Friends, on Jan. 25, 2016 I rec'd
Friends, I rec’d the following comments from a former Navy Seal friend; I withheld his name for security reasons.
Friends, I rec’d the following comments from a former Navy Seal friend; I withheld his name for security reasons.
XXXXXXXX “Former Navy Seal on the Iran situation.”
“I rarely pull out my dusty old trident, but in this
case, here goes. I was a Navy SEAL officer in the 1980s, and this kind of
operation (transiting small boats in foreign waters) was our bread and butter.
Today, these boats both not only had radar, but multiple GPS devices, including
chart plotters that place your boat's icon right on the chart. The claim by
Iran that the USN boats "strayed into Iranian waters" is complete
bull$#it.
For an open-water transit between nations, the course is
studied and planned in advance by the leaders of the Riverine Squadron, with
specific attention given to staying wide and clear of any hostile nation's
claimed territorial waters. The boats are given a complete mechanical check
before departure, and they have sufficient fuel to accomplish their mission
plus extra. If, for some unexplainable and rare circumstance one boat broke
down, the other would tow it, that's why two boats go on these trips and not
one! It's called "self-rescue" and it's SOP.
This entire situation is in my area of expertise. I can
state with complete confidence that both Iran and our own State Department are
lying. The boats did not enter Iranian waters. They were overtaken in
international waters by Iranian patrol boats that were so superior in both speed
and firepower that it became a "hands up!" situation, with automatic
cannons in the 40mm to 76mm range pointed at them point-blank. Surrender, hands
up, or be blown out of the water. I assume that the Iranians had an English
speaker on a loudspeaker to make the demand. This takedown was no accident or
coincidence, it was a planned slap across America's face.
Just watch. The released sailors will be ordered not to
say a word about the incident, and the Iranians will have taken every GPS
device, chart-plotter etc. off the boats, so that we will not be able to prove
where our boats were taken.
The "strayed into Iranian waters" story being
put out by Iran and our groveling and appeasing State Dept. is utter and
complete BS from one end to the other."
Friends, above see the Psalm 83 "Battle Map"; there are three
candidates for the next prophetic event that I’ve not been able to prioritize
and I believe all of them have to precede the Battle of Ezekiel
38. In
no particular order, they are the Rapture of the Church, the destruction of
Damascus (Isaiah 17), and the battle in which
Israel will neutralize its next door neighbors (Psalm
83).
Despite all the
anxiety over Iran’s nuclear ambitions, I don’t believe the Battle ofEzekiel 38 can take place yet. In the
first place, if Israel goes after Iran’s nukes it will be the opposite of Ezekiel
38, because it would require Israel to mount a sneak attack
against Iran instead of the other way around. In addition, the US has to be
taken out of Israel’s defense equation, Israel has to be persuaded that they
and their neighbors are at peace with one another, and God has to be finished
with the Church as well. None of these is the case as of today.
A day after many sanctions
on Iran were lifted under the international nuclear pact’s implementation, the
US Treasury Sunday imposed new sanctions — over Iran's ballistic weapons.
Eleven companies and individuals were targeted for procuring items of Iran’s
missile program. The White House noted, “US statutory sanctions focused on
Iran's support for terrorism, human rights abuses, and missile activities will
remain in effect and continue to be enforced." After the partial lifting
of sanctions Saturday, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said that Iran would
not renew full diplomatic relations with the United States.
My Baghdad sources
reported Sunday night that the three unidentified American military men and their Iraqi
interpreter, who were kidnapped in the Iraqi capital, are in the hands of a
pro-Iranian Shiite militia, after being abducted in the Shiite Dora district of
southern Baghdad, on the bottom of the map above, which is ruled by that militia. It would represent a serious
turn of events for US-Iranian relations, just a day after the lifting of
sanctions and the release of three American prisoners by Iran.
The US State Department
said it knew that the three Americans had been kidnapped and was working with
the Iraqi government to recover them. A large group of American military
personnel are positioned in Baghdad to advise the Iraqi army on tactics against
ISIS.
The UN nuclear watchdog
confirmed Saturday night, Jan. 16, that Iran had fulfilled its side of the
nuclear deal with the six world powers and that sanctions could be lifted,
after US Secretary of State John Kerry, EU’s Federica Mogherini and Iran’s
Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif had been kept hanging about for the
IAEA’s from early morning for a verdict worth some $100-150 billion to
Tehran. The wording did not explicitly confirm that Iran had met all the
terms of the nuclear deal or that it had mothballed most of its uranium-enrichment
centrifuges.
From the start, the deal
was viewed with deep suspicion by Israel, Saudi Arabia and US lawmakers. Even
the White House spokesman Josh Earnest was moved to comment Friday that “the
United States wants to make sure than Iran doesn’t cut any corners.”
Iran had managed to dodge compliance with key terms
of the nuclear deal. Nine tons of enriched uranium were indeed shipped to
Russia, but most expert watchers are dubious about three other commitments:
1. Washington and Tehran have claimed that the Iranians fulfilled their commitment to pour concrete into the core of the Arak reactor to disable its capacity for producing plutonium. Two days ago, on Thursday, Iranian officials denied this had been done: Only a token operation may have taken place, if any.
Officials associated with Iran’s radical Revolutionary Guards, which fought tooth and nail against the nuclear accord, commented that instead of pouring concrete into the Arak reactor, it should be poured into the hearts of President Hassan Rouhani and Foreign Minister Zarif, for negotiating the accord with the six powers.
1. Washington and Tehran have claimed that the Iranians fulfilled their commitment to pour concrete into the core of the Arak reactor to disable its capacity for producing plutonium. Two days ago, on Thursday, Iranian officials denied this had been done: Only a token operation may have taken place, if any.
Officials associated with Iran’s radical Revolutionary Guards, which fought tooth and nail against the nuclear accord, commented that instead of pouring concrete into the Arak reactor, it should be poured into the hearts of President Hassan Rouhani and Foreign Minister Zarif, for negotiating the accord with the six powers.
Such comments rarely reach
the Western media. They are important because they mirror the fierce power
struggle ongoing in Tehran, which is heavily fueled by infighting over the
nuclear deal and sanctions.
2. That deal
provided for the number of centrifuges enriching uranium at the Natanz center
to be reduced from 19,500 to 5,050. Our sources report that 9,000 are still in
operation.
3. There is no confirmation that the number of centrifuges operating at the underground facility of Fordo was cut down to one thousand, as agreed.
On top of these deviations, the Obama administration admitted last week that the dispute over Iran’s nuclear-capable ballistic missiles, which were tested last month, is still open, in defiance of UN Security Council resolutions. This makes Tehran liable to a fresh set of sanctions, as US officials too have indicated.
3. There is no confirmation that the number of centrifuges operating at the underground facility of Fordo was cut down to one thousand, as agreed.
On top of these deviations, the Obama administration admitted last week that the dispute over Iran’s nuclear-capable ballistic missiles, which were tested last month, is still open, in defiance of UN Security Council resolutions. This makes Tehran liable to a fresh set of sanctions, as US officials too have indicated.
The capture of two US
patrol boats by the Revolutionary Guards speedboats last Tuesday, with the 10
American sailors aboard forced to surrender before they were released, was
clearly a last-ditch attempt by Iran’s radicals to derail the nuclear accord
before the Saturday deadline was reached.
That will not be the last
such episode: Iran’s radicals may embark on more such actions to counteract the
nuclear deal by striking more American targets and looking for trouble with
Saudi Arabia and its Gulf allies.
The fact is that the
hard-line factions in Tehran don’t want the sanctions lifted, because they see
them as net profit for President Rouhani and his moderate conservatives and his
leading backer, former president Hashem Rafsanjani, head of the powerful
Assembly of Experts.
Iran's Finance Minister Ali Tayyebnia gave the radicals fodder when he said last week that even $100 billion in cancelled sanctions would not haul the Iranian economy out of crisis or balance the state budget, because the country’s indebtedness is far in excess of that huge amount.
Iran's Finance Minister Ali Tayyebnia gave the radicals fodder when he said last week that even $100 billion in cancelled sanctions would not haul the Iranian economy out of crisis or balance the state budget, because the country’s indebtedness is far in excess of that huge amount.
The Iranian-Saudi row is
another factor that could upset the nuclear deal, although paradoxically, since
oil prices sank below $30, the Guards and Riyadh have a common interest in its
collapse.
Iran's expected return to
an already glutted market - through the removal of sanctions - will drive
prices down further. This, neither the Revolutionary Guards Corps, which
control Iran’s oil sector, nor the Saudis want to see.
Therefore, the rosy prospect the Obama administration paints of a successful
landmark deal for curbing Iran’s nuclear capabilities is a far cry from being
realized.
The UN Security Council has removed Iran’s Bank Sepah and its international subsidiary from its sanctions blacklist. The move came only a day after Iran and the P5+1 group of countries implemented their historic nuclear agreement. Bank Sepah, which is Iran’s oldest bank, was under the UN sanctions since 2007 over its alleged role in supporting firms linked to the development of Iran’s missile technology. The UN Security Council imposed four sets of sanctions on Iran from 2006 to 2010, all of which were scrapped under Iran’s nuclear agreement. Watch the video below.
Three American contractors have been reported missing in a southern neighborhood in Baghdad.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xsSLgfFzRE
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