Back to the Gulf - US plans significant military presence in Kuwait

WASHINGTON (AP) - The United States is planning a significant military presence of 13,500 troops in Kuwait to give it the flexibility to respond to sudden conflicts in the region as Iraq adjusts to the withdrawal of American combat forces and the world nervously eyes Iran, according to a congressional report.

The study by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee examined the U.S. relationship with the six nations of the Gulf Cooperation Council - Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and Oman - against a fast-moving backdrop. In just the last two days, Saudi Arabia's ruler named Defense Minister Prince Salman bin Abdul-Aziz as the country's new crown prince after last week's death of Prince Nayef, and Kuwait's government suspended parliament for a month over an internal political feud.

The latest developments inject even more uncertainty as the Middle East deals with the demands of the Arab Spring, the end to U.S. combat operations in Iraq at the end of 2011 and fears of Iran's nuclear program.

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And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on them, having breastplates of fire, and of jacinth, and brimstone: and the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions; and out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone.

Revelation 9:17

Russia readies warships/ helicopter gunships for Syria

Russia has announced it is readying two warships to sail to Syria to protect Russian citizens, in a sign that it is taking precautions against a worsening of the security situation there.
Sergei Lavrov, Russia’s foreign minister, has denied that Russia is selling arms to Syria which can be used against civilians, and Russia says it is not violating any UN sanctions or treaty obligations in doing so. Last year, Russia sold anti-aircraft missiles to Syria as well as missile batteries designed to fend off seaborne attacks, and signed a contract to supply 36 Yak-130 trainer aircraft for $550m. Recently it signed a contract to supply 24 MiG-29 advanced fighter bombers.

Russia has admitted it is repairing a number of helicopter gunships for the Syrian army which were originally sold in Soviet times. According to news reports, these helicopters are en route to Syria from the Russian port of Kaliningrad, although Russia’s defence minister declined to comment on the story on Monday.

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BREAKING - Large-scale military drill by Russia, China and Iran in Syria

June 18 – An Arabic language website claims that China, Russia and Iran are going to carry out a large-scale military maneuver in Syria, “the biggest of its kind in the Middle-East history,” the semiofficial Fars-news agency reported Monday.

The joint exercise will be at sea, air and land on Syrian soil, the website Al-Shakhoura is quoted by Fars. It added that 90 000 military personnel, 400 air planes and 900 tanks will take part in the drill.

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Iran designing nuclear submarine says report

Iran has begun to design its first nuclear submarine, the Islamic Republic's semiofficial news agency Fars reported on Tuesday.

The Fars report quotes deputy navy chief in charge of technical affairs, Rear Admiral Abbas Zamini, as saying that Iran has begun "initial stages" of designing the nuclear-powered craft.

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Sixth Trumpet Watch! US: Russia sending Syria attack helicopters

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Obama administration said Tuesday that Russia is sending attack helicopters to Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime and warned that the Arab country's 15-month conflict could become even deadlier.

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said the U.S. was "concerned about the latest information we have that there are attack helicopters on the way from Russia to Syria."

She said the shipment "will escalate the conflict quite dramatically."

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WAR DRUMS! Iranian general: Our finger is on war trigger

Iranian general: Our finger is on war trigger

Seems like the news from Syria never changes ... another massacre ... Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says Assad must go ... the military fires on protesters ... Ah, but it is changing ... dramatically. Iran's armed forces have formed a joint war room that includes officers from Syria, Iran's military and the Revolutionary Guard and Hezbollah. A top Iranian general warns his country has its finger on the "war trigger." And all the parties in this coalition see the coming conflict as an opportunity to put "the Zionist regime ... within range of the resistance fire." Everything is pointing to a major, bloody regional war ... on Israel's northern border. Click here to read the full article.

Commentary: Israel Would Be Justified in Launching a Strike Against Iran

COMMENTARY | An AFP report that Israel has equipped a flotilla of German-made submarines with nuclear-equipped missiles constitutes an ominous development in the game of nuclear brinkmanship in the Middle East.

Despite repeated denials, it has been accepted that Iran is developing a nuclear arsenal. While,according to the U.K. Guardian, the U.S. has been conducting cyberattacks against Iran's nuclear program as well as attempting to impede it via diplomacy and economic sanctions, Israel has maintained the right to stop Iran's nuclear aspirations by military means.

The Belfer Center has concluded Israel has the ability to strike at Iran's nuclear facilities, many of them underground in hardened position, using long-range F-15s armed with American supplied bunker buster bombs. But such an approach would be risky and might involve heavy casualties among Israeli pilots.

A flotilla of nuclear armed submarines, positioned in the Persian Gulf perhaps, might provide an alternative way of taking out Iran's nuclear program and, at the same time, providing a lesson in what happens when an enemy of Israel contemplates using nuclear weapons.

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Sixth Trumpet Watch - U.S. sees "apparent clean-up" at Iran site

VIENNA (Reuters) - A senior U.S. official said on Tuesday that Iran was carrying out apparent clean-up efforts at a military site, Parchin, that the U.N. nuclear watchdog wants to visit as part of a probe into suspected atom bomb research in the Islamic state.

Robert Wood, acting head of the U.S. mission to the International Atomic Energy Agency, also told the IAEA's 35-nation board that Iran had produced enough low-enriched uranium for several nuclear weapons if refined further to high levels.

"Iran has actually accelerated its production of low-enriched uranium," Wood said, according to a copy of his statement.

"There appears no immediate peaceful need for such stockpiles or for such an acceleration of the program, and we would note that this quantity of low-enriched uranium is enough for several nuclear weapons if further enriched to higher levels."

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Sixth Trumpet Watch: "Moscow talks on nukes will be fruitless" - Tehran

Iran, which has denied clandestinely developing nuclear weapons technology, is now bragging its nuclear achievements have brought power and prestige to the Islamic world.

Tehran also says the third round of talks with the P5+1 world powers over its illicit nuclear program, to be held in Moscow this month, will be fruitless. The P5+1 comprises U.N. Security Council permanent members the U.S., Britain, France, China and Russia, plus non-permanent member Germany.

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WAR DRUMS - Iran Threatens America

[Threat: noun 1. a declaration of an intention or determination to inflict punishment, injury, etc., in retaliation for, or conditionally upon, some action or course] see here.

DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran has warned the United States not to resort to military action against it, saying U.S. bases in the region were vulnerable to the Islamic Republic's missiles, state media reported on Saturday.

The comments by a senior Iranian military commander were an apparent response to U.S. officials who have said Washington was ready to use military force to stop what it suspects is Iran's goal to develop a nuclear weapons capability.

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Report: Obama ordered wave of attacks on Iran

President Barack Obama ordered a secret wave of sophisticated computer attacks on Iranian nuclear enrichment facilities, according to the New York Times.

Obama decided to accelerate the program, begun under the Bush administration and code-named "Olympic Games," even after the some of the code of computer worm used in the cyberattacks was revealed on the Internet, the Times reported today.

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Report: Iran using passenger jets to smuggle weapons to Syria, Lebanon

Iran’s government has repeatedly used commercial aircraft to smuggle weapons and explosives to Syria and Lebanon, the German broadcaster ZDF reported Wednesday.

ZDF, citing Western security sources and unspecified information it said it had obtained, reported that  Iran Air and Yas Air, both based in Iran, have repeatedly used aircraft designated as passenger planes to transport weapons to Damascus and Beirut.  It was not clear from the report what type of weaponry was involved.

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Iran dismantles/sweeps nuke site ahead of UN inspection

(Reuters) - U.N. nuclear inspectors displayed new satellite imagery on Wednesday indicating that some small buildings had been dismantled and other possible clean-up work undertaken at an Iranian military site they want to visit.

One image from May 25 showed signs that "ground-scraping activities" had taken place at the Parchin facility, as well as the presence of a bulldozer, according to diplomats who attended a closed-door briefing by U.N. nuclear agency officials.

Iran target of "supervirus" much bigger than stuxnet

A Russian computer firm has discovered a new computer virus with unprecedented destructive potential that chiefly targets Iran and could be used as a "cyberweapon" by the West and Israel.

Kaspersky Lab, one of the world's biggest producers of anti-virus software, said its experts discovered the virus -- known as Flame -- during an investigation prompted by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU).

Iran appears to have been the main target of the attack and the announcement comes just a month after the Islamic Republic said it halted the spread of a data-deleting virus targeting computer servers in its oil sector.

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Sixth Trumpet Watch - Israel pins Syria massacre on Iran

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday voiced "revulsion" over the bloodshed in Syria, while accusing Iran and its Lebanese militia ally Hezbollah of being accomplices.

He was "revolted was by the incessant massacres conducted bySyrian President Bashar Assad's forces against ... civilians ... which continued over the weekend in the town of Houla," the premier's office said.

"Iran and Hezbollah are an inseparable part of the Syrian atrocities, and the world needs to act against them too," Netanyahu was quoted as saying.

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Sixth Trumpet Watch - UN Security Council to hold emergency meeting on Syria massacre

Diplomats say the U.N. Security Council will hold an emergency meeting Sunday afternoon to discuss the recent massacre in the Syrian town of Houla that left more than 90 people dead.

The diplomats say Britain and France proposed issuing a press statement condemning the Houla massacre, but Russia told council members it could not agree and wanted a briefing first by the general heading the U.N. observer mission in Syria.

The diplomats, speaking on condition of anonymity, say the briefing by Maj. Gen. Robert Mood was being arranged. Russia called for a council meeting to begin at 2:30 p.m. (1830 GMT).

The U.N. and others have issued statements appearing to hold the Syrian regime of President Bashar Assad responsible. The Syrian government has denied responsibility for the Houla killings.

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WAR DRUMS - Iran's Ahmadinejad urges unity against 'evil'

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad urged the country's newly-elected parliament on Sunday to stand with him against "evil ones" who he says have encircled the nation.

The president's address to the opening session of the parliament was seen as an appeal to conservative opponents who crushed Ahmadinejad's allies in voting that ended earlier this month.

"Today, evils have been mobilized from all directions to put the Iranian nation under pressure. Removing and resisting the pressures, and cooperation, are the main priority today," Ahmadinejad told lawmakers without elaboration. State TV broadcast the speech live.

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SIXTH TRUMPET WATCH - U.S. Senate approves tougher Iran sanctions

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate unanimously approved on Monday a package of new economic sanctions on Iran's oil sector just days ahead of a meeting in Baghdad between major world powers and Tehran.


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Obama Admits: "Iran Threatened to Destroy Israel"

Yahoo's "The Ticket" reported today on President Barack Obama's visit to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington D.C. where he  unveiled new sanctions targeting Iran and Syria and extended American aid in the hunt for Joseph Kony, the Lord's Resistance Army warlord.

In a stunning statement hidden in plain view as a "matter of fact" admission Obama confirmed that Iran has outright threatened to destroy Israel.

"When faced with a regime that threatens global security and denies the Holocaust and threatens to destroy Israel, the United States will do everything in our power to prevent Iran from getting a nuclear weapon," he stressed.

This has been a bone of contention even in the Republican primary as Ron Paul has hinted that he doesn't see Iran as an unwarranted threat and supposed they should be excused for desiring atomic weapons since Israel has them, or so goes the logic.

Yet Israel has never threatened to wipe out Iran and has only ever suggested that Iran's nuclear ambitions be undone because Iran's leadership has expressed a desire to cleanse the land of the infidel presence - and that means Israel must disappear.

Barack Obama has confirmed this information in today's comments at the Memorial Museum; something most of us have always known. Question: what will be done about it? Answer: stay tuned! Now - if we could only get Alex Jones and Ron Paul to finally admit it!

Wormwood Prophecy?... Done! First Five Trumpets Already FULFILLED!

People ask us all the time - "how could we be facing the sixth trumpet when the first five haven't happened"? Yet we have had video evidence for years now that the first five have been fulfilled in stunning detail.

The third trumpet was axiomatic. It was the clearest fulfillment by far. Many who watch for this sort of thing had their lights turned on when the details of "wormwood" matched an event in our time; in our current generation. Following that it was simply a matter of looking back to fit the pieces of the puzzle together for the first two. Again, the events in recent time matched perfectly with trumpets one and two.

Following that many of us looked to more recent events to see if the fourth and fifth trumpets could be identified in modern time events and lo and behold there was little room for doubt - we were living in the trumpet days of Revelation.

Watch this, our first video on the world-famous PPSIMMONS youtube channel. Wormwood? - DONE!

Now watch as the other four of the first five trumpets fall into line in this amazing video evidence that the endtime is not coming... the endtime is now!