MidnightWatcher – Prophecy in Motion

If a history of deceit and obfuscation wasn’t enough for Western “leaders” to learn that the Islamic Republic could never be trusted, then the words of “moderate” President Rouhani today should serve as a sobering reminder. Sadly, they will not. The only lesson the West seems to have learned is the art of selective hearing. What complicates matters even further, however, is the fact that with a nation like Iran the problem is not just with what they say, but also with what they do not say. While President Rouhani claims on one hand that Iran does not “want” nuclear weapons, he conceals the other by omitting the very fact that Iran NEEDS them in order to fulfill their own stated Islamic goals: To annihilate Israel for peaceful purposes and to prepare the way for the Islamic “Messiah” that will bring the world under Islamic rule. According to Rouhani, the accusations that Iran is attempting to build a nuclear bomb is “one of those funny jokes of history.” And he’s right. Unfortuately, the joke’s on you, America. And Israel is the punch line …

Proverbs 14:8, “The prudent understand where they are going, but fools deceive themselves.”

By Jason Rezaian, The Washington Post – “Iran’s top officials on Sunday welcomed the initial agreement struck with world powers over its nuclear activities, hailing the deal as the beginning of a new era for the Islamic republic, both in its relations with other countries and for its sanctions-ravaged economy.

‘Trust is, of course, a two-way street, and we must also find this trust in others. The first step in creating that trust has been taken,’ Iran’s new president, the moderate cleric Hassan Rouhani, said in a statement broadcast live on television Sunday morning.

Addressing concerns over the language in the agreement between the six world powers and Iran regarding Tehran’s ability to continue work on its nuclear program, Rouhani said, ‘Let anyone make his own reading, but this right is clearly stated in the text of the agreement that Iran can continue its enrichment, and I announce to our people that our enrichment activities will continue as before.’

Rouhani, who was joined on the broadcast by the families of several Iranian nuclear scientists who were assassinated in recent years, also reiterated what Iran claims is the peaceful nature of its nuclear program.

‘Let me say once more, the Iranian nation does not want nuclear weapons,’ Rouhani said, referring to the accusations that Iran is attempting to build a bomb as ‘one of those funny jokes of history.’

A key point for Tehran throughout the negotiations with the group of world powers has been a clear path to reductions in the sanctions that have wrought havoc on Iran’s economy in recent years.

One of the achievements of Sunday’s agreement, according to Rouhani, is that ‘the sanctions will be broken. The cracks in the sanctions began last night, and in the future those gaps will be grow.’

Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who has long doubted the sincerity of Western leaders, expressed guarded approval of the agreement.

Responding to a letter from Rouhani, Khamenei thanked the efforts of Iran’s negotiating team, led by foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, but asked the members to continue their vigilance in dealing with old enemies.

‘God willing, standing against the arrogant powers is and will be the main criteria on the path forward for those in charge of this issue,’ Khamenei wrote.” Read more.

Flashback: Ayatollah Khomeini: Iran Needs Nuclear Weapons To Prepare For The Arrival Of The Islamic Messiah And Bring The World Under Islamic Rule – “A just unveiled 2009 internal International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) document summarizes a conversation with then Iran’s president, Ayatollah Khamenei. The ayatollah explained ‘During a [1984] meeting …the spiritual leader Iman Khomeini had decided to reactivate the nuclear program.’ … President Khamenei explained ‘This [possessing nuclear weapons] was the only way to secure the very essence of the Islamic revolution from the schemes of its enemies … and to prepare it for the emergence of Imam Mehdi [messiah],’ who would bring the world under Islamic rule.” Read more.

Flashback: Iran: World Forces Must Strive To Annihilate Israel To ‘Solve All The World’s Problems’ – “Speaking to ambassadors from Islamic countries ahead of ‘Qods Day’ (‘Jerusalem Day’), an annual Iranian anti-Zionist event established in 1979 by Ayatollah Khomeini and which falls this year on August 17, Ahmadinejad said that a ‘horrible Zionist current’ had been managing world affairs for ‘about 400 years.’ Repeating traditional anti-Semitic slurs, the Iranian president accused ‘Zionists’ of controlling the world’s media and financial systems. It was Zionists, he said, who were ‘behind the scene of the world’s main powers, media, monetary and banking centers.’ … Ahmadinejad added that ‘liberating Palestine’ would solve all the world’s problems …” Read more.

Flashback: Iran: Spiritual Leaders Declare Use Of Nuclear Weapons As LAWFUL Under Sharia – “‘The spiritual leaders of the ultra-conservatives [in Iran] have accepted the use of nuclear weapons as lawful in the eyes of shari’a. Mohsen Gharavian, a disciple of [Ayatollah] Mesbah Yazdi [who is Iranian President Ahmadinejad’s spiritual mentor] … stated that ‘in terms of shari’a, it all depends on the goal.’… he said for the first time that the use of nuclear weapons may not constitute a problem according to shari’a. He further said that ‘when the entire world is armed with nuclear weapons, it is permissible to use these weapons as a counter-[measure]. According to shari’a, too, only the goal is important…’” Read more.

But worry not. They’ll only be enriching uranium for peaceful purposes. Like eradicating cancerous, infectious tumors, for instance. “Mene mene.” When King Belshazzar saw the writing on the wall the fate of his kingdom was already sealed. But unlike King Belshazzar who sought to understand its meaning, the writing on the wall that we see today is willingly ignored by an illiterate West …

Update Israel: This is not a historic moment. This is a historic mistake …

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Daniel 8:23-25a, “And in the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors are come to the full, a king of fierce countenance, and understanding dark sentences, shall stand up. And his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power: and he shall destroy wonderfully, and shall prosper, and practise, and shall destroy the mighty and the holy people. And through his policy also he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and by peace shall destroy many …”

By Anne Gearan and Joby Warrick, The Washington Post – “Iran and six major powers agreed early Sunday on an historic deal that freezes key parts of Iran’s nuclear program in exchange for temporary relief on some economic sanctions, diplomats confirmed.

The deal was reached after four days of marathon bargaining and an 11th-hour intervention by U.S. Secretary of State John F. Kerry and other foreign ministers from Europe, Russia and China. the sources said.

The agreement, sealed at 3 a.m. signing ceremony in Geneva’s Palace of Nations, requires Iran to halt or scale back parts of it nuclear infrastructure, the first such pause in more than a decade.

‘We have reached an agreement,’ Michael Mann, spokesman for European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton said in a Twitter posting.

‘We have reached an agreement,’ echoed Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif in a separate posting.

Negotiations had run into the late evening, with the foreign ministers of Britain, France, Germany, China, Russia the European Union and the United States huddled in a hotel conference room. Several of the diplomats met earlier in the day with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, who told reporters that the parties remained divided on key details of the six-month trial deal.

The talks had remained snarled despite the last-minute intervention of Kerry, who flew to Geneva for the second time in two weeks to try to break the impasse. The Obama administration has been seeking to quickly finalize an agreement in the face of threats by Congress to impose additional economic sanctions on Iran.

The marathon discussions with Iran were described by Western diplomats as ‘very difficult’ and ‘intense,’ and several officials had sought to lower expectations that a resolution could be reached before Sunday, when Kerry and the other foreign ministers were due to depart.

Kerry, Zarif and the lead E.U. negotiator, Catherine Ashton, met late Saturday, but the session ended with no announcement of progress. Instead, Iran’s deputy foreign minister hardened his country’s position.

Although ’98 percent’ of the deal was done, Iran said it could not accept any agreement that does not recognize what it calls its uranium enrichment rights, Abbas Araghchi told reporters.

‘Any agreement without recognizing Iran’s right to enrich, practically and verbally, will be unacceptable for Tehran,’ Araghchi said, according to Reuters.

Araghchi and Zarif have insisted that the deal hinges on international recognition of Iran’s right to enrich uranium, a matter of deep national pride.

The proposed deal offered to Iran would reportedly allow limited uranium enrichment, although under tight restrictions and heavy international monitoring. But Western officials have balked at recognizing a legal ‘right’ to uranium enrichment, hoping instead to craft language in the final agreement that acknowledges the right of all countries to pursue nuclear energy for peaceful purposes. Zarif appeared to endorse that approach …” Read more.

And does this “deal” even bother to include language explicity restricting any nuclear material or weapons whatsoever from outside Iran? The Islamic Republic may agree on a deal that “freezes key parts” of its nuclear program temporarily, but this could very easily be “outsourced” via their expanded “ties” with North Korea …

Hadith, Al Bukhari 4.268, “Allah’s Prophet [Mohammed] said, ‘War is deceit.’”

Israeli Minister: Bad Deal With Iran Will ‘Lead To War’ – “Economy Minister Naftali Bennett (Jewish Home/Bayit Yehudi) warned Monday that a bad nuclear deal between Iran and world powers ‘will lead to war.’ ‘There’s no one who wants a war less than us,’ Bennett emphasized in an interview with CNN. ‘However, it’s one of those cases where a bad deal will lead to a war, and a good deal with actually prevent war.’ A good deal, Bennett told Christiane Amanpour, would be one that ‘dismantles the nuclear weapon production machine.’ He warned of a so-called breakout capability, in which Iran would not actually build a nuclear weapon, but rather the ability to produce one, at the flick of a switch, at any given time.” Read more.

Flashback: New Pro-Nuclear Iranian President Bragged About Deceiving The West In The Past, And May Be Used To Deceive The West Again – “For 16 years starting in 1989, Mr. Rohani served as secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council. During his tenure on the council, Mr. Rouhani led the crackdown on a 1999 student uprising and helped the regime evade Western scrutiny of its nuclear-weapons program… As Mr. Rouhani said at a pro-regime rally in July 1999: ‘At dusk yesterday we received a decisive revolutionary order to crush mercilessly and monumentally any move of these opportunist elements wherever it may occur.’ … While Iranians may know him as the man behind a brutal crackdown (one I witnessed as I was in Iran at the time), most Western diplomats know him as a nuclear negotiator during the last years of the Mohammad Khatami administration. Years later, Rouhani bragged about how he deceived the West.” Read more.