Friday, May 04, 2007

Iran: A careful look before a US leap

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The IRGC (Pasdaran-e Inqilab)
The Revolutionary Guards' "Special Services" or Department of Security and Foreign Intelligence provides funds and arms to Islamic groups around the world. It provides support for both the Hezbollah and Hamas movements. Importantly, it also is in overall control of the al-Quds (Jerusalem) groups. Al-Quds has reportedly some 50,000 highly motivated fighters, including some 12,000 or more Arabic-speaking Iranians, Afghans, Iraqis, Lebanese Shi'ites and North Africans trained in Iran or during the Afghan wars.

Al-Quds may prove to be the most significant of Iran's possible military options for retaliation. It has helped Hezbollah establish armed groups in Lebanon, Iraqi Kurdistan, Jordan, Somalia, Sudan and Palestine and Islamic Jihad militants in Egypt, Turkey, Chechnya, Kosovo and many other Muslim countries and regions.
Al-Quds is in effect the long arm of the Islamic Revolution abroad. To Abbas Milani, director of Iranian studies at Stanford University, it "is the hand-picked elite of an already elite ideological army".

Some observers believe it is also behind the creation of large numbers of deep-cover terrorist cell networks in Europe and North America, and in pro-Western countries. It is these cells that will prove almost impossible for Western security services to identify and destroy; it is these cells that could cause immense structural damage to highly industrialized economies.

Not just terrorism
The danger to the United States and Europe extends well beyond the threat posed by Tehran's terrorist networks. As one expert observer pointed out, "Iran now exercises tremendous economic and political influence through its oil production, its control of the Persian Gulf's strategic Strait of Hormuz, and its growing influence in OPEC [the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries], the United Nations, the Non-Aligned Movement, the Economic Cooperation Organization, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization and the World Islamic Council."

The source of Iran's growing influence, oil and gas, is likely to remain firmly off any future US target list. The consequences for worldwide economic stability caused by the loss of Iran's energy production could be staggering.

4 comments:

  1. The Kings of the Medes in play(Jer 51:11)

    Many believe this idol called America can never ever fall. They will be surprised.

    Of course, she will fight like her very survival depends on it, cuz it does. That means every possible weapon available, including nuclear, called to use. That is why it'll be so bad.

    And it'll be framed as a religious war by many, historically the most violent and bloody. When people think they are 'fighting for God' they go all out.

    Irony being, God is the One stirring them up, so they will be fighting AGAINST Him. That means defeat is assured.

    God MUST remove this idol, because if God 'let's us win', all the wickedness and apostasy and dominionist thinking will be justified. America really WILL be seen as the saviour nation of many Christians, and the false theology that stems from that will be firmly established and endorsed by God. Bush will be vindicated as the false messiah many think him to be, and our foreign policy likewise. That means American Empire, and the end of any illusion of freedom we have left.

    So either way, the outcome is not good. Our judgment will be in proportion to our apostasy.

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  2. Never fear!! when you read this you can know there is no recovery for America.
    http://www.prophetofdoom.net/Islam_Commentary.Islam

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  3. The Christians who love not the truth have fallen for one too many big lie's.
    The lie of a pre-trib rapture and the lie that President Bush is a Christian.
    I often wonder ;'How can they be so blind ????
    What this strong delusion that SNARES them tells me is that their heart is not with God and His soon coming Kingdom.
    They look to their Idol leader and nation to save them.
    Neither of their hopes will be realized.
    They're in for a major shaking when they realize the tribulation is upon them and thet're still here.
    Many will fall away because their Santa Claus jesus let them down and left them here to suffer and be refined like gold.
    He's returning ,but at the last trump.
    I removed the link to Chamish because he too much about confusion and selling his discs and books.

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  4. That's fine, cause he is!! but I just found interesting some of the the things he said...

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