DEBKAfile Exclusive: Frontrunner as next Revolutionary Guards chief threatens US world interests and Israel if Iran is attacked
"Mohammad Baqer Solghadr, deputy interior minister, has been tagged for this top post by Iranian leaders engrossed in war preparations, according to DEBKAfile’s Iranian sources. He told the official Iranian news agency IRNA Thursday: “Nowhere would be safe for America with (Iran’s) long-range missiles… we can fire tens of thousands of missiles every day.” He added: “With long-range missiles Iran can also threaten Israel as America’s ally” and US Middle East bases. DEBKAfile’s military sources report that Solghadr was not overstating Iran’s missile capabilities..."


Hillary C: "US might have to confront Iran militarily"
"Democratic presidential candidate and New York Senator Hillary Clinton said Tuesday that it might be necessary for America to confront Iran militarily, addressing that possibility more directly than any of the other presidential candidates who spoke this week to the National Jewish Democratic Council..."

Ya, I'd say the U.S. and Israel are headed for a major war with Iran (plus we may have to throw Iran's major trading partners (and defenders on the UN Security Council) - Russia and China - into the mix too). Iran is the "bear" in the "lion-bear-leopard" combined beast of Revelation 13, and a separate beast in Daniel 7. The lion is Babylon/Iraq (and we all know what a mess that place is in - see Isaiah 13); next up is Iran the Medo-Persian bear.

You might have guessed that I understand the book of Revelations to be mostly historic. I also therefore believe that the "LBL Islamic beast" is calling the world to the 6th bowl:

Revelation 16 (my comments in parenthesis):
12The sixth angel poured out his bowl on the great river Euphrates (goes right through the middle of Iraq), and its water was dried up to prepare the way for the kings from the East (probably China). 13Then I saw three evil^[a] spirits that looked like frogs; they came out of the mouth of the dragon (Satan), out of the mouth of the beast (refers to the Revelations 13, LBL Islamic beast) and out of the mouth of the false prophet (what false prophet has 1.3 billion, ~ 25% of the world's population, convinced that Allah is God?). 14They are spirits of demons performing miraculous 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"Behold, I come like a thief! Blessed is he who stays awake and keeps his clothes with him, so that he may not go naked and be shamefully exposed." (Praise the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob/Israel - Jesus the only messiah is coming for his children!!!)

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

I pray for all Muslims; I pray for all Catholics; I pray for all tepid Laodiceans in today's evangelical Christian church (Rev 3) - may they all come unreservedly to Jesus Christ while there is still time. amen.