Why Iran Gets Away With Murder

JERUSALEM—Israeli’s prime minister is using speeches, interviews and meetings to raise awareness about Iran’s worldwide terror campaign.

Over the last two years, Iran has stepped up its acts of terrorism against Israel and the West. As the Washington Post editorialized on Friday, “Using the territory of countries across the world, working sometimes through proxies like Lebanon’s Hezbollah and sometimes with its own forces, Tehran has been intentionally targeting not just diplomats of enemies such as Israel and Saudi Arabia but also civilians.”

And Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu adamantly maintains that Iran should be held responsible for these crimes. Citing recent attacks including the bombing of a bus carrying Israeli tourists in Bulgaria and a similar failed attempt in Cyprus, Netanyahu told Fox News on Sunday, “It’s the same modus operandi. … It’s them [speaking of Iran] and we know it.”

The most recent failed attempt in Cyprus led to the capture of an admitted Hezbollah operative, who was attempting to carry out an attack similar to the one that succeeded last week in Bulgaria. That alone says a lot about who was behind the Bulgaria bombing.

Added to that, Netanyahu said, Israeli intelligence has proven beyond a doubt that Iran was behind the Bulgaria blast. “Here I’m not surmising,” he said in his interview. “I’m giving you something that I know, as the prime minister of Israel, because I know based on absolutely rock solid intelligence this is Hezbollah and this is something that Iran knows about very, very well.”

The Bulgaria bombing, incidentally, was the ninth terrorist plot that has been blamed on Iran—just this year alone. It’s the third attack in the month of July! In all of these attacks over the last year, or attempted attacks, five Iranians and two Hezbollah operatives have been captured.

“It’s them. We know it,” said Netanyahu. By using terrorist proxies, Netanyahu told Fox News, Iran is able to conceal its violent agenda. But it’s time for the world to force Iran to take responsibility for its acts of terror, he said.

“It’s very brazen,” he continued. “How can Iran be doing this and getting away with murder, literally? It’s because nobody names and shames them.”

They’re getting away with murder. But really, it’s not just because nobody names them or calls them out—it’s really much worse than that. What we are witnessing, as Gerald Flurry commented after President Obama’s Cairo speech in 2009, is a reenactment of the 1930s between Chamberlain and Hitler, when Chamberlain tried to negotiate with a murderer. He tried to negotiate with a killer—a mass murderer.

Daniel 11:40 reveals the nature of Iran’s radical Islamist agenda. It says at the beginning of the verse: “And at the time of the end shall the king of the south push at him ….”

Note that word push. That has been Iran’s pattern. It has consistently pushed and provoked either Israel or the United States. Until it’s confronted head-on, then we should expect that to continue. In fact, the Bible says that it will until this spectacular clash that Daniel 11 speaks of. It will continue.

For more on this, be sure to read The King of the South.