution would be sought this month to confirm Iranian curbs on its nuclear program and relief from sanctions to be implemented in the first half of 2016.
 
 The source said Iran and the International Atomic Energy Agency had agreed on a plan for addressing unanswered questions about the suspected military dimensions of past Iranian nuclear activity by the end of 2015. He said that some sanctions relief was conditional on Tehran resolving this issue.
 According to one of the last drafts of the accord, Iran has agreed to one visit to the Parchin military complex, where Iran is suspected of nuclear detonation testing, and possible interviews with Iranian nuclear scientists. Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has strongly banned both those steps. It is not clear how that issue was finessed in the final text.
 
 The agreement now goes before the legislatures of the signatories. US Congress has 60 days to review the deal, with President Barack Obama faced with a hard sell in the Senate of an accord which he and Secretary of State John Kerry have fought for without quarter, and which many US lawmakers like Israel's prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu have denounced as "a bad deal."
 
The Iranians will keep the US on the hot plate even after the signing celebration.
 
 The Majlis in Tehran will be asked to enact a law requiring the accord to be reviewed every few months and the power to annul it if the US does not pass the Iranian lawmakers' test of compliance.
 
 Khamenei this week denounced America as the "embodiment of global arrogance" - disregarding months of the close collaboration of Iran's wars in Iraq, Syria and Yemen with the Obama administration.
 
Indeed, American officers are running the war on the Islamic State in Iraq in close sync with Iranian Revolutionary Guards commanders. Washington moreover withholds large-scale arms from Syrian rebels out of consideration for Tehran's ally Bashar Assad. When Saudi civilians are put to flight by Yemen's Iran-backed Houthi rebel missiles, the Obama administration looks the other way.
 
 The situation in these war arenas poses an even greater threat than the deal signed in Vienna Tuesday.
 
Even if Iran does give way on inspections at Parchin and even if every last sanction is lifted by 2016, the deal pales in comparison to the turmoil in the region largely instigated by Tehran and Iran's promotion on the world stage. Anyway, many of the sanctions have been quietly lifted to win Iran's acquiescence to the talks. Iran has never interrupted its development of intercontinental ballistic missiles.
 
For Obama, this is a big win, just as it is a major fiasco for Binyamin Netanyahu. The US president's maneuvers for six years managed to hold off Israeli military action to cripple Iran's nuclear weapons capacity. Now, after the conclusion of an international accord that leaves Iran's nuclear program intact, the military option is a non-starter - at least for the near future.
 
 
Back in Tehran... Khamenei adds red lines, Rouhani tries to resign, Jaafari hints at "fait accompli" soon -
http://www.debka.com
 
Iran's top leaders remain ambivalent about whether or not to sign the comprehensive nuclear accord with the six world powers in Vienna as 22 agonizing months of negotiation falter on the brink. The all-powerful supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's latest comment was far from helpful. Saturday, July 11, he said publicly: "The US is the true embodiment of global arrogance," the fight against which "could not be interrupted" even after the completion of the nuclear talks. He also boasted that the Islamic Republic had "managed to charm the world" by sticking with those negotiations.
 
debkafile's Iranian sources report that Khamenei's remarks reflect the struggle between the pro- and anti-nuclear deal factions at the highest level of the Iranian leadership. For now, President Barack Obama's odds of less than 50 percent on a final accord may well describe the balance in Tehran.
 
 On June 29, President Hassan Rouhani was planning to resign when he asked the supreme leader to receive him first. He was upset by Foreign Minister Mohamed Zavad Zarif's recall from Vienna to Tehran for a tough briefing. Zarif had warned the president that the talks were doomed unless Iran gave some slack. The foreign minister said that the six foreign ministers were preparing to leave Vienna in protest against Iran's intransigence.
 
 Rouhani when he met Khamenei warned him that Iran was about to miss the main diplomatic train to its main destination: the lifting of sanctions to save the economy from certain ruin.
 
 The supreme ruler was unconvinced: He referred the president to the conditions for a deal he had laid down on June 23 and refused to budge: Sanctions must be removed upon the signing of the final accord; international atomic agency inspectors were banned at military facilities, along with interviews with nuclear scientists; and the powers must endorse Iran's right to continue nuclear research and build advanced centrifuges for uranium enrichment.
 
 Rouhani hotly stressed that those conditions had become a hindrance to the deal going through and insisted that sanctions relief was imperative for hauling the economy out of crisis.
 
 Khamenei disputed him on that point too. He retorted that the revolutionary republic had survived the eight-year Iranian-Iraqi war (1979-187) with far fewer resources and assets than it commanded at present.
 
 For back-up, the supreme ruler asked two hardliners to join his ding-dong with the president: Defense Minister Hosseim Dehqan and Revolutionary Guards chief Mohammad Ali Jaafari.
 
 Both told Rouhani in the stiffest terms that Tehran must not on any account bow to international pressure for giving up its nuclear program or the development of ballistic missiles.
 
 In a broad hint to President Rouhani to pipe down, Khamenei reminisced about his long-gone predecessor Hassan Bani-Sadr (president in 1980-1981) who was not only forced out of office but had to flee Iran, and the former prime minister and presidential candidate Mir Hossein Moussavi, who has lived under house arrest for six years since leading an opposition campaign.
 
 The supreme leader then set out his thesis that the danger of Iran coming under attack had declined to zero, since Europe was in deep economic crisis (mainly because of Greece) and because the US president had never been less inclined to go to war than he is today.
 
Jaaafri added his two cents by commenting that after a succession of fiascos, Obama would go to any lengths to reach a nuclear deal with Iran as the crowning achievement of his presidency.  The Revolutionary Guards chief then added obliquely: "Before long we will present the West with a fait accompli."
 
He refused to elaborate on this when questioned by the president, but it was taken as a reference to some nuclear event.
 
 Rouhani left the meeting empty-handed, but his letter of resignation stayed in his pocket.
 
 The next day, when Zarif landed in Vienna to take his seat once more at the negotiating table, he learned about a new directive Khamenei had sent the president, ordering him to expand ballistic missile development and add another five percent to its budget - another burden on Iran's empty coffers.
 
 Khamenei's office made sure this directive reached the public domain. Zarif too was armed with another impediment to a deal. Khamenei instructed him to add a fresh condition: The annulment of the sanctions imposed against Iran's missile development and arms purchases.  
 
Iran Threatens White House Will Be "Destroyed in Under 10 Minutes" Should Strike Occur - By Lea Speyer -
http://www.breakingisraelnews.com/45024/iran-threatens-us-destroyed-10-minutes-strike-middle-east/#d32kYHca2fs2q4LJ.97

 
"Woe to the many nations that rage- they rage like the raging sea! Woe to the peoples who roar- they roar like the roaring of great waters!" (Isaiah 17:12)
 
An Iranian newspaper affiliated with Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei threatened that the White House would be "destroyed in under 10 minutes" should an attack on Iran's nuclear facilities occur, media watchdog MEMRI reported.
 
The editorial in the Iranian daily Kayhan, warned that the US was "on its deathbed" and argued that a nuclear deal with the P5+1 was against the Koran. MEMRI translated the comments, which were made on June 17.
 
"Let us have faith that America is incapable of any misstep [against Iran], and that it cannot even attack Iranian facilities without the White House being destroyed in under 10 minutes," the editorial stated. "Let us have faith that the old 'village leader' [i.e. the US] has fallen onto his deathbed, and that even in his youth, he never made the mistake [of daring to attack Iran], and that he, like Israel, remains mired in quicksand."
 
The article compared the current struggle to finalize a permanent nuclear agreement with early wars of Islam, such as the Battle of Badr, where Muhammad emerged victorious and slaughtered all the Jews of Khaybar.
 
The authors called on Iranians to use the month of Ramadan as a time of prayer to redeem Islam, "which is entangled by the Jews' deception" and by the deceit of the US - "The Great Satan" - and Britain - "the willy fox."
 
The threats from the Khamenei affiliated media outlet comes as Iran and western powers have failed for the third time to reach a final nuclear agreement. The latest and fourth deadline is set for Monday as world powers continue marathon negotiations.
 
 
Three previous deadlines for the current round of talks - June 30, July 7 and July 9 - have come and gone. Officials close to the negotiations have explained that arms embargo and sanctions are the key sticking points preventing the finalization of the deal.
 
"Ninety-eight percent of the text is finished," a source told AFP. "Now there needs to be a political decision. And if that is taken things could quickly" progress.
 
Following a 90-minute meeting with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini, US Secretary of State John Kerry tweeted Saturday that there remains "difficult issues to resolve."
 
 Leaked details of the framework agreement seek to reduce Iran's stock of enriched uranium from more than seven tons to approximately 350 kilos (770 pounds). Iran would also see the number of its centrifuges cut from 19,000 to some 6,000.
 
The head of Israel's Foreign Ministry, Dore Gold, warned on Friday that a deal between Iran and world powers would only increase Iran's global sponsorship of terror across the Middle East.
 
\In an op-ed published in the Telegraph in response to claims made by Zarif earlier in the week, Gold wrote, "The idea that Iran is a partner in the fight against terrorism is not only disingenuous but also absurd. What Zarif is seeking is a leap of faith by his Western readers, who are asked to believe that a country which has been repeatedly identified as the largest state supporter of terrorism in the world will suddenly be altered by an agreement over its nuclear program into an ally against terrorism. He is asking the world to simply trust Iran that this transformation is about to happen."
 
Gold outlined the immediate impact lifting sanctions on Iran would have and how it will "intensify [Tehran's] support for global terrorism."
 
"First, the lifting of sanctions on Iran will result in a windfall of cash for the Iranian treasury, which could reach $150 billion in the first year. As Iran decides which Middle Eastern insurgency to back with its IRGC units, it often has to establish priorities because it is operating under clear economic constraints. These constraints will be removed as Iran obtains the wherewithal to fully fund and even expand its terrorist activity worldwide," Gold wrote.
 
"Second, in past decades, states supporting terrorism feared retaliatory operations by the West, such as the US attack on Libya in 1986. Deterrence could be created. But if Iran becomes a nuclear threshold state, as a result of its impending agreement with the P5+1, what are the chances that deterrence of this sort will hold? Iran will seek to act with impunity as the terrorism it sponsors acquires a protective nuclear umbrella."
Why a Deal with Iran Scares the Middle East - By Chris Mitchell -
http://www.breakingisraelnews.com/45077/why-a-deal-with-iran-scares-the-middle-east-opinion/#ytQMKglC4Fs8qSYD.97
 
Why are so many in the Middle East concerned about the possible nuclear deal with Iran?
 
In the short term, one of the main concerns in the region would be the billions of dollars Iran would receive in sanctions relief.
 
Even the U.S. State Department released a report recently saying Iran remains one of the chief sponsors of terror in the world. Those billions of dollars could be funneled to support Iran's battle to establish a Shiite government in Yemen, re-supply the Lebanese terror group Hezbollah, and continue to prop up the government of Syrian president Bashar al Assad.
 
Many here in Israel and throughout the area feel that would be a high price to pay for a deal that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says would all but guarantee that Iran would eventually get a nuclear bomb.
 
If history is any judge, Israel will do all it can to stop Iran from getting a nuclear bomb. In 1981, they bombed the nuclear reactor in Iraq that Saddam Hussein was building. In 2007, they bombed the nuclear plant president Assad was building in Syria.
 
They don't want any of their neighbors to get a nuclear device that threatens the survival of the Jewish state. If a deal is struck that, as Netanyahu has said would pave the way for Iran to get a nuclear device, it seems plausible that Israel would do what it has to do, including a military strike to destroy Iran's nuclear program.
 
In fact, a report just the other day in an Israeli news outlet said the Israel Defense Force has appointed a special team to plan for a potential strike.
 
It seems Netanyahu feels destined to be the leader to stop Iran. As this reporter explained in Destination Jerusalem: ISIS, Convert or Die, Christian Persecution and Preparing for the Days Ahead, CBN News accompanied the prime minister to Moscow in November 2013.
 
He went to persuade Russian President Vladimir Putin not to sign one of the interim deals with Iran. During a background briefing to the traveling press, I asked Netanyahu if he felt in a similar position as Winston Churchill in the 1930s.
 
At that time in history, Churchill warned the world of the dangers of a re-armed Nazi Germany. Now, Netanyahu like a voice in the wilderness is sounding the alarm about a nuclear Iran.
 
He answered, "I need to make sure I do everything in my power in the time that I have as leader of Israel to make sure that the chain of Jewish existence and the chain in the life of the Jewish people in the Jewish state is not severed. This is my responsibility."
 
So it's possible in the event of a deal with Iran that allows the Islamic regime to get a nuclear bomb, we might see a greater conflict - not less - here in the region and possibly the world.

World strikes final "historic" nuclear deal with Iran. Will it bring peace, or war? - Joel C. Rosenberg - https://flashtrafficblog.wordpress.com/2015/07/14/world-strikes-final-historic-nuclear-deal-with-iran-will-it-bring-peace-or-war-here-are-my-initial-thoughts/

 
Lynn and I flew back home to Israel today, and arrived just as the news was breaking that the international community has struck a final nuclear deal with Iran.
 
Will it bring peace, or war? I am still reading through the 100-page agreement and will have more analysis later. But here are a few initial comments and observations.
 
President Obama and his team are convinced they have cut off Iran's path to The Bomb and that the world will now enter a season of peace and stability. "Today after two years of negotiation the United States together with the international community has achieved something that decades of animosity has not: a comprehensive long-term deal with Iran that will prevent it from obtaining a nuclear weapon," the president said.
 
The Iranian leadership is euphoric - they are calling the agreement "historic," and celebrating their victory over the West. No wonder. They got nearly everything they wanted and gave up no serious concessions. Under this deal, Iran can continue enriching uranium. They don't have to dismantle any nuclear facilities - not a single one. They don't have to shut down their ballistic missile factories or dismantle any of their ballistic missiles. They don't have to promise to stop funding and supporting international terrorism. They don't have to release a single American citizen held in Iran - not Pastor Saeed or the Washington Post reporter on trial for his life or any of the others. The list goes on and on.
 
The Israeli government is also calling the deal historic - "a stunning historic mistake." In the car ride from the airport to our home, Lynn and I listened to a live radio broadcast of Prime Minister Netanyahu addressing the nation. Here are some of the highlights:
 
*"Israel is not bound by this deal with Iran and Israel is not bound by this deal with Iran because Iran continues to seek our destruction."
*"This deal repeats the mistakes made with North Korea. There too we were assured that inspections and verifications would prevent a rogue regime from developing nuclear weapons. And we all know how that ended."
*"In the coming decade, the deal will reward Iran, the terrorist regime in Tehran, with hundreds of billions of dollars. This cash bonanza will fuel Iran's terrorism worldwide, its aggression in the region and its efforts to destroy Israel, which are ongoing."
*"Amazingly, this bad deal does not require Iran to cease its aggressive behavior in any way. And just last Friday, that aggression was on display for all to see. While the negotiators were closing the deal in Vienna, Iran's supposedly moderate president chose to go to a rally in Tehran and at this rally, a frenzied mob burned American and Israeli flags and chanted 'Death to America, Death to Israel!' Now, this didn't happen four years ago. It happened four days ago."
 
Does Netanyahu's remarks signal military action against Iran is coming, and/or coming soon? That's not clear. But it cannot be ruled out. Israeli leaders certainly want to find a way to neutralize the Iran nuclear threat without using force. But Israel has successfully used preemptive air strikes to destroy two foreign nuclear facilities over the years, in Iraq in 1981, and in Syria in 2007. The possibility of an Israeli preemptive strike against Iran has just gone up significantly.
 
Readers of this blog know that I wrote a trilogy of political thrillers several years ago - The Twelfth Imam, The Tehran Initiative, and Damascus Countdown - imagining what might happen if a foolish American President inadvertently allowed Iran to secretly build a small arsenal of nuclear weapons, and an Israeli Prime Minister decided he had no other option than to launch a massive preemptive strike against Iran. Still, that was fiction. I pray that nothing in those novels will come to pass. I certainly don't wish for a war with Iran, especially now that my family and I live in Israel. Indeed, I'm praying for a peaceful resolution to this mounting crisis, and I'm asking the Lord to move mightily to bring down this evil regime in Tehran and end the nuclear threat through any means other than war. But the Lord may allow a war to come. Leaders in this region - both Israeli and Arab - may conclude a preemptive war soon would be far preferable to a nuclear war with Iran later. So we must be ready for whatever comes next. I hope you will join me in praying for "the peace of Jerusalem," as the Psalmist commands us in Psalm 122:6. Pray, too, for wisdom for the leaders in this region to know how best to deal with this challenge. And pray that the people and leaders of the region turn to the Lord for His wisdom and His grace and salvation, not their own.
 
Again, I will post more analysis in the days ahead as I work my way through the agreement, and as we see how other leaders and nations react to the deal. For now, let me share with you what the former head of Israeli military intelligence noted in assessing the situation: "There are three likely scenarios for where the world goes from here," notes Amos Yadlin.
 
1.Iran somehow transforms itself into a less malign state and constructively engages with the family of nations. Unfortunately, this is highly unlikely.
 
2.Iran decides in a few years to renege on its commitments, as North Korea did in 2003. If Tehran calculates that the gains of this approach outweigh the retaliation it would provoke by the West, there is no doubt they will go for the bomb. Israel and the international community must maintain a credible military option at all times to stop Iran producing a nuclear weapon.
 
3.Iran plays it safe, keeping to the letter if not the spirit of the agreement, while waiting for any restrictions on it to expire in a decade. While doing this, Iran improves its technological know-how, continues to sponsor terrorism, and calls for the destruction of Israel.
 
"The deal and the lifting of sanctions on Tehran will pour more than $100 billion into Iran," notes Yadlin. "Even a fraction of that sum will triple the budgets of terrorists such as Assad, Hezbollah and Hamas."
 
He adds: "Israel learned long ago that taking out a nuclear program doesn't equate to war."
 
Developing......
  Iran deal a prophetic milestone - Bill Wilson - www.dailyjot.com  
The "president" is making a big deal about his recently signed deal with Iran that will assuredly allow the terrorist sponsoring state to develop a nuclear weapon. The White House is hailing the agreement as a breakthrough for peace, but those who watch closely the affairs and politics of the Middle East know better. It is beyond reason that any deal voluntarily agreed to by Iran would be good for world peace. Israel, who has the most to lose because Iran continuously calls for the annihilation of Israel, is livid. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared in response: "The world is a much more dangerous place today than it was yesterday." Notwithstanding, the US "president" was true to his word.
 
The Iran agreement is the very political result of "Blackmail Diplomacy" announced by then White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel at the American-Israel Public Affairs Committee meeting on May 5, 2009. Emanuel said, "Israel now faces a moment of truth--it can either acquiesce to international demands and in return have its most serious threats dealt with, or maintain the status quo and have those threats persist." Emanuel was saying that the White House would ignore Iran's nuclear threat, if Israel did not buckle to demands over a Palestinian state. This is exactly what happened. Israel refused to cut its nation in half with the proposed Palestinian state, and the "president" paved the way for Iranian nuclear weapons.
 
True to his word, Netanyahu is telling the world what a bad deal it is to have a terrorist state receiving billions of US dollars in cash while building toward a nuclear weapon over the next ten years--which is what this Iranian deal allows. Netanyahu said in a statement after the announcement of the deal, "In the coming decade, the deal will reward Iran, the terrorist regime in Tehran, with hundreds of billions of dollars. This cash bonanza will fuel Iran's terrorism worldwide, its aggression in the region and its efforts to destroy Israel, which are ongoing...in a decade this deal will give an unreformed, unrepentant and far richer terrorist regime the capacity to produce many nuclear bombs...What a stunning historic mistake!"
 
The sad truth is that the country that has been a historical beacon of advancing Christianity, the US, is implicit in advancing the prophecy clock of the antichrist and the end times. The "president" may believe there were no consequences to advancing the Islamic agenda at Israel's expense. But look at our nation. Those who have given up on finding a job are at a record high; those on government entitlements are at a record high; the morals of the nation are at a record low; our borders are not secure; our debt is at a record high, and so on. We are already seeing the consequences of turning against God and Israel over the past decade, just as Zechariah 12:4 says, "And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces..." We need to repent by not accepting this deal.
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