Editor’s Note:
One of the Goals
of God’s
Unchanging Word
is to assist in
keeping God’s
elect informed
of breaking
news events
that is
prophetic
worthy. The
following story
is one that
could be of
great
significance.
John Bolton
former, US
Ambassador to
the U.N. stated
today that if
Israel wants to
stop Iran’s
Nuclear Power
Plant from going
online, they
will have to do
it within the
next 72 hours.
Immediately
following that
statement Iran,
sent their own
warning via the
press stating.
"that anything
Israel did would
be viewed as an
International
attack."
If Iran is able
to bring this
plant on line,
it will be
viewed as a
great victory
that none of
Israel’s foes
have been able
to accomplish
before this
time. It will
also be seen as
a major defeat
to the Obama
administration’s
policy of
appeasement. In
addition to an
Iranian victory,
Russia will be
seen as the ally
to allow this
process to be
brought to the
next stage of
fulfillment.
Should Israel
decide to strike
after the 21st,
it would mean
the reality that
radioactivity
would be
released into
the air. The
potential of
Luke 21:20, of
seeing armies
surrounding
Jerusalem
continues to
shape up.
Consider this,
Iran has a
nuclear plant,
maybe several in
the near future.
It is discovered
that they have
also
successfully
created a
nuclear bomb and
begins to
threaten to
completely wipe
Israel off the
face of the
earth. Israel
gives a dead
line to Iran
before they drop
the bomb in a
preemptive
measure. What
will happen.
Nearly every
nation on the
planet will move
to stop the war,
and the
potential is to
have armies
surround
Jerusalem as a
peace keeping
fore to prevent
WWIII. Just a
thought.
The following
is the statement
by John Bolton
and the response
by Iran.
It may be an
interesting 72
hours
We’ll be keeping
watch,
Your brother in
Christ
Tom Kerry
Tue Aug 17,
8:02 am ET
WASHINGTON (AFP)
– Israel has
"eight days" to
launch a
military strike
against Iran's
Bushehr nuclear
facility and
stop Tehran from
acquiring a
functioning
atomic plant, a
former US envoy
to the UN has
said.
Iran is to bring
online its first
nuclear power
reactor, built
with Russia's
help, on August
21, when a
shipment of
nuclear fuel
will be loaded
into the plant's
core.
At that point,
John Bolton
warned Monday,
it will be too
late for Israel
to launch a
military strike
against the
facility because
any attack would
spread radiation
and affect
Iranian
civilians.
"Once that
uranium, once
those fuel rods
are very close
to the reactor,
certainly once
they're in the
reactor,
attacking it
means a release
of radiation, no
question about
it," Bolton told
Fox Business
Network".
So if Israel is
going to do
anything against
Bushehr it has
to move in the
next eight
days."
Absent an
Israeli strike,
Bolton said,
"Iran will
achieve
something that
no other
opponent of
Israel, no other
enemy of the
United States in
the Middle East
really has and
that is a
functioning
nuclear
reactor."
But when asked
whether he
expected Israel
to actually
launch strikes
against Iran
within the next
eight days,
Bolton was
skeptical.
"I don't think
so, I'm afraid
that they've
lost this
opportunity," he
said.
The
controversial
former envoy to
the United
Nations
criticized
Russia's role in
the development
of the plant,
saying "the
Russians are, as
they often do,
playing both
sides against
the middle."
"The idea of
being able to
stick a thumb in
America's eye
always figures
prominently in
Moscow," he
added. Iran
dismissed the
possibilities of
such an attack
from its arch
foes.
Foreign Ministry
spokesman, Ramin
Mehmanparast
said Tuesday
that "these
threats of
attacks had
become
repetitive and
lost their
meaning."
"According to
international
law,
installations
which have real
fuel cannot be
attacked because
of the
humanitarian
consequences,"
he told
reporters at a
news conference
in Tehran.
Iranian
officials say
Iran has stepped
up defensive
measures at the
Bushehr plant to
protect it from
any attacks.
Russia has been
building the
Bushehr plant
since the
mid-1990s but
the project was
marred by
delays, and the
issue is hugely
sensitive amid
Tehran's
standoff with
the West and
Israel over its
nuclear
ambitions.
The UN Security
Council hit
Tehran with a
fourth set of
sanctions on
June 9 over its
nuclear
program., and
the United
States and
European Union
followed up with
tougher punitive
measures
targeting Iran's
banking and
energy sectors.
The Bushehr
project was
first launched
by the late shah
in the 1970s
using
contractors from
German firm
Siemens. But it
was shelved when
he was deposed
in the 1979
Islamic
revolution.
It was revived
after the death
of revolutionary
founder
Ayatollah
Ruhollah
Khomeini
in 1989, as
Iran's new
supreme leader
Ali Khamenei and
his first
president, Akbar
Hashemi
Rafsanjani,
backed the
project.
In 1995, Iran
won the support
of Russia which
agreed to finish
building the
plant and fuel
it.
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Iran warned
Tuesday that an
attack on its
first nuclear
power plant
would amount to
an
'international
crime,” as John
Bolton, a former
US envoy to the
UN, said Israel
had “eight days”
to launch a
military strike
against Iran’s
Bushehr nuclear
facility and
stop Tehran
acquiring a
functioning
atomic plant.
“Attacking an
international
plant is an
international
crime as the
consequences
will not be
limited to the
hosting country
but will have a
global
aftermath,”
Iran’s nuclear
chief Ali Akbar
Salehi told IRNA
agency.
Iran’s first
nuclear power
plant near the
southern port
city of Bushehr
will go online
on August 21 to
eventually
generate
electricity, at
a time of
mounting
international
pressure on Iran
over its atomic
program.
The US and
Israel, which
accuse Iran of
seeking nuclear
arms, have never
ruled out a
military strike
to curb Iran’s
atomic drive.
Iran insists the
program is
solely aimed at
peaceful ends.
Bolton said late
Monday Israel
had “eight days”
to launch a
military strike
against the
nuclear plant.
At that point,
Bolton warned,
it would be too
late for Israel
to launch a
strike against
the facility
because any
attack would
spread radiation
and affect
Iranian
civilians.
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