DEBKAfile Exclusive: Obama weighs action to prevent Al Qaeda grabbing Syrian WMD
The US president is trying to persuade Russian President Vladimir Putin to accept his new plan for the immediate assignment by the UN Security Council of 3,000 armed monitors to Syria to take charge of the six chemical and biological stores.

Satellite images show Iran site buildings 'completely razed,' says U.S. think-tank - Haaretz Daily Newspaper
A U.S. security institute has published satellite images which it said increased concerns that Iran was trying to "destroy evidence" of suspected past research relevant for developing a nuclear weapons capability, a charge Tehran dismisses.

Report: Iran using passenger jets to smuggle weapons to Syria, Lebanon

Damascus

Obama nixes French-Saudi plan to finish Assad by bombing his palace: US President Obama recently vetoed a detailed Franco-Saudi plan for ending President Bashar Assad’s rule by means of a massive air strike against his palace that would at one fell swoop wipe him, his family and top leadership circle out.

Bombing Assad's palace to end the civil war was ruled out . Will all of Damascus pay for that decision?

Isaiah 17:

1 A prophecy against Damascus:

“See, Damascus will no longer be a city
    but will become a heap of ruins.

Iran: Yaalon Confirmed Israel is behind Flame
Semi-official Iranian news agency Fars seized upon statements by Israeli Vice Prime Minister Moshe Yaalon Tuesday as proof that Israel engineered an exceedingly sophisticated program dubbed Flame that has been spying on computers in Iran.

Cyber war precedes outright military assault

Not a difficult prediction at all.

Iran’s Mehmanparast Says ‘Soft War’ Cyber Attacks to Fail - Businessweek
 Iran’s Foreign Ministry said cyber- attacks against the Islamic republic are launched by hostile governments as part of a broader “soft war” and will fail.

Yaalon, a former army chief, also told Israel’s Army Radio today that “Israel is blessed as a country rich in advanced technology, and these tools open to us all sorts of possibilities.”

Joel 3:

“In those days and at that time,
    when I restore the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem [post-May 14, 1948]
² I will gather all nations
    and bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat.
There I will put them on trial
    for what they did to my inheritance, my people Israel,
because they scattered my people among the nations
    and divided up my land. 

^...

⁹ Proclaim this among the nations:
    Prepare for war!
Rouse the warriors!
    Let all the fighting men draw near and attack.
¹⁰ Beat your plowshares into swords
    and your pruning hooks into spears.
Let the weakling say,
    “I am strong!”
¹¹ Come quickly, all you nations from every side,
    and assemble there.

Russian arms ship turned away from Syria
UN's Annan was back in Damascus Tuesday holding talks with the Syrian ruler. It his hard to see how he can salvage even a vestige of his mission when the Syrian ruler has broken every commitment he made from the word go a month ago.

Russian freighter Professor Katsman sneaked to Tartous violating Syria arms embargo - Maritime Bulletin
Now there is no signal, meaning the vessel switched AIS off in order to get off the public radar.

 

Iran: No reason to halt 20 percent uranium enrichment despite international demands - The Washington Post: Iran’s nuclear chief said Sunday there are no reasons at the moment for his country to halt production of uranium enriched to 20 percent, a key demand of world powers, and Iran is planning two new reactors.

Panetta Says U.S. Now Ready to Attack Iran | Pakalert Press: On Sunday U.S. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta said the United States is “ready from a military perspective’’ to attack Iran under the guise of preventing it from obtaining nuclear weapons.

Iran confirms sending troops to Syria
Islamic Republic admits its forces are aiding Assad's regime in crackdown on pro-democracy protesters; UN's tally of fatalities in Syrian uprising is at 13,000.

Panetta slams Pakistan's demand for $5G per truck at border crossing
The U.S. used to pay $250 for every truck that crossed before the attack. Now with the crossings still closed, Pakistan wants $5,000.

Nice to know who your friends are

Pakistani Doctor Who Helped Locate Bin Laden Jailed for 33 Years - Bloomberg
A Pakistani doctor who helped the U.S. track down Osama bin Laden was found guilty of treason and sentenced to 33 years in jail.

 

Traces of uranium enriched to 27% found at Iranian nuclear site | The Times of Israel
 The International Atomic Energy Agency says in a report that its experts have found particles enriched up to 27 percent at the Fordo nuclear facility. That is higher than the 20 percent declared by Iran and closer to the weapons-grade material used in the fissile core of such missiles.

Iran boosts stocks of high grade uranium - FT.com
 Iran almost doubled its stockpile of more highly enriched uranium, which is close to weapons grade, in three months from February, in a development that will intensify international alarm over the nature of its program.

Russia Is Massing Troops On Iran's Northern Border And Waiting For A Western Attack - April 9, 2012
The Russian military anticipates that an attack will occur on Iran by the summer and has developed an action plan to move Russian troops through neighboring Georgia to stage in Armenia, which borders on the Islamic republic, according to informed Russian sources.

DEBKAfile Weekly:

• Russia tags its comments onto Obama’s note to Tehran:

  “It is one of many various signals coming from various sources that the military option (against Iran) is considered as realistic and possible,” he said. “We are receiving signals, both through public and intelligence channels, that this option is now being reviewed in some capitals as more applicable in this situation. We are very worried about this. We do not want the region and the world to fall into new divisions and bitter political arguments.”

• Tehran uses nuclear talks for free-for-all on Afghanistan, Arab revolts
• Israel revives its military option for 2012:

Kept at arm’s length from diplomacy, Israel has gone back to its threat of a preemptive strike on Iran’s nuclear program in the coming months, i.e. before the US presidential elections in November.

• Obama’s diplomatic maze leads to confusion

Isaiah 61:

⁴ They will rebuild the ancient ruins
    and restore the places long devastated;
they will renew the ruined cities
    that have been devastated for generations.
⁵ Strangers will shepherd your flocks;
    foreigners will work your fields and vineyards.
⁶ And you will be called priests of the Lord,
    you will be named ministers of our God.
You will feed on the wealth of nations,
    and in their riches you will boast.

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Swastikas, Pro-PA Graffiti on Ancient Synagogue
An ancient Jewish synagogue near Jericho was defaced with swastikas and pro-PA propaganda.

Silly Persians

Iran: Discovery will collapse Christianity
Iran’s Basij Press is claiming a purported Gospel of Barnabas, discovered in 2000, will prove that Islam is the final and righteous religion, causing the collapse worldwide of Christianity.

The Bible talks about Mohammed and Islam alright, calling it the LBL Beast with its false prophet.

Revelation 16:

¹³ Then I saw three impure spirits that looked like frogs; they came out of the mouth of the dragon, out of the mouth of the beast and out of the mouth of the false prophet. ¹⁴ They are demonic spirits that perform signs, and they go out to the kings of the whole world, to gather them for the battle on the great day of God Almighty.

¹⁵ “Look, I come like a thief! Blessed is the one who stays awake and remains clothed, so as not to go naked and be shamefully exposed.”

¹⁶ Then they gathered the kings together to the place that in Hebrew is called Armageddon.

Iran is in the driver's seat

Iran rejects West's proposal to curb nuclear program
Saeed Jalili, Iran’s top nuclear negotiator, demanded an overhaul to the plan put forward by the world powers after the Baghdad talks began Wednesday. An Iranian diplomat involved in the discussions said the package falls far short of a compromise.

Israel Hayom | The world is pulling a fast one
Iran nuclear deal doesn't rule out Israeli strike, Barak says.

Japan breaks oil embargo against Iran before Baghdad talks end
Instead of taking place under the shadow of tougher sanctions, the oil embargo had begun falling apart and a major disincentive for Iran to continue its drive for a nuclear bomb was fading.

Russia to submit own plan to Baghdad talks. Israel: Powers must do more
Israel’s defense minister Ehud Barak - "Our demands are clear to everyone: The Iranians are master chess players and if they come away from the negotiations without tighter sanctions and with a license to enrich uranium, they will get what they want, a nuclear weapon. At the end of the diplomatic process, it will be up to us to make decisions.”

Iran committed to ‘full annihilation of Israel,’ says top Iranian military commander
Iran is dedicated to annihilating Israel, the Islamic regime’s military chief of staff declared Sunday.

“The Iranian nation is standing for its cause and that is the full annihilation of Israel,” Maj. Gen. Hassan Firouzabadi said in a speech to a defense gathering Sunday in Tehran.

How much condemnation would rain on Israel if it made threats to annihilate Iran?

45 years later, Company A retraces its steps | The Times of Israel
Forty-five years ago, on the third day of the Six Day War, the paratroopers of Company A, 70th Battalion — tired and frightened young men in camouflage — were the first Israeli soldiers in the Old City, breaking through the Lions Gate under fire, seizing the Temple Mount and securing the Western Wall, an event now remembered as perhaps the pivotal moment of Israel’s history.

We serve a risen saviour. Interesting reading:

http://www.allaboutarchaeology.org/dead-sea-scrolls-2.htm

When spreading satanic lies, Christianity becomes the natural enemy

Pray for the Christians of Iran

Iran – Ministry of Intelligence further restricts Farsi-Speaking churches
In recent months, organizers and operational groups of the Ministry of Intelligence ordered the last two churches in Tehran still holding Farsi services, to cancel these services. However, this has not stopped Christians from attending church services and illustrates the failure of all these repressive plans and threats which were designed to deal with spread of Christianity in Iran.

Luke 21:

³³ Heaven and earth will disappear, but my words will never disappear.

Hamas' Haniyeh: No future for Israel in Palestine

We'll see. We'll see.

The US military option for Iran is 'ready,' American ambassador to Israel says
 The United States has completed its planning for a military strike on Iran, the US Ambassador to Israel Daniel Shapiro said in remarks at a closed conference in Tel Aviv that were broadcast on Israel TV on Wednesday night.

We are 'trained and ready' for the mission ahead, says Israel's outgoing air force chief
Israel’s air force is “trained and ready” for the missions that lie ahead, Israel’s outgoing air force chief Ido Nehushtan said, in an apparent reference to a possible Israeli military strike on Iran, in an interview broadcast on Thursday night.

Barak: Talks will allow Tehran to deceive world - Israel News, Ynetnews
Defense Minister Ehud Barak expressed on Wednesday night his concern that negotiations between Iran and the Western powers will result in agreements that will allow Tehran to deceive the world and advance its nuclear program.

This is where we're going: The LBL Islamic Beast is Calling the World to War

Iran to expand 20-pc uranium enrichment at Fordo with new centrifuges
New cascades of centrifuges are being installed at Iran’s Fordo nuclear underground facility raising the total to 3,000 machines.

 Revelation 16:

 ¹⁴ They are demonic spirits who work miracles and go out to all the rulers of the world to gather them for battle against the Lord on that great judgment day of God the Almighty.

¹⁵ “Look, I will come as unexpectedly as a thief! Blessed are all who are watching for me, who keep their clothing ready so they will not have to walk around naked and ashamed.”

¹⁶ And the demonic spirits gathered all the rulers and their armies to a place with the Hebrew name Armageddon.

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Former Spanish prime minister Jose Maria Aznar Wednesday in Jerusalem

Khameini told me Iran will win 'inevitable' conflict with Israel and US, says Spain's ex-PM

 Spain’s former prime minister said Wednesday that Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khameini, told him in 2001 that he considered Israel a “cancer condemned to disappear” and that an “open confrontation” with Israel and the US in which Iran will prevail was inevitable...

Khameini said Iran’s 1979 Islamic revolution sought to rid the world of two evils, the US and Israel, “and to preserve unhurt the virtues of the religious regime of the ayatollahs,” according to Aznar. The existence of Israel and the US seriously threatened to pervert the religious society the Supreme Leader envisioned for Iran, and that is something he could not allow to happen, Aznar continued.

Iran boasts U.S. has abandoned Israel
Iranian outlets have been claiming recently the United States has been forced to bow before Iran on its nuclear program, demonstrating the West’s abandonment of Israel and paving the way for the Islamic regime to annihilate the Jewish state...

“With diminishing support for Israel and with the (upcoming) collapse of the monarchy in Saudi Arabia,” Zarei claims, “there won’t be any obstacles left facing Iran with its policy of annihilation of Israel.”

Rethinking our approach to Iran's bomb development
We badly need to rethink our approach to Iran’s nuclear programs.

Debkafile - More than 60 nuclear experts at work building Iranian nuclear bomb

More on that Gog & Magog thing (aka "the end of the world")

US concerned Israel may attack Iran "at any moment"

The United States is worried that Shaul Mofaz and his Kadima party’s joining a unity government with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu could result in an attack on Iran's nuclear facilities at any given moment, according to a report on Channel 10 News on Thursday.

Where’s the Coverage? Egyptian Presidential Campaign Rally Vows to March on Jerusalem
Our capital shall not be Cairo, Mecca, or Medina. It shall be Jerusalem, Allah willing. Our cry shall be: "Millions of martyrs march toward Jerusalem." Millions of martyrs march toward Jerusalem.

The end of the world is forming before our eyes. Do you have your eyes open?

Joel 3:

3 “At the time of those events,” says the Lord,
    “when I restore the prosperity of Judah and Jerusalem,
² I will gather the armies of the world
    into the valley of Jehoshaphat.
There I will judge them
    for harming my people, my special possession,
for scattering my people among the nations,
    and for dividing up my land.

Netanyahu surprise gives Israel grand coalition | Reuters
 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu formed a unity government on Tuesday in a surprise move that could give him a freer hand to attack Iran's nuclear facilities and seek peace with the Palestinians.

Peace with the Palestinians? That'll be the day. It will only happen at the end of this age.

Winning: Islam And The Non-Existent War With The West
... twenty nations account for over 95 percent of terrorism activity in the world. Of these twenty (Pakistan, Iraq, Afghanistan, South Sudan, Yemen, Iran, Uganda, Libya, Egypt, Nigeria, Palestinian Territories, Democratic Republic of Congo, Central African Republic, Colombia, Algeria, Thailand, Philippines, Russia, Sudan, Iran, Burundi, India, Nigeria, and Israel) all but four of them (Democratic Republic of Congo, Central African Republic, Colombia, and Burundi) involve Islamic terrorism.

More speculation, although I suppose someday, sometime this situation with Iran will come to a head.

TV report: Netanyahu holding elections so he is free to deal with Iran in September-October

Channel 2 commentator says PM is going to polls early so he can handle Iran threat when safely re-elected and with Obama paralyzed in presidential campaign.

Bibi prepares to strike Iran? - Ynetnews
 By early September, the elections will be behind Netanyahu, and as a prime minister he won't have trouble to form a stable coalition and government that would endorse his position on an Iran strike. Meanwhile, US President Barack Obama would still be in the midst of his own election campaign. During this period, until November of this year at least, he would have trouble taking punitive measures against Israel or endorsing such steps at the UN should such proposals be made in the wake of an Israeli strike.

 

http://htwins.net/scale2/

(may take a moment to load, but very interesting)

Psalm 8:

³ When I consider your heavens,
    the work of your fingers,
the moon and the stars,
    which you have set in place,
⁴ what is mankind that you are mindful of them,
    human beings that you care for them?

Six army battalions called up under emergency orders to meet growing threat on Egypt, Syria borders
Knesset approves IDF request to call up a further 16 battalions if needed.
 
Main reason: preparing for the repercussions of an attack on Iran?

One of these (near) days Damascus will be no more (and you didn't hear it from me first)

DEBKAfile, Bombings spread in Syria as Al Qaeda seizes control of rebel factions
The suicide bombings hitting Damascus and Idlib in the last 24 hours were the work of Al Qaeda in Iraq – AQI, whose operatives have been pouring into Syria in the last two weeks

Isaiah 17:

A prophecy against Damascus:

“See, Damascus will no longer be a city
    but will become a heap of ruins.