Iran Promises to 'Set Fire' to U.S. Interests - Adam Kredo - http://freebeacon.com/national-security/iran-promises-to-set-fire-to-u-s-interests/
A senior Iranian military official has vowed to "set fire" to all U.S. interests in the region and maintained that the Islamic Republic welcomes war with America, according to regional reports demonstrating that Tehran is still committed to fighting the United States in the wake of a recently inked nuclear accord.
"In threatening remarks," a top Iranian commander of the Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) stated that Iran is prepared to "annihilate" U.S. and Israeli war forces should they "take the slightest military move against Iran," according to Iran's state-controlled Fars News Agency.
"We monitor their acts day and night and will take every opportunity to set fire to all their economic and political interests if they do a wrong deed," Brigadier General Hossein Salami, the IRGC's lieutenant commander, was quoted as saying in Tehran on Thursday.
In a direct threat to both the United States and Israel, Salami promised to "cut off enemies' hands and fingers will then send its dust to the air," according to the report.
These Iranian military officials were responding to multiple claims by U.S. officials that a military option against Tehran still remains on the table, despite the recently inked accord, which aims to constrain the Islamic Republic's contested nuclear program.
In May, Salami said that Iran desires a war with the United States.
"We have prepared ourselves for the most dangerous scenarios and this is no big deal and is simple to digest for U.S.; we welcome war with the U.S. as we do believe that it will be the scene for our success to display the real potentials of our power," he said at the time.
The comments came on the say day that the Iranian military unveiled a new missile defense system to track enemy threats.
"The system can detect and trace targets, take decisions for the operation of the missile systems, decide about the type of weapon systems needed, assess and foresee hostile targets, and field commanders can easily take a final decision with the data provided by the command and control system," according to Fars.
Meanwhile, Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei on Thursday said that Iran is not open to negotiate with the United States on any other issue outside of the nuclear portfolio.
Khamenei "reiterated the complete ban on any negotiation between the Iranian officials and the Americans on other issues, and said there won't be any other talks with the White House, except for the nuclear issue," according to Fars.
"The U.S. positions are fully against the stances of the Islamic Republic," Khamenei was quoted as saying in a wide-ranging speech.
Khamenei also called on the country's leaders to attack U.S. critics of the deal.
"In the nuclear talks with are negotiating with the 5+1, but the U.S. administration is, in fact, the main party; but the U.S. officials speak very badly and a decision needs to be taken about the manner they speak," Khamenei told the country's powerful Assembly of Experts.
"Don't say that the Americans are uttering these words to convince their internal rivals; of course, I believe that the internal disputes in the U.S. are real and they have differences and the reason for such a difference is clear to us, but what is officially said needs a response and if no response is given to them, the other side's remarks will be entrenched," Khamenei said.
Prophetic Insights Shed Light on Possible Fate of Iran Deal - By Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz -
http://www.breakingisraelnews.com/47908/time-redemption-prophetic-perspectives-iran-nuclear-deal-jewish-world/#xQsPeCZlzK0YMHIb.97
"Now behold, here comes a troop of riders, horsemen in pairs. And one said, 'Fallen, fallen is Babylon; And all the images of her gods are shattered on the ground. O my threshed people, and my afflicted of the threshing floor! What I have heard from the LORD of hosts, The God of Israel, I make known to you.'" (Isaiah 21:9-10)
US lawmakers have only a few weeks left to decide the fate of the Iran nuclear deal. While it remains unclear whether Iran will be officially allowed to keep its nuclear program, the Bible offers some prophetic perspectives on the ultimate outcome of the accord and its implications for Israel and the Jewish nation.
Everything began when US President Barack Obama announced the "framework" of a nuclear agreement with Iran. Few people commented on the date of his announcement, though the significance was undeniable. Whether by chance or design, the president made the announcement on April 1, which on the Hebrew calendar was the 13th of Nisan.
In the story of the Jewish holiday of Purim, the 13th of Nisan is the day an evil member of the Persian court convinced King Ahasuerus to issue a decree ordering all the Jews of his kingdom to death. To some, Obama's choice of days seemed disturbingly appropriate.
It should be noted ancient Persia is now present day Iran.
Perhaps it was not entirely unintentional when Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu chose March 3, the 13th of Adar on the Hebrew calendar, the eve of that same Jewish holiday, to address a joint session of the US Congress in an appeal to lawmakers to reject the nuclear deal.
According to the story of Purim, the Jewish Queen Esther went in to address her husband, the Persian King, to attempt to convince him to repeal Haman's decree. If the Biblical connection was lost on Obama, it was certainly not lost on the prime minister, who said:
"We're an ancient people. In our nearly 4,000 years of history, many have tried repeatedly to destroy the Jewish people. Tomorrow night, on the Jewish holiday of Purim, we'll read the Book of Esther. We'll read of a powerful Persian viceroy named Haman, who plotted to destroy the Jewish people some 2,500 years ago. But a courageous Jewish woman, Queen Esther, exposed the plot and gave for the Jewish people the right to defend themselves against their enemies."
US lawmakers are expected to vote on the fate of the Iran deal during the Ten Days of Awe, the 10 days of divine judgement between the holidays of Rosh Hashana, the New Year, and Yom Kippur, the Day of Repentance. In Jewish tradition, on Rosh Hashana God opens the book of judgment and on Yom Kippur he seals it.
The Yalkut Shimoni is the best known and most comprehensive anthology of the oral traditions of the Bible. The oldest known copy dates back to 1310 CE, though it is believed to be much older. The book contains a description of the current situation with Iran that could almost have come from a recent news source. In its commentary on the Book of Isaiah, the Yalkut Shimoni states:
"Rabbi Yitzchak said: 'In the year in which the Messiah-King appears, all the nations of the world are provoking each other. The King of Persia provokes an Arab king and the Arab king turns to Aram for advice. And the King of Persia goes back and destroys the entire world. And all the nations of the world are in panic and distress and they fall upon their faces and are seized with pains like those of a woman giving birth, and Israel are in panic and distress and asking 'Where shall we go? Where shall we go?,' and He says to them 'My sons, do not fear; all that I have done, I have done only for you. Why are you afraid? Do not fear, your time of redemption has come, and the final redemption is not like the first redemption, because the first redemption was followed by sorrow and servitude under other kingdoms, but the final redemption is not followed by sorrow and servitude under other kingdoms."
As previously noted, Persia is now Iran. Aram is generally considered to be Edom, which Bible scholars identify today as Europe.
The Biblical foresight of the Iran nuclear deal have important implications for the future. While the Iran nuclear threat is real, just as Esther defeated an evil Persian enemy, so too will Israel and the Jewish nation prevail.
Revealed Secret Construction Makes Iran Deal Supporters Look Even More Foolish - By Jonathan Tobin -
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0815/tobin083115.php3
First, the debate over the Iran nuclear deal was roiled by the news that a side deal between the International Atomic Energy Agency and Tehran allowed the Islamist regime to self-inspect the Parchin military site.
Parchin is the place where Iran conducted much of the military research connected with its nuclear project including work on triggers for bombs. Administration apologists first scoffed at the AP report with the shocking details about the inspections and, once the text of the agreement was published, incredibly claimed it was a fake.
But as embarrassing as that performance was, these Parchin truthers look even dumber after Reuters reported that the IAEA has discovered that Iran has been doing construction at the Parchin site since May.
If, as the IAEA claims in a Reuters report, Iran has actually built an extension of the Parchin facility, then the administration and its truther allies who were claiming that the site was an abandoned after thought that could tell us nothing about the nuclear program have been once again exposed as clueless propagandists or, even worse, liars.
The arguments against treating the Parchin agreement as an egregious betrayal of principle went something along these lines. Supporters of the deal said the published reports about the IAEA-Iran protocol on Parchin were "misleading" and that it didn't mean that the UN watchdog agency was actually letting Iran inspect its own facilities.
But when it was clear that the text of his side deal showed that this exactly what had been agreed to, they were forced to either claim that it was fake (the truther scenario) or that it didn't matter even if it was true. The argument from deal backers like Max Fisher at Vox was that Parchin was a relic that had been abandoned by Iran in 2003. He claimed there wasn't anything to be found there that could possibly help the regime cheat on the nuclear deal or even to give the West the information it needs about past military research that provides a baseline for estimates about the "breakout" time to a bomb.
If Iran is doing construction at the site or even adding on to it, it's clear that Parchin is more than a big hole in the ground that has already been swept clean as the deal's supporters claim. I don't know what is going on there. But the point is neither does President Obama, let alone his cheerleaders in the chattering class.
That's why it ought to be absolutely essential that Parchin be visited by IAEA inspectors rather than outsourcing their work to the Iranians. This latest twist in the Parchin story removes even the fig leaf of credibility that might have attached to previous stands that rested on the notion that nothing was happening there.
The fact that the IAEA was forced to accept this humiliation is troubling because it reflects the administration's lack of seriousness in finding answers about Iran's past work on possible military dimensions of its nuclear program. Though Secretary of State John Kerry assured Congress that the deal wouldn't go forward without such knowledge, it appears now that this issue is being finessed in such a way as to pay lip service to it but not to actually find out the answers. And without those answers the calculations about how long it will take Iran to build a bomb, either during the course of the agreement by cheating, or immediately after it expires, are pure speculation.
But this is about more than Parchin.
This process sets the tone for the implementation of the deal that is already far from the rigorous inspection process we were promised. The 24-day warning period was not only not the "anytime, anywhere" inspections that was expected to be part of the deal. It also sets down a template that gives Iran a veto power over personal inspections at its military sites. Anyone who thinks that Iran won't do their best to obstruct inspections knows nothing about the regime. And anyone who thinks President Obama or a Democratic successor would be prepared to pull the plug on the deal know nothing about them or their lust for détente with a rabidly anti-Semitic, terror-supporting regime.
It is not clear at this point whether any of the remaining undecided votes in the House or Senate can be influenced by the facts about the deal. Political pressure from the White House and left wing groups appears to count more for wavering Democrats than their obligations toward U.S. security.
Few of them actually believe the deal is any good. All know that it failed to meet the administration's own objectives. But the Parchin construction adds on to the concerns that the text of the side deal raised. Iran is being allowed to get away with murder in an inspections process that is a joke.
If lawmakers don't take this into consideration when they vote on the deal, the same will be able to be said of their approach to a life and death issue.
'Iran will bolster military until Israel defeated, Palestinians free' - http://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/Iran/IRGC-commander-Iran-will-bolster-military-until-Israel-defeated-Palestinians-free-414983
"We will continue defending not just our own country, but also all the oppressed people of the world, especially those countries standing on the forefront of confrontation with the Zionists."
Iran will continue to bolster its military capabilities until it has defeated Israel and gained freedom for the Palestinians, a senior Iranian Revolutionary Guard commander vowed Wednesday.
"They (the US and the Zionists) should know that the Islamic Revolution will continue enhancing its preparedness until it overthrows Israel and liberates Palestine," Iran's Fars News Agency quoted Brigadier General Mohsen Kazzemeini as saying. Kazzemeini is the IRGC's top commander in the Tehran Province.
"We will continue defending not just our own country, but also all the oppressed people of the world, especially those countries that are standing on the forefront of confrontation with the Zionists," he said.
Several top Iranian officials have sought to put to rest speculation that the recently signed nuclear deal with world powers would spell a change in the Islamic Republic's policy toward Israel.
British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said last month after reopening the British Embassy in Tehran that the Iranian government had displayed a more nuanced approach than its predecessor to the long-running conflict with Israel.
The Iranian Parliament Speaker's Adviser for International Affairs, Hossein Sheikholeslam, rejected that notion, saying, "Our positions against the usurper Zionist regime have not changed at all; Israel should be annihilated and this is our ultimate slogan."
Iran nuclear deal will not bring "peace for our time" - Joel C. Rosenberg - https://flashtrafficblog.wordpress.com/2015/09/02/iran-nuclear-deal-will-not-bring-peace-for-our-time-tehran-engaged-in-massive-military-shopping-spree-in-russia-could-this-trigger-an-israeli-first-strike/
Iran nuclear deal will not bring "peace for our time." Tehran engaged in "massive military shopping spree" in Russia. Also set to receive S-300 missile system by end of year. Could this trigger an Israeli first strike?
Despite President Obama's insistence that his nuclear deal with Iran will make the world safer and more secure, it is already driving Iran's leaders into a "massive military shopping spree" in Russia that will make the Mideast and the world far more dangerous.
For example, Iran's leaders say they expect to take possession of the Russian S-300 missile system - the most advanced anti-aircraft missile system ever built by the Kremlin - by the end of the year. This billion-dollar system, which Iran has been seeking for years, is state-of-the-art. It would make it far more difficult for any nation's air force to successfully strike Iran's nuclear sites in the future.
This raises a sobering question. Does the Israeli government consider the procurement and imminent deployment of the S-300 system in Iran a "red line"? That is, would such a development force Israel's hand by persuading her leaders to launch a massive preemptive strike before the S-300 could become operational?
Recent news reports indicate Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu and his Security Cabinet have come close to authorizing such strikes as many as three times in the past, but concluded in each instance that the time wasn't right. Last week on Fox News, I said I hoped Israel wouldn't have to strike any time soon, but could wait to see if a new President is elected in November 2016 that was a far more faithful friend. If so, Israel might not have to strike at all. It could hopefully trust a new American President to nullify the Iran deal, re-impose economic sanctions, strengthen the American military option, and take whatever action became necessary to decisively neutralize the Iran nuclear threat.
Yet the intensification of the Russian-Iranian alliance, the massive purchase of arms, and the deployment of the S-300 could change the equation. The Israeli Prime Minister and Security Cabinet may rapidly face a dynamic not entirely dissimilar to the Cuban Missile Crisis when President Kennedy and his top advisors felt they had to prepare for a massive preemptive strike on Cuba before Soviet nuclear missiles there could be made operational.
Thank God that in the end the Soviets backed down and Kennedy did not have to order the attack in 1962. Yet today, the arrival of Russian missiles in a highly volatile environment is once again raising the threat of war.
WHAT'S HAPPENING IN WASHINGTON?
Congress should be requiring President Obama to follow the U.S. Constitution and submit the Iran accord to the Senate as a foreign treaty. If it did in the current environment, the treaty would not win 67 votes. It would thus not become law. It would thus be dead-on-arrival.
However, Congress is not following the Constitution.
A vote will likely be taken in Washington by September 17, requiring Members of the House and Senate to go on the record "for" or "against" the deal. But this in and of itself will not stop the President. It won't prevent the administration from implementing this insane agreement, one that legalizes and protects Iran's massively dangerous, destabilizing and until-now-illegal nuclear program.
So the President is poised to get what he wants - a free hand to implement his nuclear deal against the will of the majority of the American people and their representatives in Congress.
But the President will not make the world safer. He is refusing to learn the lessons of history, and appears to be doomed to repeat them. Let me explain.
On July 14th, President announced his "historic" nuclear deal with Iran, assuring the American people of confidence that after engaging the Iranian leadership he was, in fact, making the world safer and more peaceful.
"Today, after two years of negotiations, the United States, together with our international partners, 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," insisted the President.
"This deal demonstrates that American diplomacy can bring about real and meaningful change - change that makes our country, and the world, safer and more secure," Mr. Obama added. "This deal offers an opportunity to move in a new direction....a different path, one of tolerance and peaceful resolution of conflict."
To many, the President's remarks echoed those of British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain who struck a deal with Adolf Hitler - the "Munich Pact" - claiming to have "solved" the challenge of the rising Nazi threat to Czechoslovakia and Europe, and to have secured "peace for our time."
"The settlement of the Czechoslovakian problem, which has now been achieved, is in my view only the prelude to a larger settlement in which all Europe may find peace," Mr. Chamberlain declared on September 30, 1938. "This morning I had another talk with the German Chancellor Herr Hitler and here is the paper which bears his name upon it as well as mine. Some of you, perhaps, have already heard what it contains, but I would just like to read it to you. 'We, the German Fuhrer and Chancellor, and the British Prime Minister have had a further meeting today and are agreed in recognizing that the question of Anglo-German relations is of the first importance for the two countries and for Europe. We regard the agreement signed last night, and the Anglo-German naval agreement, as symbolic of the desire of our two peoples never to go to war with one another again."
"My good friends, for the second time in our history, a British Prime Minister has returned from Germany bringing peace with honor," Mr. Chamberlain added. "I believe it is 'peace for our time.' Go home and get a nice quiet sleep."
Less than a year later, however, on March 15, 1939, Adolf Hitler and his Nazi forces invaded Czechoslovakia.
On September 1, 1939, Adolf Hitler and his Nazi forces invaded Poland.
Very rapidly, all of Europe - and soon all the world - was engulfed in a horrific, deadly, catastrophic war.
What went wrong? Chamberlain fundamentally misread Hitler's intentions. The "Munich Pact" did not represent Hitler's "desire...never to go to war." Rather, it represented the Fuhrer's calculated effort to buy time and lull the West into a false sense of security until he and his war machine were built up and ready to strike with full fury.
Today, President Obama either cannot or will not properly assess the apocalyptic, genocidal intentions of Iranian Ayatollah Khamenei and his senior leadership. The Iranian leaders hold to a deeply dangerous End Times theology. They have candidly and repeatedly vowed to annihilate the United States and Israel. They have declared these goals official Iranian policy. And they are now using this insane nuclear deal to buy time and lull the West into a false sense of security and their war machine is built up and they are ready to strike with full fury.
Prime Minister Netanyahu understands the threat of "Apocalyptic Islam." I know because I've discussed it with him.
President Obama does not, or will not.
Now Russia is helping arm the world's worst state sponsor of terrorism, a regime that seeks to bring about the End of Days.
God help us all.
Iranian official: We will never recognize Israel - http://www.globes.co.il/en/article-iranian-official-we-will-never-recognize-israel-1001065035
The remarks by an advisor to Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei undercut reports that Iran had shown greater flexibility on Israel.
A senior figure in the Iranian regime has denied claims by Western sources that the regime has changed direction on Israel, declaring that Iran will never consent to "the occupation and dispossession by the Zionist regime", Channel 2 television reports. Meanwhile, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu continues diplomatic efforts to scuttle the nuclear agreement signed by the five powers plus the European Union with Iran, but has said that Israel does not object to an Iranian nuclear program, as long as it is for civilian purposes only.
British Foreign Secretary Phillip Hammond said last week that Iran had presented a more flexible stance on the confrontation with Israel. Ali Akbar Velayati, a senior adviser on international affairs to Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, talked tough in a meeting yesterday with religious leaders from Pakistan, and contradicted Hammond's statement. "We will never recognize Israel," he said.
"They occupy and dispossess, and we will not become resigned to this situation, contrary to what people say," Velayati stressed. He said Western attempts to make Muslim countries recognize Israel had failed. "That is good, because the Palestinian people must continue to fight until the territories are reconquered," he said.
Last week, after Hammond's visit to Teheran, the Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs declared that Israel "has no place in diplomatic talks with Britain; there are no talks with the Zionist regime." A senior member of the Iranian parliament said that "Israel must be annihilated that is our constant slogan."
Netanyahu, on a visit to Italy, commented on Israel's stance towards Iran at a joint press conference with Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi. "The barbarism of the Islamic state organization ISIS is what has held the world's attention, and rightly so. But I believe that the threat from another Islamic state, the Islamic state of Iran, is far worse, particularly it's striving for nuclear weapons."
Netanyahu emphasized that Israel did not object to a civilian nuclear program in Iran. "We oppose a military nuclear program in Iran. Regrettably, the deal with Iran allows it to keep and expand a formidable nuclear infrastructure that is completely unnecessary for civilian nuclear purposes, but is entirely necessary for the production of nuclear weapons."
The prime minister warned: "The deal will allow the Iranians within 13 years to maintain as many centrifuges as they want and to enrich as much uranium as they want to any level they want. That will bring the Islamic state of Iran which practices terrorism worldwide to the threshold of an entire nuclear arsenal."
Meanwhile, US President Obama, speaking to American Jewish organizations by webcast, said last week that the agreement with Iran "blocks every way, every pathway that Iran might take in order to obtain a nuclear weapon." He stressed that US support for Israel was "sacrosanct" and "non-partisan", and criticized the virulence of attacks that had been made on Democratic members of Congress who had come out in favor of the agreement.
Obama expressed the hope that relations between the US and Israel would get back to normal once the agreement was ratified. "As soon as this part of the debate is over, my hope is that the Israeli government will immediately want to rejoin conversations we started long before on how we can enhance Israeli security in a very troubled neighborhood," he said, citing measures he had taken in the past to bolster military aid to Israel, such as support for Israel's Iron Dome rocket defense system.
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