(Mat 24:6-8) And you shall hear of wars and rumours of wars. See that ye be not troubled. For these things must come to pass: but the end is not yet. For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: And there shall be pestilences and famines and earthquakes in places. Now all these are the beginnings of sorrows.

JOHN MCCAIN: WAR BETTER THAN NUCLEAR IRAN

John McCain called Iran's nuclear ambitions "destabilizing" and "unacceptable," warning that military options are on the table.

"There's only one thing worse than the United States exercising the military option, and that is Iran having nuclear weapons," McCain (R-Ariz.) said on "Fox News Sunday."

McCain called for the United States first to use diplomacy, saying, "This is the most serious crisis we have faced, outside of the entire war on terror, since the end of the Cold War."

Iran has defied the United States by working to resume uranium enrichment, which Iran says it wants for electrical power but which can be used to make nuclear weapons.

McCain endorsed the administration's desire to take Iran to the United Nation's Security Council for possible sanctions if it doesn't cease its nuclear program.

MORE: Iran: Our Military Options

EXCERPT STRATFOR ANALYSIS- One geopolitical constant must be taken seriously: Israel will not permit Iran to deploy nuclear weapons.

Iran knows this. It has three possible strategies. First, hope that Israeli or American intelligence misses the development of weapons until after they are deployed, giving Iran a deterrent. Second, hope for an Israeli attack in order to position themselves in the Islamic world as the real leader and victim of the anti-Zionist struggle. Third, carefully approach the line of deployability without crossing it.

We suspect that the third option is the Iranian strategy. The problem with the strategy is it assumes that the United States and Israel are both seeing the same thing as the Iranians, which assumes that they have not only excellent intelligence but trust its excellence. The United States will have trouble with that assumption, while the Israelis have so much at stake that they will have a much lower trigger point. In short, the possibilities of miscalculation in the Iranian situation are substantial. The unintended rather than the intended consequence is the most dangerous.

HOOFBEATS OF THE RED HORSEMAN

U.S., Israel to attack Iran nukes 'before April'
Iran Warns Israel About Attack
Bush: 'We will protect Israel'
Report: Israel has identified 60 targets in Iran

HEADLINES: Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Iran’s president sees “final war” between Muslims, West
Iran to question authenticity of Holocaust
Iran's leader challenges Europe to take back Jews in Israel
Iran president meets anti-Israel militants in Syria

Iranian defense minister Mostafa Mohammad Najjar: "Israel does not have the courage to attack Iran, and if it commits such a big mistake, the defenders of Islamic Iran will put Israel in an eternal coma like Sharon."

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