The Cloud Thieves

Iran has accused Israel of “weather theft” by:

“Cunningly manipulating clouds to prevent rain falling over Iran,” according to a report in the Jerusalem Post.  An Iranian general made the accusation.

Today, an Israeli social media Millennial tweeted photoshopped images of Israeli commandos walking in the clouds, stealing Iranian clouds.

I almost spit my coffee out laughing when I saw that. But here’s a funnier thought:

I hope this story is true.

Iran is in the middle of a catastrophic drought, and as has been discussed previously, the regime spends its (the Peoples’) oil revenue on terror activities around the world, particularly now in Syria. By definition, this makes Iran guilty of war crimes. And, with the Iranian people holding mass demonstrations, it’s obvious that Public Enemy no. 1 is the jihadists in Tehran, not the Iranian people.

Back to the cloud thieves. According to the report:

“Brigadier General Gholam Reza Jalali, head of Iran’s Civil Defence Organisation, said that the changing climate and drought in Iran is ‘suspect’ and a coalescence of malign, anti-Iran forces are to blame, according to the semi-official ISNA news agency.

 

“’Foreign interference is suspected to have played a role in climate change,’ General Jalali insisted, adding that an Iranian scientific study ‘confirms’ the claim.”

Of course it does. This is on the level of North Korean paranoia.

Jalali claims that Israel and “another country in the region” are manipulating the weather. One can safely assume the other country is Saudi Arabia, since the Saudis and Israelis are collaborating on all sorts of things in an unprecedented way—directly because of the Iran nuclear threat. The Saudis know Iran wants to control the whole of the Middle East, so questions of Iranian hegemony are uppermost on leaders’ minds.

We do know that “someone” has been infiltrating the Iranian high command and nuclear community to disrupt the regime’s lethal program, aided immeasurably by Barack Obama. President Trump has severely rolled-back the benefits Obama gave to our mortal enemy.

Amazingly, the head of  Iran’s meteorological service, Ahad Vazife, says that it isn’t possible for a country to “steal snow or clouds.”

That’ll get him in hot water.

 

Regimes like this thrive on false information that, again, fall into the paranoia camp.

The Iranian claims sound like a spoof of a spoof spy movie; think Derek Flint spoofing James Bond. The Blofeld character, in this case the mullahs, accuse the West of the craziest things.

Former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has actually said:

“Western countries have designed plans to cause drought in certain areas of the world, including Iran.”

Now, this becomes not comical when one considers that a classic bit of anti-Semitism is to accuse the Jews of controlling everything from the Fed to, well, weather.

It isn’t true, of course, but people believe it! And this in turn makes the world dangerous for  Jews.

In fact—and this is an aside—I am very concerned about the level of such thought among American evangelicals, who are in increasing numbers believing the worst Jewish stereotypes.

I routinely hear people in the Church make claims against Jews that are at least as crazy as the one put forth by Iran.

In our upside-down world, the victim is the villain.

Jim1fletcher@yahoo.com

 

 

Reversal of Fortunes

Well, well, well.

Now that Trump has encouraged North Korea’s Blofeld to “modify” his behavior, terror regimes the world over are quaking in their jackboots.

Now comes word that the Iranian people—no enemies of America—are holding massive protests, with an eye toward toppling the jihad regime in Tehran.

A recent tweet from journalist Sohrab Ahmari tells the tale:

“MUST-WATCH: Crowds in Iran are chanting “Death to Palestine!” Not to Israel. Not to America. But to Palestine. Hamas and Hezbollah and Palestinian Jihad can kiss their Iranian funding goodbye if the regime falls.”

He believes Iran and Turkey are “switching places.”

From a piece he just published in Commentary:

“Bernard Lewis issued a startling prediction in 2010: Iran—the land of scowling ayatollahs and flag burnings—would abandon Islamism by the end of the decade, while Turkey—Washington’s stalwart Cold War ally—would turn away from the West and burrow deeper into its Muslim identity. Lewis is no longer with us, and there are still a few years left in his wager, but events in both countries are proving him remarkably prescient.”

Erdogan in Turkey “won” his election over the weekend, and his increasingly strident, Islamist tone is dangerous. He would no doubt love to replace the mullahs of Iran as the preeminent thug government in the region.

According to Ahmari:

“It is high time to recognize that, for now, Turkey is lost to the West.”

Notice how responsible he is in his opinion writing; he says “for now.” No dogmatic insistence that Turkey will do this, this, and this for the next 50 years. Just a reasonable observation in the present. Many prophecy teachers could take a lesson.

Now he turns his attention to Iran:

“The latest slogan: ‘Death to Palestine!’

“You read that right. In a country that has become synonymous with Holocaust-denial cartoon contests and threats to wipe Israel off the map, people are chanting ‘Death to Palestine.’ Iranians don’t have a beef with Palestinians, of course. But they have had it with their regime’s decades-long underwriting of Hezbollah, Hamas, and other Palestinian terror groups. Why is our national wealth going to Gaza, they ask, rather than to Tehran, Isfahan, and Shiraz? The regime has no good answer to such questions. It has to resort to the truncheon, and that may work for a time, perhaps for many more years. But not forever.”

Iranian truck drivers, teachers, steelworkers, hospital staff, and railway employees are on strike. You can bet they didn’t see a penny of the $150 billion Obama gave the mullahs.

Ahmari makes a very interesting point. Even if the mullahs are overthrown, no one is really sure what will follow. And, historically, modern Iran has been a socialist-type state, where land ownership for the citizenry is almost unheard of. Still, seeing the Islamist fundamentalists thrown into the trash bin would be wonderful for all involved.

It is all very similar to pre-and-post-Czarist Russia. The czars were either average or beastly, and yet the Bolsheviks that followed were catastrophically evil.

So while no one knows what is coming down the pike, we can look forward with glee to the day the world’s biggest sponsor of terrorism globally comes crashing down.

Thanks for nothing, Jimmy Carter.

Jim1fletcher@yahoo.com