• NEWS FLASH: British marines "confess" to illegally entering Iranian waters (note my sarcasm)
• DEBKAfile reports: High alert at US and UK bases after Iran’s seizure of 15 British seamen Friday - more reprisals coming?

• UN Security Council set to OK Iran Sanctions: Major powers expect unanimous approval Saturday.

• Ahmadinejad Angrily Abandons Plans for UN Visit
  

It will be interesting to see where things go from here. Ahmadinejad has promised to retaliate against any further UNSC sanctions; is the kidnapping of 15 British marines just the beginning? Does Ahmadinejad believe another UN speech would have been futile, and most importantly, does he see the need to escalate the crisis to the next level?

What worries me is that Ahmadinejad is a firm believer in the return of the 12th Imam Mahdi during catastrophic world conditions, and that he saw himself in a "divine aura of light" during his last UN speech. Anyone who thinks he is "divinely ordained" and at the same time speaks about destroying the remnant of Israel, is extremely dangerous and must be stopped. Of course, as a Christian, I believe God is in control and we are in a time described in Psalm 83:

1 O God, do not keep silent; be not quiet, O God, be not still.

2 See how your enemies are astir,
how your foes rear their heads.

3 With cunning they conspire against your people (i.e. Israel);
they plot against those you cherish.

4 "Come," they say, "let us destroy them as a nation,
that the name of Israel be remembered no more."

5 With one mind they plot together;
they form an alliance against you-

6 the tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites,
of Moab and the Hagrites,

7 Gebal, Ammon and Amalek,
Philistia, with the people of Tyre.

8 Even Assyria has joined them to lend strength to the descendants of Lot...

The Ishmaelites etc. have surrounded Israel and are calling for her destruction, but God already wrote the ending of this upcoming war:

1 This is the word of the LORD concerning Israel. The LORD, who stretches out the heavens, who lays the foundation of the earth, and who forms the spirit of man within him, declares: 2 "I am going to make Jerusalem a cup that sends all the surrounding peoples reeling. Judah will be besieged as well as Jerusalem. 3 On that day, when all the nations of the earth are gathered against her, I will make Jerusalem an immovable rock for all the nations. All who try to move it will injure themselves. 4 On that day I will strike every horse with panic and its rider with madness," declares the LORD. "I will keep a watchful eye over the house of Judah, but I will blind all the horses of the nations. [Zechariah 12]

May the good Lord give you peace and rest this Sabbath day.