“Not by might, nor by power, but by My Spirit,” says Yahweh Sabaoth.
(Zechariah 4: 6)
_____________
#####
Iranian Leaders are Running Scared
See the articles below:
More than 50 Iranian dissidents and former political prisoners have urged US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to enforce sanctions against IRIB, the Iranian regime’s official broadcaster.
The regime’s main propaganda arm, IRIB was exempted from US sanctions by a 2013 waiver – the result of a side agreement in which Tehran undertook not to jam outside broadcasts. That waiver, however, expires on Thursday. The Iranian dissidents told Pompeo in their letter that the regime “continues to interfere with satellite broadcasting into Iran by the practice of terrestrial jamming.” The sanctions waiver on IRIB should “be revoked or allowed to expire,” the letter said.
The dissidents highlighted IRIB‘s role in perpetrating the Iranian regime’s systematic abuses of human rights.
As a new wave of protests has emerged in Iran in recent weeks, “Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) has played, and continues to play, a central role in the human rights abuses perpetrated in Iran,” the letter said. As with previous protests, IRIB‘s reporting of the latest anti-regime demonstrations “began by not reporting the protests; then defamed protesters by labeling them foreign agents, terrorists, drug addicts and criminals; then later broadcasted numerous forced confessions supporting such false labels; and ultimately televised images of protesters and requested viewers to identify them for security forces,” the letter said.
One of the world’s biggest cargo shippers announced on Saturday it was pulling out of Iran for fear of becoming entangled in US sanctions, and President Hassan Rouhani demanded that European countries do more to offset the US measures.
The announcement by France’s CMA CGM that it was quitting Iran deals a blow to Tehran’s efforts to persuade European countries to keep their companies operating in Iran despite the threat of new American sanctions.
Iran says it needs more help from Europe to keep alive an agreement with world powers to curb its nuclear program. US President Donald Trump abandoned the agreement in May and has announced new sanctions on Tehran. Washington has ordered all countries to stop buying Iranian oil by November and foreign firms to stop doing business there or face US blacklists.
European powers which still support the nuclear deal say they will do more to encourage their businesses to remain engaged with Iran. But the prospect of being banned in the United States appears to be enough to persuade European companies to keep out.
Foreign ministers from the five remaining signatory countries to the nuclear deal — Britain, France, Germany, China and Russia — offered a package of economic measures to Iran on Friday but Tehran said they did not go far enough.
“European countries have the political will to maintain economic ties with Iran based on the JCPOA (the nuclear deal), but they need to take practical measures within the time limit,” Rouhani said on Saturday on his official website.
Suddenly, everyone feels sorry for Gaza.
Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman recently said, “Enough with all the delusions and illusions that improving the economic situation will put an end to terror.” Instead, he said, the economic situation is doing the exact opposite, as evidenced by the deal with Cyprus to build a seaport there for Gazans.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said that “Israel will continue searching for ways to improve the humanitarian situation in Gaza.” Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz has been invited to the White House to close a deal with envoys Jared Kushner and Jason Greenblatt to develop Gaza’s offshore natural gas reservoir, and find “solutions that will ease the humanitarian situation, including the supply of electricity and water.”
Donald Trump’s special envoys also seem to be focusing on Gaza. “What’s happening in Gaza is very sad. The humanitarian situation there began way before President Trump began his term in office, but we still have to do what we can to improve it,” Kushner said two weeks ago in an interview with the Arab newspaper Al-Quds. Greenblatt mainly uses Twitter to note the crisis in Gaza, although he does so while pointing an accusatory finger at Hamas.
However, herein is the crux of the matter. As long as Hamas controls Gaza, its belligerence towards Israel won’t decline, even if the economy there unexpectedly booms. There are sufficient historical examples — from the disengagement to the days following Operation Protective Edge — to illustrate this. The idea that improving living conditions in Gaza will reduce Gazans’ hostility toward Israel is an illusion. Those who disagree need only look east.
The Iranian regime is starting to feel the adverse effects of American sanctions choking its economy. The Iranian people are paying for the leaders’ crimes, although presently it’s difficult to see another viable way besides war to curb this regime’s violent, expansionist ambitions.
Israel ardently supports applying heavy pressure on Iran. Netanyahu has waged an all-out war on the nuclear deal with Iran, partly because the billions of dollars that Iran received as part of the deal weren’t used for the benefit of regular Iranian citizens, but to fuel the ayatollahs’ aggression throughout the Middle East.
Iranian Leaders are Between a Rock and a Hard Place
Iranian leaders are in an unenviable position, but they got there thanks to their own evil ways. For 8 long years under Barack Obama’s presidency, they had their way. I know it’s hard to believe, but they bullied the United States, and Obama and John Kerry took it.
That’s history. President Trump won’t allow anyone to bully him. Just ask the establishment media. They know. Their bullying has backfired and hit them in the face hard. Today, most Americans see the establishment media as a sick joke. You have to turn to “liberal progressives” to find support for the establishment media. Thankfully, they are the minority.
Iranian leaders are desperately searching for support and finding practically none. At home and abroad, Iranian leaders look like what they are—wimps in robes with big mouths.
It’s time to pay the fiddler, and President Trump plays a mean fiddle.
#####
_____________
#####
#####
_____________
#####
“The glory which You have given Me I have given to them, that they may be one, just as We are one; I in them and You in Me, that they may be perfected in unity, so that the world may know that You sent Me, and loved them, even as You have loved Me. Father, I desire that they also, whom You have given Me, be with Me where I am, so that they may see My glory which You have given Me, for You loved Me before the foundation of the world.” (John 17: 22-24)
