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Highlights:
Iran infiltrates the West Bank
“Iran’s capacity for intrusions has been starved by years of sanctions,” wrote the Jerusalem Post. “Now, with the lifting of sanctions, Tehran’s appetite for encroachment has been newly whetted—and its bull’s-eye is the West Bank.”Strained relations with the Hamas terrorists are forcing Iran to look for more partners in the crime of conquering Jerusalem and wiping Israel off the map, and Iran has found them in al-Sabireen—“the Patient Ones.”Al-Sabireen consists of former members of Hamas and Islamic Jihad who think Hamas is too “soft” on Israel. The Post warned: “The Palestinians and all interested parties might remember that al-Sabireen is—if nothing else—patient.”
Trumpet editor in chief Gerald Flurry warned in his booklet Jerusalem in Prophecy: “Today the Arabs live in roughly one half of Jerusalem. They just don’t control it—yet. … Looking at the ongoing violence in Jerusalem today … we can easily see how one half of Jerusalem shall be taken captive in the very near future. The present violence is an embryo that is about to grow into much greater violence. That is the critical event prophesied in Zechariah 14:2.”Iran to sell oil in euros
Trading oil (or anything else) in U.S. dollars is huge benefit to the United States. But now that Iran can freely sell its oil on the global market, its transactions will not be denominated by the currency of its biggest and most generous partner in the recently signed nuclear deal: the United States.Iran is billing new oils sales in euros as a way of reducing its dependence on greenback, which former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad once called a “worthless piece of paper.”Creating a eurozone treasury
Franco-German central bankers have called on the eurozone to form its own treasury—a push that would represent “a quantum leap in integration to secure the single currency’s future,” reported the Telegraph.
The central bankers, Germany’s Jens Weidmann and France’s François Villeroy de Galhau exhorted eurozone members to move toward a “comprehensive sharing of sovereignty.”In 1998—before euro nations began converting to the new currency—we wrote: “Monetary union is but a means to an end—the fiscal means to achieving the goal of political union—a federation of European nation-states—in fact, a European empire.”
U.S. is subordinate to Iran in Middle East
Speaking at the 37th anniversary of the 1979 Iranian Revolution, the commander of Iran’s Basij paramilitary force, Mohammed Reza Naqdi, tried to compare the Iran of today with the Iran before the revolution.Naqdi found it impossible to make a comparison because “back then, Iran was subordinate to the American administration, while today, the United States subordinates to Iran’s dominance in the Middle East and it cannot act in the region without getting the approval of the supreme leader of Iran.”This is why Iran is the king of the south.Russia’s surprise military drills near Ukraine border
Russian is testing its troops’ readiness in military maneuvers it’s conducting along its border with Ukraine.The National Post wrote that these drills could be part of Russian “muscle flexing amid the tensions with [Turkey]. They also come at a time when a peace deal intended to end fighting between Ukrainian government troops and Russia-backed rebels in eastern Ukraine appears to be in jeopardy amid increasingly frequent clashes in recent weeks.”“Putin knows the West is weak!” wrote Mr. Flurry in the September 2014 Trumpet. “He doesn’t fear other nations. He is totally undeterred in his quest to destabilize Ukraine. He is single-handedly preventing that former Soviet republic from aligning itself with Europe. … He is steadily rebuilding the Soviet Empire.”Other news:
A Saudi news source reported on Tuesday that Saudi military spokesman, Brig. Gen. Ahmed al-Asiri, said his country is prepared for a ground war in Syria—ostensibly for the sole purpose of fighting the Islamic State.Europe’s migration crisis is putting pressure on leaders in Eastern and southeastern Europe “in a way not seen since the end of communism,” wrote Manuel Bewarder and Boris Kalnoky for Die Welt. An anti-migrant eastern European Union of sorts, with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán as emperor, appears to be coalescing.Roughly 605,000 driver’s licenses were issued to illegal immigrants in California last year after the implementation of Assembly Bill 60 at the start of 2015.The controversial leader of the Nation of Islam movement, Louis Farrakhan, visited Iran to speak at a ceremony in Tehran on Thursday marking the 37th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution. Farrakhan is known for his racist and anti-Semitic rhetoric.Get more details on these stories and more by subscribing to the Trumpet Weekly!
