While Iran is preparing the Islamic regime for upcoming events associated with the coming of the 12th Imam Mahdi, which they believe is already here on the earth and will announce publicly his presence after the needed environment is created, Israel is preparing to protect itself.
Will Israel Attack Iran?
“This is not about some abstract concept,” Barak said as he gazed out at the lights of Tel Aviv, “but a genuine concern. The Iranians are, after all, a nation whose leaders have set themselves a strategic goal of wiping Israel off the map… Barak underscored that if Israel or the rest of the world waits too long, the moment will arrive — sometime in the coming year, he says — beyond which it will no longer be possible to act”….Ehud Barak, Israeli Defense Minister
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Iran preparing now for Armageddon
Select fighters being described as ‘Soldiers of Imam Mahdi’
WND EXCLUSIVE By Reza Kahlili
Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has held several secret meetings with his economic and military advisers in recent days to prepare for the possibility of war with the United States.
Sources report the preparations are to include the execution of those Iranians who oppose the regime.
Khamenei has been heard to say that the coming of the last Islamic Messiah, the Shiites’ 12th Imam Mahdi, is near and that specific actions need to be taken to protect the Islamic regime for upcoming events.
Mahdi, according to Shiite belief, will reappear at the time of Armageddon.
Selected forces within the Revolutionary Guards and Basij reportedly have been trained under a task force called “Soldiers of Imam Mahdi” and they will bear the responsibility of security and protecting the regime against uprisings. Many in the Guards and Basij have been told that the 12th Imam is on earth, facilitated the victory of Hezbollah over Israel in the 2006 war and soon will announce publicly his presence after the needed environment is created.
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Iran now working to undermine Hamas?
Terror duo having religious, tactical disputes
by Aaron Klein Email | January 23, 2012 | WND.com
TEL AVIV – Iran has been working around the leadership of Hamas to form independent Hamas militias capable of carrying out coordinated attacks against Israel, according to sources in Hamas.
Israeli security officials confirmed that information, saying Iranian Revolutionary Guard members inside Gaza have been assembling a team of Hamas and Islamic Jihad gunmen working outside the official Hamas infrastructure.
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Iran oil sanctions spark war of words between Tehran and Washington
Posted on January 23, 2012 by Cowboy Byte
Tehran on Monday escalated its threats against the west after Europe struck at the Islamic republic’s lifeblood by agreeing to impose an oil embargo on it.
Tehran threatened to respond by closing the strait of Hormuz, through which a fifth of global oil supplies pass, while a senior US official vowed that the west could use force to keep the route open.
The decision by EU foreign ministers in Brussels raised the stakes dramatically in the standoff between Iran and the west over Iran’s nuclear program.
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Iran: EU Oil Ban Could Lead to Iranian Reprisals
January 24, 2012
The European Union’s decision yesterday to begin a phased ban on the import of Iranian oil is part of a dramatic increase in international pressure that will force Tehran to scramble to address the resulting damage to its economy and will raise regional tensions as well as the possibility of Iranian reprisals.
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Gulf Monitors Leave Syria, League Seeks UN Support
January 25, 2012| Security | Middle East and North Africa
By Mariam Karouny
DAMASCUS, Jan 25 (Reuters) – Gulf Arab monitors headed out of Syria on Wednesday after their governments said they were “certain the bloodshed and killing of innocents would continue”, and the Arab League pursued U.N. support for a plan to end President Bashar al-Assad’s rule.
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Russia to Keep Blocking UN Sanctions on Syria
January 25, 2012 | Security | Middle East and North Africa
MOSCOW (AP) — Russia will stonewall any U.N. sanctions on Syria and will push for a quick start of talks between the Syrian government and the country’s opposition, the Russian foreign minister said Wednesday.
Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Moscow would block any attempts to get the U.N. approval for sanctions against Syria that have been imposed by other nations, saying that such a move would be “unfair and counterproductive.”
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