Global SITREP A9-25: The Terminal Phase of the War Against the Islamic Republic of Iran, Part II

 

Initial explosion at Shahid Rajaee, Iran port storage

UPDATED: 28 April 2025: This SITREP is likely, if not hopefully, just in time to chronicle several major events in the Middle East, South Asia, East Asia and Europe where active wars and rumors thereof are a persistent threat to evade all attempts to avoid escalation.

First of all, and with respect to statements by various ministers in Israel's government regarding the necessity for victory in Gaza to secure peace for Israel's future, all prophetic Scripture, Psalm 83, Isaiah 11 and Ezekiel 28 and 38/39 in particular, make it clear that Israel will not know peace and security until all enemies on its current borders have been vanquished in battle. And that peace and security will be short lived as it presages the brief yet end of the current age war of Gog of Magog.

President Trump is saying exactly what the "fake news" wants to hear. Very upbeat about saying a "deal" with the Twelver Regime in Iran will happen POTUS is at his Trumpian best these days. Trump knows, for example, that there is no way the mullahs will accept the deal being demanded of them for sanctions relief. It is almost to a "T" the same deal that Muammar Khaddafi accepted in 2003 for Libya to dismantle and eliminate its nuclear weapons program that had begun in 1970. In surrendering his potential nukes to the US and UK the case can be made that Khaddafi sealed his fate and murder in the 2011 revolution. It happened in Iraq to Saddam, and later to al-Assad in Syria, albeit with Israeli Air Force kinetic persuasion. This is exactly what the Iranian Twelver hardliners and the North Korean's are advising Khamenei: give up Iranian nukes and you and the regime are toast, history proves it!  As if on cue the new U.S. Ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, stated in a Jerusalem address that if Iran does not give up its nuclear weapons program President Trump "will not be dragged into a war, he will lead it." And that's what is most likely to happen real soon, Iran will balk at the last moment, and the bunker busters will fall.

Peripheral vision is also keeping tabs on the Russia-Ukraine conflict, Communist China's bullying of the Philippines and other nations bordering the South China Sea, as well as increasing instabilities within the European Union. There's a fast-approaching crunch time with all of these, not to mention the escalating tension between nuclear-armed India and Islamic Pakistan.

2 May 2025: The enemies of God and of the people of Israel have resorted to burning with fire that which has never belonged, does not belong and will never belong to them. These are acts of asymmetric warfare which 3,000 years ago the singing prophet Asaph pleaded with the God of Israel to intervene with his Spirit-inspired Psalm 83.

The total of eighteen fixed and rotary-wing water and retardant-dropping aircraft were actively fighting the fires yesterday. The initial batch of these aircraft deployed from NATO countries as well as from Ukraine. The main effort was in the Jerusalem Hills where the primary objective of firefighters was to re-open the Tel Aviv to Jerusalem highway. The highway was successfully opened to traffic yesterday. Miraculously only twenty-two civilian injuries were due to smoke inhalation and twenty firefighters have suffered mild injuries thus far.  Approximately 20 terror arsonists have been arrested by Israeli authorities in the past two days, with at least one individual caught in the act. The latest news is that intensive efforts have at least contained the several fires as of Friday morning.

Asaph concluded Psalm 83:13-18 with these words 

O my God, make them like the whirling dust,
Like the chaff before the wind!
14 As the fire burns the woods,
And as the flame sets the mountains on fire,
15 So pursue them with Your tempest,
And frighten them with Your storm.
16 Fill their faces with shame,
That they may seek Your name, O Lord.
17 Let them be confounded and dismayed forever;
Yes, let them be put to shame and perish,
18 That they may know that You, whose name alone is the Lord,
Are the Most High over all the earth.

Massive Earth-facing Coronal Holes cover our Sun 3-4 May 2025.

UPDATE 5 May 2025: There are several items to address in this update. It may take a day or two to get to each of them.

The least important of them is that the 60-day ultimatum given to Iran by the U.S. concerning its nuclear weapons program is all but expired as of this week. We note that that ultimatum was not issued by the Sovereign LORD God; His appointment as given by the prophet Jeremiah remains active on His calendar as it always has. Nevertheless, there are strong I&W that great force by human agencies are about to be unleashed against the regime in Tehran and their proxies.

One has to wonder how the Islamist's mindset is able to come to terms with the fact that the non-divinity of their devotion is yet again 100% absent as it was 77 years ago? Are they not confounded, dismayed and rolling in abject shame? 

Israel's Military Conquest of Gaza

The fact is, especially for the Islamists in Gaza, that much worse is coming upon their raised heads as an additional tens of thousands of Israel's mighty army are about to swarm over and under Gaza destroying everything in their path. HAMAS, PIJ and all of their ilk stand to become extinct within a very brief period of time as we measure it. May they quickly realize that the God of Israel is the One and Only LORD of all His Creation. Amen. 

The schedule looks something like this - SECDEF Hegseth will arrive in the MidEast in 7 days (12 May). On 13 May through 16 May President Trump will be visiting Saudi, Qatar and the UAE. From now until President Trump's departure from the MidEast is a so-called "Window of Opportunity" for the terrorists to release all hostages, living and deceased. 

Failure to release the hostages will result in the IDF immediately executing "Operation Gideon's Chariot" which is the full and complete military conquest of Gaza. There will be no IDF withdrawal from conquered territory, all territory will be secured above and below ground and annexed as Israel's "security zone."

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