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.
16 reasons nuke deal is an Iranian victory and a Western catastrophe - By David Horovitz -
http://www.timesofisrael.com/16-reasons-nuke-deal-is-an-iranian-victory-and-a-western-catastrophe/ Op-ed: Has Iran agreed to 'anywhere, anytime' inspections, an end to R&D on faster centrifuges, and the dismantling of its key nuclear sites? No, no, and no
Iran's President Hassan Rouhani on Tuesday unsurprisingly hailed the nuclear agreement struck with US-led world powers, and derided the "failed" efforts of the "warmongering Zionists." His delight, Iran's delight, is readily understandable.
The agreement legitimizes Iran's nuclear program, allows it to retain core nuclear facilities, permits it to continue research in areas that will dramatically speed its breakout to the bomb should it choose to flout the deal, but also enables it to wait out those restrictions and proceed to become a nuclear threshold state with full international legitimacy. Here's how.
1. Was the Iranian regime required, as a condition for this deal, to disclose the previous military dimensions of its nuclear program - to come clean on its violations - in order both to ensure effective inspections of all relevant facilities and to shatter the Iranian-dispelled myth that it has never breached its non-proliferation obligations? No. (This failure, arguably the original sin of the Western negotiating approach, is expertly detailed here by Emily B. Landau.) Rather than exposing Iran's violations, the new deal solemnly asserts that the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty which Iran has failed to honor "remains the cornerstone" of ongoing efforts to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons. The deal provides for a mechanism "to address past and present issues of concern relating to its nuclear program," but Iran has managed to dodge such efforts for years, and the deal inspires little hope of change in that area, blithely anticipating "closing the issue" in the next few months.
2. Has the Iranian regime been required to halt all uranium enrichment, including thousands of centrifuges spinning at its main Natanz enrichment facility? No. The deal specifically legitimizes enrichment under certain eroding limitations.
3. Has the Iranian regime been required to shut down and dismantle its Arak heavy water reactor and plutonium production plant? No. It will convert, not dismantle the facility, under a highly complex process. Even if it honors this clause, its commitment to "no additional heavy water reactors or accumulation of heavy water in Iran" will expire after 15 years.
4. Has the Iranian regime been required to shut down and dismantle the underground uranium enrichment facility it built secretly at Fordow? No. (Convert, not dismantle.)
5. Has the Iranian regime been required to halt its ongoing missile development? No.
6. Has the Iranian regime been required to halt research and development of the faster centrifuges that will enable it to break out to the bomb far more rapidly than is currently the case? No. The deal specifically legitimizes ongoing R&D under certain eroding limitations. It specifically provides, for instance, that Iran will commence testing of the fast "IR-8 on single centrifuge machines and its intermediate cascades" as soon as the deal goes into effect, and will "commence testing of up to 30 IR-6 and IR-8 centrifuges after eight and a half years."
7. Has the Iranian regime been required to submit to "anywhere, anytime" inspections of any and all facilities suspected of engaging in rogue nuclear-related activity? No. Instead, the deal describes at considerable length a very protracted process of advance warning and "consultation" to resolve concerns.
8. Has the international community established procedures setting out how it will respond to different classes of Iranian violations, to ensure that the international community can act with sufficient speed and efficiency to thwart a breakout to the bomb? No.
9. Has the Iranian regime been required to halt its arming, financing and training of the Hezbollah terrorist army in south Lebanon? No. (This kind of non-nuclear issue was not discussed at the negotiations.)
10. Has the Iranian regime been required to surrender for trial the members of its leadership placed on an Interpol watch list for their alleged involvement in the bombing, by a Hezbollah suicide bomber, of the AMIA Jewish community center offices in Buenos Aires in 1994 that resulted in the deaths of 85 people? No. (This kind of non-nuclear issue was not discussed at the negotiations.)
11. Has the Iranian regime undertaken to close its 80 estimated "cultural centers" in South America from which it allegedly fosters terrorist networks? No. (This kind of non-nuclear issue was not discussed at the negotiations.)
12. Has the Iranian leadership agreed to stop inciting hatred among its people against Israel and the United States and to stop its relentless calls for the annihilation of Israel? No. (This kind of non-nuclear issue was not discussed at the negotiations.)
13. Has the Iranian regime agreed to halt executions, currently running at an average of some three a day, the highest rate for 20 years? No. (This kind of non-nuclear issue was not discussed at the negotiations.)
14. Does the nuclear deal shatter the painstakingly constructed sanctions regime that forced Iran to the negotiating table? Yes.
15. Will the deal usher in a new era of global commercial interaction with Iran, reviving the Iranian economy and releasing financial resources that Iran will use to bolster its military forces and terrorist networks? Yes.
16. Does the nuclear deal further cement Iran's repressive and ideologically rapacious regime in power? Yes.
No wonder Iran and its allies are celebrating. Nobody else should be.
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.
White House close to deal giving Iran nuclear arms - Bill Wilson - www.dailyjot.com
The White House is expected to soon announce a deal with Iran claiming it will prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons. In reality, it will enable the terrorist sponsoring state to go nuclear. The "president" has crossed into the prophetically dangerous waters of assisting a nation who comes against Israel in the end time Ezekiel 38 battle. The Iranians have made it clear their goal, even during the nuclear negotiations, holding demonstrations in Tehran chanting "Death to America" and "Death to Israel." The Weekly Standard revealed that two separate reports, one from the UN and the other from Germany, confirm Iran continues to build its nuclear and ballistic missiles program.
Flashback to June of 2009. A foreign policy analysis of the first six months of the current Administration revealed that its foreign policy favored the sponsors of terrorism and nations unfriendly to Israel while snubbing traditional American allies. It started with the White House snubbing the longstanding relationship with Great Britain. At the same time, the White House extended the diplomatic olive branch to the world's foremost sponsor of terrorism, Iran, by signaling a willingness to open diplomatic discussions--even as the strong-armed, Sharia law, government cracked down on protestors of a rigged election by killing them in cold blood in the streets and threatening to execute members of the opposition party.
But the most appalling foreign policy change by the White House is its treatment of Israel. The Administration used its influence to collapse the government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. When that didn't work, foreign policy blackmail was used tying America's opposition to Iranian nuclear weapons to Israel's acceptance of a terrorist Palestinian state dividing in two the nation of Israel. There are many more examples of how in the very first months of this Administration, the White House sided with Islamists while throwing traditional allies, such as Israel, under the bus. This ignores the warning of the Lord regarding Israel in Genesis 12:3 that He will "curse him that curses thee."
Seven years later, there is still no "Palestinian" state and the White House is true to its word. It is negotiating a deal with Iran that will lead to Iran having nuclear weapons. The news reports will hail this deal as landmark toward limiting nuclear weapons and Secretary of State John Kerry will likely be touted for the Nobel Peace Prize. Reality, however, is that the world became a far more dangerous place as Iran will continue to develop its nuclear technology with deadly aims toward Israel and the US. Jesus said in Matthew 6:24, "No man can serve two masters." Neither can this nation serve God by pressuring Israel and bowing to satan by appeasing Islam and Iran.
Nuclear deal pushes Israel aside in Washington, raises Iran to leading US partner and ally - http://www.debka.com/article/24740/Nuclear-deal-pushes-Israel-aside-in-Washington-raises-Iran-to-leading-US-partner-and-ally
Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu bitterly accused the "leading international powers of gambling our collective future on a deal with the foremost sponsor of international terrorism" - roundly condemning all six world powers who signed the nuclear deal with Iran in Vienna Tuesday, July 14.
President Barack Obama topped the list. Netanyahu pointed out that the president had determined on a deal with Iran at any price before he took office, which is true. Therefore, it had nothing to do with the poor relations between himself and the US President, he said in answer to critics. It was now time for Israeli leaders to set aside differences and pull together, he said. Opposition leader, the Zionist Union's Yitzhak Herzog, agreed and said he was enlisting for the necessary effort on behalf of Israeli security. Tuesday night he received an update on the situation from the prime minister.
The special security cabinet meeting, called to discuss the ramifications of the nuclear deal, hours after it was signed, unanimously rejected it and declared "this deal does not commit Israel."
Unfortunately, Israel was never asked for its commitment, any more than the other Middle East powers directly affected by it. The cabinet statement was therefore no more than a meaningless expression of futility, a sensation shared equally by Saudi King Salman and Egyptian President Abdel-Fatteh El-Sisi, in the face of the iron wall Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry have built for Iran in the region.
Both unceremoniously ditched Israel and its Arab neighbors in order to join hands with Iran. By this reshuffle of allies, Washington has created a new geopolitical reality in the region at the expense of its equilibrium.
The US Congress has 60 days to review the nuclear accord and reach a decision. But if Netanyahu had had any hopes of swinging the Senate around to voting down the veto President Obama promised to impose to nullify its rejection that hope swiftly vanished in thin air. Leading presidential contender Hillary Clinton announced that if she wins the 2016 election she would abide in full by the nuclear accord Obama signed with Iran. This announcement assured Obama of a Senate majority.
The dead end reached by Netanyahu on this issue also symbolizes the end of Israeli's special standing in Washington as "America's leading Middle East ally."
Iran has stepped into this position. There is little point in Israel knocking on the White House door to renew the old understanding and sympathy, as advised by former prime minister Ehud Barak and others. It does not matter who sits in the prime minister's office in Jerusalem, as matters stand now, he/she will find themselves on the wrong side of that door.
Defense Secretary Ashton Carter will visit Israel next week. But that is only an attempt to soften the blow.
This does not mean that the Obama administration will totally abandon Israel, only that it will no longer enjoy favored status compared with other Middle East nations. By ditching the Arab world, Obama equally dumped the Palestinian issue. This has some advantages for the Netanyahu government, but is not the end of the world for the Palestinians. They, like Arab governments, have the option of seeking an understanding with Tehran, whereas that door is shut tight against Israel.
In this situation, Israel's quiet understandings with a number of Arab leaders directed at forming a bloc to counter the US-Iran alliance, have no immediate future. When the earth shakes in a major upheaval, each individual is out to save himself and has no time to look around for allies.
In some ways, the Netanyahu government may find relief in being released from the political and strategic constraints bound up in the relationship with the Obama administration, and find the freedom to be more pragmatic and independent in its policy-making.
After all, Israel still has the strongest army and the most vibrant economy in the Middle East. Its leaders must learn to use those huge assets wisely and independently of the Obama administration.
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......
Is the Agreement with Iran the Start of the War of Gog and Magog? - By Rivkah Lambert Adler - http://www.breakingisraelnews.com/45260/iran-nuclear-deal-signal-start-gog-magog-jewish-world/#dC2jHG2pkuo52igq.97
"Son of man, set your face toward Gog, [toward] the land of Magog, the prince, the head of Meshech and Tubal, and prophesy concerning him." (Ezekiel 38:2)
Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu has called the recent permanent Iran nuclear deal as "a bad mistake of historic proportions," slamming western powers for capitulating to Iran. Is this agreement with the Islamic Republic the beginning of the War of Gog and Magog?
The Bible mentions Gog, the leader of a nation called Magog, in Ezekiel, chapter 38. But who is Gog and what modern country is Magog?
Just before his passing in 1995, Rav Levi Sa'adia Nachmani, a mystical rabbi from Israel who accurately predicted the Six Day War in 1967 and the Yom Kippur War in 1973, clearly stated in this video, that Korea is Magog.
End of Days blogger Menachem Robinson consistently states in his blog The Absolute Truth that Gog is Former US President George Bush whom he calls "the evil Gog Bush" and Magog is the United States.
A few months ago, Lisa Haven, writing for the Before It's News website, stated that "Russia is Magog and Gog is their leader."
As the End of Days advances, whichever scenario proves true, the recent nuclear agreement with Iran has Israel lovers worried about the fate of the Holy Land in the War of Gog and Magog.
Speaking earlier this year from Lakewood, NJ, Rabbi Mendel Kessin predicted that, after Obama leaves office, America will elect a strongly pro-Israel president and that America and Israel will join together in the War of Gog and Magog to fight ISIS and Iran.
Will ISIS and Iran, fighting the War of Gog and Magog, ultimately destroy the Land of Israel? Not according to Jewish sources. In fact, there are plenty of Jewish sources that suggest that Israel will be the safest place in the world during the War of Gog and Magog.
Rabbi Nir Ben Artzi, a mystical rabbi living in Southern Israel, writes a weekly column about a spiritual perspective on world events. His Hebrew newsletter is distributed in synagogues throughout Israel.
An English translation of his message from a few weeks ago notes, "Iran doesn't care about anything else but being a respected country in the world, a nuclear power. It is deathly afraid of Israel and does not mess with Israel directly, only indirectly."
Earlier last month, another blogger, Hezbos In YOUR Backyard, quoted Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the powerful and universally respected leader of the worldwide Chabad Lubavitch movement who passed away in 1994, as saying "This world war of Gog and Magog cannot impinge on Jewish life."
In this video, Rabbi Schneerson, speaking in Yiddish, also "says that what happens regarding Jerusalem and Israel is indeed only happening 'around' Jerusalem (but not 'in' Jerusalem)." The implication is that Jerusalem will be spared the pangs of war.
From a Jewish perspective, the Bible does not give us enough information to determine the true identity of Gog and Magog. We also don't know for certain whether the War of Gog and Magog will be a physical war as we understand the term or whether it will be a spiritual battle. However, according to Jewish sources, we can look forward to the ultimate defeat of Gog.
Rabbi Yechiel Weitzman, in his book "The Ishmaelite Exile", predicts a positive conclusion to the War of Gog and Magog that Bible believers can cling to. "If we contemplate our sages' words, we will realize that the feature characteristic of Gog is his war against belief in God. This being the case, his downfall will come about through supernatural plagues that will force everyone to recognize God, and all will proclaim, 'God is One, and His name is One.'"
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