Global SITREP A2-18: The Revolution in Persia (Iran)

Update 27 January 2018: The Hojjatieh Shi'a clerics running the Islamic Republic of Iran are under ever increasing pressure from virtually every direction on the compass - which is akin to the prophetic point made in Jeremiah 49:36. Let us take stock of these winds blowing against Iran.

While the protests in Iran appear to have been fully repressed by the regime,  don't think for a moment they are over. They continue simmering just below the surface because the iranian people know that Iran has been caught red-handed in gross human rights abuses during the uprising. They are biding their time now because help is coming from outside the country.

The United Nations is applying pressure in the form of a report which Iran cannot deny in the face of hard facts and military hardware. The UN report proves beyond question that Iran broke UN arms embargo by supplying ballistic missiles to the Houthi rebels in Yemen. This report will likely lead to an increase in sanctions against the regime. Additionally, virtually all countries are in agreement that the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps is a terrorist organization. Sanctions against the IRGC's commercial assets will also economically choke Iran.

In Israel, US Vice President Pence speaking in a special session the Israel Knesset made clear that the disaster of the Iran nuclear agreement will no longer be a can kicked down the road by the Trump Administration - certification of iranian compliance by the US President is at and end, as is the agreement itself. The US and EU will jointly decertify the agreement due to Iran's continuing ballistic missile development which is an undeniable facet of the agreement. VP Pence also certified that Iran will not be allowed to possess nuclear weapons. This is a very strong hint in the direction of probable military action.

The Iranian mullah's regime is not known to make concessions against issues such as these, yet according to the US Navy the IRGC-crewed fast boats that routinely swarm ours and coalition ships in the gulf and through the Strait of Hormuz have suddenly and completely halted any aggressive actions like these have been in recent months and weeks. Shot were fired in these standoffs recently, and now the Ayatollah has blinked. 

But before he blinked, the Ayatollah also saw a determined US and Israeli program to stop and reverse Iranian expansion in Syria. He saw the very real potential for the military isolation of Hezbollah in Lebanon and a united front of Sunni Arabs in a military coalition led by Saudi Arabia and the UAE blocking his expansion in Yemen. Indeed, the Saudi-led coalition has turned the tide against the Houthi's in Yemen and are advancing against all remaining enemy strongholds. Iranian military expansion has been checked and will soon see its fortunes reversed just as Jeremiah prophesied long ago.

IRGC/Qods Force General Qassem Soleimani

2 January 2018: The Iranian armed revolution gathers strength. The hated Basij, the regime's paid street thugs controlled by the IRGC, have been repeatedly attacked and their bases have come under assault by force of arms in cities all over the country. Additionally, Twelver clerics of the Iranian theocracy are also being targeted. 

This is true also for the man seen in the image above. He is one whose name has appeared on the pages of this blog with increasing frequency in the past couple of years: IRGC/QF General Qassem Soleimani. General Soleimani has long been held up by the Ayatollah's regime as one whose foreign aggression and terror are to be idolized. In stark contrast to this the people of Iran have taken every opportunity to tear down and burn in effigy any likeness of the man found in cities all across the Islamic Republic. He is not seen as anything close to a hero of the Islamic Republic, but as a very public personage representing the murderous clerics in Tehran and Qom as their foreign-based executioner of innocents. 

Beyond this, there are a growing number of reports, the very first originating with the Kuwaiti daily Al-Jarida, which speak of a "green light" being given by the United States to Israel's clandestine forces for the assassination of General Qassem Soleimani. The Israeli's wanted to execute such a plan three years ago, but the Obama Administration betrayed that plan to the Iranians as part of the nuclear agreement. Soleimani's hands are covered with the blood of Iraqi, Kurdish, Lebanese and Syrian civilians, but it was IRGC/QF forces under his command which have the blood and the maiming of hundreds of American soldiers who served in Operation Iraqi Freedom with Iranian-made EFPs. 

Soleimani's most egregious assault occurred on 20 January 2007 at a Karbala, Iraq security compound. Soleimani's IRGC/QF disguised as US soldiers, brazenly abducted and then murdered in cold blood five American soldiers. The modus operandi of this attack was near identical to the abduction of IDF soldiers in northern Israel which precipitated the Hezbollah War of 2006. A captured Shi'a militant and Lebanese Hezbollah operative both subsequently confirmed in mid-2007 that the IRGC/QF planned and executed operation, and U.S. intelligence also learned that Iran's senior leadership - all the way up to Ayatollah Khamenei - was aware and approved of the IRGC/QF activities in Iraq. The Iranian Twelver regime has a terrible debt that has come due.

Anti-Regime Armed Revolt in Iran

1 January 2018: There's no other way to describe what is occurring in Iran other than to call it a revolution in the making; a revolution that is now 5-days old. One can get a good sense of what has occurred thus far and going forward by visiting the NCRI website. 

The US and Israel pact to destabilize and the regime and thwart its nuclear and missile delivery systems was agreed upon on December 12, 2017. The first protests began two weeks later, on December 28, 2017. It would seem that the Iranian people were looking for a sign from the West that unlike during the 2009 protests they would not be abandoned by the West this time. The US-Israel accord has apparently assured them that that is the case this time, and not in any manner to interfere with the Iranian people's revolution, but to support them as required.

If you listen to the son of the late Shah of Iran, the now 56-year old Prince Reza Pahlavi who is exiled in Dubai, UAE, many of the youth inside and outside of Iran today detest the Shi'a Twelver Hojjatieh regime. Whereas previously anyone in Iran speaking against the Supreme Leader would face the death penalty, this time shouts of "Death to Khamenei" and "Death to the Regime" are occurring all over the country. 

And according to Reza Pahlavi today's youth in Iran look to the past, and possess a very high regard for historical figures of Iran's past. Most prominent among them is King Cyrus the Great. Demonstrations in Iran at the tomb of Cyrus the Great make such claims resonate with their veracity. Iran's youth do not long for a new king, but for beneficent national government that respects the rights of the people and a representative parliamentary democracy to guarantee those rights.

Readers of Eschatology Today are well aware of the Jeremiah 49:34-39 prophecy which specifically concerns Iran. It occurs to me we should be equally aware of the prophecies of Isaiah that were given him a century and a half before Cyrus the Great was born. Isaiah 41:2; 41:25; 44:28 and, most importantly, Isaiah 45:1-4 where God calls the king by name. And then there's the link between Cyrus the Great and Daniel in Daniel 10 and his vision, and the interpretation of which is continued in Daniel 11 continuing to our present day and into the future of the 70th Week. A well-rounded Biblical perspective indeed.

Often the question has appeared of why Iran is not directly mentioned in the prophecies concerning Syria, Lebanon and Psalm 83/Isaiah 11 or Ezekiel 28. Could it be that Iran is omitted from mention because it has no role due to an ongoing preoccupation with revolution on its own soil? We'll soon find out because for this revolution in Iran to occur at this point in history is not accidental occurrence; God is in complete and total control. His will being done.