Possible Radical Alliance Between Egypt and Iran

Source Atlanta Black Star

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad used an Islamic summit in Cairo to try to thaw frigid relations with Egypt by meeting with President Mohamed Morsi and to stress Iran’s support of the Palestinians by meeting with Palestinian National Authority President Mahmoud Abbas.

It was the first visit to Cairo by an Iranian leader in 34 years, but Egypt downplayed the significance of the meeting, saying it was routine to entertain visiting foreign leaders. Egypt has many reasons to keep Iran at arms length, particularly considering how much of an international pariah Ahmadinejad has become, especially to the U.S. and Israel, two nations with whom Morsi is keen on maintaining cordial relations.

But Ahmadinejad was not in a downplaying mood, saying he wanted a stronger alliance with Egypt and even offering the financially struggling nation a loan. He announced that Egyptian tourists and merchants would no longer require visas to visit Iran.

This renewed engagement between the two countries comes as the White House announced that President Obama would be visiting Israel, Jordan and the West Bank next month, likely on March 20, re-inserting himself into the tense atmosphere in the region in an effort to restart the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, which failed miserably the first time he tried early in his first term.

Egypt, with a population of 83 million, and Iran, with a population of 75 million, are the two most populous nations in the region, but their relations were cut off in 1979, when then-Egyptian President Anwar Sadat entered a peace treaty with Israel and Iran was under the hostile throes of the Grand Ayatollah Khomeini. Over the years, the relations grew worse after Iran named a street in Tehran’s business district after Khaled Islambouli, the ringleader of the group responsible for assassinating Sadat. A mural of Islambouli added insult to injury. On the other side, Egypt offered asylum to the despised Shah of Iran after he fled his country.

In addition to concerns about how others would view Morsi’s engagement with Ahmadinejad, there is also the matter of religion. Many Egyptians still look with suspicion on Shi’ite Islamist Iran because Egypt is a predominantly Sunni Muslim nation. Also, Egypt is not pleased about Iran’s support for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

As usual, Ahmadinejad blamed their frosty relations on outside forces.

“We must all understand that the only option is to set up this alliance because it is in the interests of the Egyptian and Iranian peoples and other nations of the region,” the official MENA news agency quoted him as telling Egyptian journalists.

“There are those striving to prevent these two great countries from coming together despite the fact that the region’s problems require this meeting, especially the Palestinian question,” Ahmadinejad said.

According to the Al-Ahram daily, Ahmadinejad offered to lend money to Egypt even though Iran is still suffering under international economic sanctions over its nuclear program.

“I have said previously that we can offer a big credit line to the Egyptian brothers, and many services,” he said.

Ahmadinejad said the Iranian economy had been affected by sanctions but it is a “great economy” that was witnessing “positive matters,” saying exports were increasing gradually.

“No change happened in the last two years but discussions between us developed and grew, and His Excellency President Mohamed Morsi visited Iran and met us, as he met the Iranian foreign minister. And we previously contacted Egypt to know about what is happening with Syrian affairs,” he said.

In his meeting with Palestinian leader Abbas, Ahmadinejad emphasized that Iran will defend the rights of the Palestinian people at all international organizations, according to the Tehran Times. He said that as Israel has become very weak, a bright future will await Palestinians if they remain adamant in their resistance struggle.

Abbas responded, “The Iranian brothers have stood by the oppressed Palestinian people under all circumstances and the Palestinian nation appreciates this help.”

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

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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.


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