Rumors of War: Saudis Aiming Missiles at Israel and Iran

Article Source Israelnationalnews.com

Chinese Ballistic Missiles  

Saudi Arabia is targeting both Israel and Iran with powerful ballistic missiles, new satellite photography shown by military experts to the BritishTelegraph suggests.

Images analyzed by experts at IHS Jane's Intelligence Review has revealed a previously undisclosed surface-to-surface missile base deep in the Saudi desert, with capabilities for hitting both countries, theTelegraph reported on Wednesday.

Analysts who examined the photos spotted two launch pads with markings pointing northwest towards Tel Aviv and northeast towards Tehran, according to the report.

The pads are designed for Saudi Arabia's arsenal of lorry-launched DF 3 missiles, which have a range of 1,500-2,500 miles and can carry a two-ton payload.

The base, believed to have been built within the last five years, gives an insight into Saudi strategic thinking at a time of heightened tensions in the Gulf.

While Saudi Arabia does not have formal diplomatic relations with Israel, it has long maintained discreet back channel communications as part of attempts to promote stability in the region.

The two countries also have a mutual enemy in Iran, though, which has long seen Saudi Arabia as a rival power in the Gulf. Experts fear that if Iran obtains a nuclear weapon, Saudi Arabia would seek to follow suit.

Analysts at IHS Jane's told the Telegraph that the kingdom is currently in the process of upgrading its missiles, although even the DF3, which dates back to the 1980s, is itself potentially big enough to carry a nuclear device.

The missile base, which is at al-Watah, around 125 miles southwest of the Saudi capital, Riyadh, was discovered during a project by IHS Jane's to update their assessment of Saudi Arabia's military capabilities.

It serves as both a training and launch facility, with the missiles stored in an underground silo built into a rocky hillside, according to the Telegraph. To the north of the facility are two circle-shaped launch pads, both with compass-style markings showing the precise direction that the launchers should fire in.

The Chinese-made missiles, which date back to the 1980s, are not remotely-guided and therefore have to be positioned in the direction of their target before firing.

"One appears to be aligned on a bearing of approximately 301 degrees and suggesting a potential Israeli target, and the other is oriented along an azimuth (bearing) of approximately 10 degrees, ostensibly situated to target Iranian locations," said the IHS Jane's article quoted by the Telegraph.

While the lorry-launched missiles can theoretically be fired from any location, the idea of having pre-planned directional markers is to ensure that they can be deployed in accurate fashion as quickly as possible, said Allison Puccioni, an image expert at IHS Jane's.

"There is a marked out spot for the launch truck to park in, which will facilitate an expedited launch," she told the Telegraph.

Robert Munks, deputy editor of IHS Jane's Intelligence Review, told the newspaper, “Our assessment suggests that this base is either partly or fully operational, with the launch pads pointing in the directions of Israel and Iran respectively. We cannot be certain that the missiles are pointed specifically at Tel Aviv and Tehran themselves, but if they were to be launched, you would expect them to be targeting major cities.

"We do not want to make too many inferences about the Saudi strategy, but clearly Saudi Arabia does not enjoy good relations with either Iran or Israel," he added.

Officials at the Saudi Embassy in London did not get back with a response when contacted by The Telegraph. The Israeli Embassy in London said. "We have no comment on this matter."

Urgent Prayer Alert: Washington and Jerusalem at Odd over Iran Nuke Program

Source: Jewish Voices Ministries International

Just got this e-mail this morning from Jewish Voices Ministries International, making an appeal for urgent prayer in regards to USA President Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

   

Tensions Between Washington and Jerusalem Break Into Open View

  

It is no secret that the relationship between U.S. President Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu has been strained. The two men reportedly do not trust each other, and the tension between their differing objectives has only increased the divide. The most central issue is the one posed by Iran’s nuclear program. The recent NIE (National Intelligence Estimate) report from Washington revealed that Iran is making much more rapid progress in their nuclear work than had previously been thought.

Each side faces a critical upcoming event. For Washington, that event is the November election. An outbreak of war in the Middle East would have serious economic impact on the entire world, and that in turn could greatly influence the outcome of the vote, and they are striving to prevent war prior to the election. For Jerusalem, that event is when Iran reaches the “zone of immunity”—the point at which conventional military action will not be able to prevent them from completing their nuclear work.

The latest reports are that Iran has now placed at least 5,000 centrifuges in the underground nuclear facility at Fordow. This site, constructed deep inside a mountain near the Iranian holy city of Qom, would be difficult if not impossible to destroy with anything short of a tactical nuclear attack or a ground invasion.

While both sides agree that a nuclear Iran is not acceptable, their assessment of the time remaining to solve the problem is very different. Israel’s Ambassador to the U.S., Michael Oren, said Israel’s clock is “ticking faster” than the one in America. It remains unclear whether Israel will take action before November, and if so, to what extent America will support them.

It is crucial that we continue to pray for the peace of Jerusalem, and I encourage you today to do so from a position of faith. We do not know the future, but God does, and He is in control of everything that happens on the world stage.

Israel ex-spy warns against "messianic" war on Iran

Story Source Reuters







Former Israeli Spymaster Yuval Diskin Warns Against Attacking Iran

A former Israeli spymaster has branded the country's leaders unfit to tackle the Iranian nuclear program and "messianic" in the strongest criticism from a security veteran of threats to launch a pre-emptive war.

Other veterans have come out against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defence Minister Ehud Barak.

But the censure from Yuval Diskin, who retired as head of the Shin Bet domestic intelligence service last year, was especially strong and unusual in using the language of religious fervor that Israelis associate with Islamist foes.

"I have no faith in the prime minister, nor in the defence minister," Diskin said in remarks broadcast by Israeli media on Saturday. "I really don't have faith in a leadership that makes decisions out of messianic feelings."

The Prime Minister's Office and Defence Ministry had no immediate response to Diskin's remarks. But Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman rebuked Diskin and questioned his motives.

The catastrophic terms with which Netanyahu and Barak describe the prospect of a nuclear-armedIran have stirred concern in Israel and abroad of a possible strike against its uranium enrichment program. Iran says the project is entirely peaceful and has promised wide-ranging reprisals for any attack.

World powers, sharing Israeli suspicions Iran has a covert bomb-making plan, are trying to curb it through sanctions and negotiations. Those talks resume in Baghdad next month, but Barak on Thursday rated their chance of succeeding as low.

Although Israel has long threatened a pre-emptive strike if diplomacy fails, some experts believe that could be a bluff to keep up pressure on the Iranians, making it harder to interpret the swirl of comments from the security establishment.

In a commentary on Diskin's remarks, Amos Harel of the liberal newspaper Haaretz wrote that the temperature was rising ahead of the nuclear talks.

"Nothing has been determined in the Iranian story, and the spring is about to boil over into another summer of tension," he wrote.

FALSE IMPRESSION

Diskin spoke days after Israel's top military commander, Lieutenant-General Benny Gantz, told Haaretz he viewed Iran as "very rational" and unlikely to build a bomb, comments that apparently undermined the case for a strike.

The former Shin Bet chief was specifically damning of Netanyahu and Barak, who have often crafted strategy alone and whose rapport dates back four decades to when they served together in a top-secret commando unit.

"They're creating a false impression about the Iranian issue," Diskin told a private gathering on Friday, where the comments were recorded. "They're appealing to the stupid public, if you'll pardon me for the phrasing, and telling them that if Israel acts, there won't be an (Iranian) nuclear bomb."

Diskin said he was not necessarily opposed to an attack on Iran, though he cited experts who argue this risked backfiring by accelerating its nuclear program.

Netanyahu's former Mossad foreign intelligence director, Meir Dagan, last year also ridiculed the Israeli war option.

Diskin went a step further by saying that Netanyahu and Barak were not up to the job of opening an unprecedented front with Iran and, potentially, with its allies on Israel's borders.

Netanyahu is a second-term premier with solid public approval ratings and a broad conservative coalition. Barak, a former prime minister, is Israel's most decorated soldier.

"I have seen them up close," Diskin said. "They are not messiahs, the two of them, and they are not people who I personally, at least, trust to be able to lead Israel into an event on such a scale, and to extricate it."

Foreign Minister Lieberman said questions such as how and if to tackle Iran "are not made by the prime minister and defence minister. They are usually made in the security cabinet or cabinet."

Lieberman suggested to Israel's Channel Two television that Diskin might be angry at being passed over for the job as head of the Mossad.

Iran and Syria Dream of a New World Order

President Ahmadinejad and President Assad

Iran and Syria have a strong alliance. Both countries support Hezbollah.  Hezbollah receives military training, weapons, and financial support from Iran.  Syria provides the with political support (source). All three share a vision to totally wipe the nation of Israel off the face of the Earth.  Iran, Syria, and Hezbollah are Shia Muslims (Syria's ruling party are the Alwai Muslims which are self describe Shia Muslims.  All share in the belief of the soon coming 12th Imam Mahdi (source).  


Iranian's President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Syria's President, Bashar Al-Assad have a great relationship with each other. In May of 2009 The Middle East Media Research Institute (Memri) stated:


"Mahmoud Ahmadinejad met with Bashar Al -Assad in Damascus, Syria.  In a joint statement issued after the meeting, the two declared the relations between Iran and Syria were strategic and served as example to the region and to the world at large. 
They added that Iran and Syria were leading dramatic transformation in the region, as part of a new world order which would replace the old order that the U.S. has led since World War II (source)." 


Ahmadinejad believes that the appearance of the Madhi (Islamic Messiah) will be ushered in if he brings the destruction of Israel and the United States.  He is dedicated to his role to bring this to pass and to fulfill the Shia Prophecies.  Shiite teaching states that it is within man's power to facilitate the process of the end of days (source). 

Iran and Syria Vision of a New World Order

President Ahmadinejad's vision of his New World Order would be the destruction of Israel as a nation and to usher in the reign of the 12th Imam Mahdi. The Mahdi will establish Islam as a one world religion and a one world government.  The signs of the Mahdi will be:

1. He won't come in odd year (using Islamic calendar).
2. He will make his appearance in Mecca.
3. He will travel from Mecca to Kufa (in Iraq).
4. He will be a young man of medium stature with a handsome and shinig face and long beautiful hair that flows onto his shoulders.
5. He will be 40 years old at the time of his emergence.
6. He will remove all injustice and the entire world will experience overflowing prosperity.
7. Jesus will return with him and be his deputy.
8. The 313 who fought with the Prophet Muhammad at the battle of Badr will also return.
9. People will recognize him because there will be an angel above his head shouting, "This is the Mahdi, follow him."
10. The other imams and prophets of former ages will return.
11. He will wear a ring that belonged to King Solomon.
12. He will carry the wooden staff that Moses held when parting the Red Sea.
13. His army 313 grown into 50,000(50 will be women).
14. He will rule for seven years. (source) 

How would Jesus act as Mahdi deputy in this New World Order, you ask?  Islamic Jesus(Isa) will be the overseer of the institution and enforcement of Islamic shariah law.  He will descend and lead judgment according to the holy Quran.  He will be a great Islamic evangelist that will correct misrepresentations made by Jews and Christians.  He will point people to worship the Mahdi.  He will abolish Christianity and will remain on Earth for forty years, marry,  have children and then die.  He will then be buried next to the Prophet Muhammad (source).  


This is the New World Order that Ahmadinejad and Bashar envision for the world.  It will be a one-world Islamic government and a one-world Islamic religion ruled by the Mahdi.  And assisting the Mahdi will be Jesus. This is a similar scenario written about in Revelations 13 regarding the Antichrist and the False Prophet.  Interestingly enough, some End-Time Prophecy teachers are teaching this now and it could be a possible scenario.


Stories might also like:

 Prince of Persia: Iran President the 21st Century Haman


February Interfaith Week (March to One World Religion)

 Rick Warren: Purpose Driven for One World Religion

Islamic Terrorist Group Partner with Mexican Drug Cartels

      

Prince of Persia: Iran President the 21st Century Haman

The current President of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, believes his presi­dency is for the purpose of the apocalypse.  He believes that if he is able to destroy of the nation of Israel through nu­clear holocaust and bring about war, chaos, and bloodshed in the world, it will usher in the hidden 12th Imam, otherwise known as the Islamic messiah.  President Ahmadinejad has claimed the uprisings/riots in Egypt, North Africa, and around the Middle East is the work of the 12th Imam  .

Principalities and Prince of Persia

Principalities control the main beliefs of the people in a region or territory. In other words, the people of a particular region or terri­tory are under the authority of that specific demonic principality. Demonic principalities have long existed in Iran (ancient Persia).  Daniel 10:13 speaks about how the prince of Persia held up Daniel’s response to his prayer for 21days.  This same principality is at work today in Iran.  We have to remember that we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of darkness of this world and against spiritual wickedness in high places (Ephesians 6:12). One can liken it to a puppeteer pull­ing the strings of a puppet. The nation of Iran may look like its being controlled by President Ahmadinejad (fleshly leader), but in actuality Iran is ruled and controlled by the demonic principality of the prince of Persia.  Ahmadinejad is the puppet and the prince of Persia is the puppeteer pulling the strings.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Hatred of Israel

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has an intense hatred for the nation of Israel.  He has stated on record that the World War II holo­caust of the Jews never happened.  Also, in June 2006 he stated that he wanted Israel wiped off the map.  It is not a new thing in Persian history that a leader has intense hatred for Jews. The book of Esther tells us the story of Haman the Agagite, the Prime Minister of Per­sia.  He devised a sinister plan to destroy all the Jews in the Persian empire at that time (Esther 3:6).  The same spirit that drove Haman to destroy the Jews in Persia has been passed down through the centuries...from Antiochus Ephiphanes’s plot in the second century B.C., to Adolph Hitler’s plot in Europe’s Nazi Germany during World War II.

Nazi/Islamic/Iranian Connection

Ironically it is no surprise Ahmadinejad personifies the Persian version of Hitler.  Iran had close ties with Nazi Germany before and during World War II.  Iran was allied with Nazi Germany and was a supplier of oil to Nazi forces in Austria and Czechoslovakia.  During this period in Tehran it was common to see placards in the market­place that declared, “In heaven Allah is your master, and on Earth it is Adolf Hitler (source, source).” Tehran was used as a Nazi base in the Middle East during World War II. Nazi-Germany had a strong base of Arab-Muslims throughout the Middle East including the Palestinian Lib­eration Organization whose famous leader was Yasser Arafat, and Ba’ath Party the political party of the former Iraqi President Sad­dam Hussein.  Also the Muslim Brotherhood had connection with Hitler run Nazi-Germany.

Is Ahmadinejad Under the Influence of Demon/Jinn?

Ahmadinejad claims to hear voices that drive him to take jihad on Israel, the United States, and the western world.  He is determined to acquire and use nuclear weapons. This man is not afraid of the United Na­tion sanction.  His belief is that he is on mission from Allah, and his goal is to see the rise of the Islamic messiah.  In his world all Jews and Christians are infidels and must be put to death.

Some of the Iranian clerics claim that some of President Ahmadinejad associates are into black magic, and the summoning of genie's(demons/jinns). Ahmadinejad and some of the members of his cabinet consult with one of the most powerful sorcereres in Iran, Seyed Sadigh, to summons his jinn and to lead and direct government officials to give direction(source).

The spirit of the prince of Persia is strong in Iran. The same spirit that once possessed Haman is now leading it’s new host body Mah­moud Ahmadinejad with the goal of destroying the nation of Israel.

End of America?: Terrorism Arising Out of Mexico

This video is an update from the article we did back on September 21, 2011, called Islamic Terrorist Group Partner with Mexican Drug Cartel. A couple of weeks later on October 11, story broke that the United States Government foiled terrorist plot that Iran was attempting to make with the Zeta Mexican Drug Cartel. Fortunately the Iranian-American who was attempting to make a deal with what he thought was one of the leaders of the Zeta Drug Cartel, was actually a DEA informant. We must continue to intercede in prayer for our nation.