The Omega Letter Intelligence Digest
 

Vol: 33 Issue: 16 - Wednesday, June 16, 2004

Tidings From Persia . . .
by Jack Kinsella

Iran threatened on Wednesday to resume uranium enrichment if the
International Atomic Energy Agency approves a draft resolution rebuking it
for interfering with and stonewalling UN inspectors.

"I am not saying we will do something particular, but if this resolution
passes, Iran will have no moral commitment to suspend uranium enrichment,"
the allegedly 'moderate' President Mohammad Khatami told reporters after a
cabinet meeting.

Britain, France and Germany drafted a resolution that "deplores" Iran's
poor cooperation with U.N. inspectors, and the IAEA board of governors are
discussing it in Vienna this week.

According to US Ambassador Kenneth Brill, "What we're seeing here is a
full court press of intimidation by the government of Iran and its
delegation here."

Even the European Union is pressuring Tehran.  According to an IAEA
spokesman, "Despite the threats from Iran, the Europeans are standing
firm. This is typical brinkmanship on the part of Iran."

Startling brinksmanship, really,  more on the order of the Stalinist North
Koreans who, unlike Iran, don't have much left to lose by playing nuclear
roulette.

The speaker of the Iranian parliament yesterday warned that members may
not ratify Iran's signature to an additional protocol to the Nuclear
Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) -- something insisted on by the IAEA after
it discovered that Tehran was attempting to develop atomic weapons in
violation of its obligations as a signer of the NPT.

The speaker, Gholam Ali Hadad-Adel, suggested that by pressing Iran to
tell the truth, the Europeans were doing the bidding of evil "Zionists."

Late last month, the head of Iran's powerful Revolutionary Guards warned
that the regime was prepared to launch suicide attacks or missile strikes
against "29 sensitive sites in the U.S. and in the West."

According to a Washington Times editorial, Iran may win the stare-down
contest; "Unfortunately, there is little evidence thus far that either the
United States or the EU 3 will move decisively to stop Iran from obtaining
nuclear weapons. While Britain and France seem to be inching toward a
somewhat tougher approach, they have shown little interest in putting any
kind of a deadline on Tehran.

While Washington has done a commendable job of articulating the problem
that would be posed by nuclear weapons in the hands of rogue governments
like the one in Iran, it has shown little stomach for confronting the
regime anytime this year. While the West delays taking action,
congressional investigators reported yesterday that Beijing is sending
nuclear technology to Iran in exchange for oil."

The Washington Times editorial was refreshingly candid about the true
state of affairs, unlike the New York Times, whose focus continues to be
on the administration's handling of Iraq.

Today's New York Times didn't even mention Iran, whereas the Washington
Times ediorial reads like a countdown to Armageddon. . .

"It is looking more and more like 2005 will be the critical year when the
West will decide whether it is prepared to live with an Iranian atomic
bomb, or take decisive action to prevent one from being developed. We
understand that the United States and Europe are exhausted by Iraq, but we
don't have the luxury of being exhausted.

The truth is that the world will become a much more dangerous place if
Iran -- ruled by a violent, paranoid cabal that routinely employs
terrorism as an instrument of state policy -- is allowed to acquire a
nuclear capacity. That would be intolerable."

Assessment:

Although the threat posed by Iran's nuclear program has even awakened the
sleeping Europeans, Moscow promised on Tuesday to maintain its nuclear
cooperation with Iran.

A representative of Russia's federal nuclear agency said Moscow would
continue building the Bushehr nuclear reactor despite IAEA opposition.

"The criticism of IAEA chief Mohamed ElBaradei in his report on Iran does
not in any way concern the Russian project of constructing the Bushehr
nuclear power station," the Interfax news agency reported.

In a revisionist statement worthy of the old Soviet propaganda machine,
Russia simply rewrote the situation to suit its position.

"[The] IAEA does not now and has never had any concerns with Bushehr.
Therefore there is no basis for worries about Russia possibly ending its
participating in this project," Interfax reported.

While Russia and Iran cozy up, Iran is massing troops along its shared
border with Iraq. The Saudi daily Al-Sharq al-Awsat quoted "reliable Iraqi
sources" as saying, "Iran moved part of its regular military forces
towards the Iraqi border in the southern sector at a time its military
intelligence agents were operating inside Iraqi territory."

This isn't a 'countdown to Aramageddon' in any real sense, but the
situation continues to mirror Ezekiel's description of what he calls the
Gog-Magog War.

In Ezekiel Chapter 36, the prophet describes the restoration of the
ancient nation of Israel on her ancient homeland in the last days.

In the next chapter, Ezekiel describes what will befall the restored
Israeli nation at the hands of an alliance headed by  "Gog, the land of
Magog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal."

Scholars identify Gog as the Russian Federation, with Moscow being
directly north of Jerusalem. Gog, Magog, Meschech and Tubal are the sons
and grandsons of Noah who settled in the Russian steppes.

The Russian Gog heads an alliance including "Persia, [Iran] Ethiopia,  and
Libya [Islamic North Africa]. . . Gomer, [Eastern Europe, eg. Muslim
Yugoslavia, etc.] and 'all his bands'; the house of Togarmah [Turkey] of
the north quarters, and 'all his bands'" (Ezekiel 38:5-6)

Note the alignment of those nations today.  Despite Moscow's war against
Islamic Chechen separatists, Moscow has managed to maintain a cozy
relationship with even the most rabid Islamic states, like that of Iran
[Persia] and even Saddam Hussein.

To the Islamic world, the myth that the 'Zionists' control US policy is
accepted as a matter of religious doctrine. The Soviets quietly cultivated
that myth for decades as part of its Cold War strategy.

The Russians have capitalized on it ever since. Most of the Islamic Middle
East was armed by the Russians and there are Russian weapons 'advisors'
and technical advisors in every Islamic country in the region.

Ezekiel predicts of the Gog Magog Alliance; "in the latter years thou
shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is
gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have
been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they
shall dwell safely all of them. . . And thou shalt say, I will go up to
the land of UNWALLED villages; I will go to them that are at rest, that
dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars
nor gates." (38:10-11)

It is fascinating to note that Israel is building a security 'wall' around
its perimeter, reverting to the most ancient of border defenses -- in an
age of laser beams and deathrays.

Any peace settlement will undoubtedly address that wall, making Israel of
the 21st century a 'land of unwalled villages'.

Ezekiel promises that the godless Russians will meet God in a personal way
when they arrrive on the mountains of Israel's West Bank:

"And thou shalt come up against my people of Israel, as a cloud to cover
the land; it shall be in the latter days, and I will bring thee against my
land, that the heathen may know me, when I shall be sanctified in thee, O
Gog, before their eyes."

That is the outline as given for a single generation, somewhere in time,
as recorded more than two thousand five hundred years ago.

That outline began to take shape with the Cold War, which coincided with
the 1948 Berlin Airlift, the 1948 establishment of the embrionic European
alliance that became the EU, and the establishment of the State of Israel.

Today, a nuclear Russia is the patron of most of the Islamic states of the
Middle East, Iran [Persia] is massing troops along Iraq's borders while
Russia is defying the global community to help build a nuclear Iran.

"And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up
your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh." (Luke 21:28)