Please read the attached article and pray accordingly. This is one of the most dangerous situations on earth. Please pray for Iran that it will change its stance regarding the acquisition of nuclear weapons and avowed intention to use them against Israel, the USA, and other Western nations.

Excerpt from an article in Newsmax by Jim Meyers and Kathleen Walter:

Middle East expert Walid Phares tells Newsmax that the Obama administration is not convinced that the Iranians pose a serious danger – even as a top Iranian official declared that his country is prepared to launch a pre-emptive strike. Phares, while nothing that he believes the Iranian quest for nuclear weapons is “not stoppable,” also says a resolution passed in the U.S. Senate last week is a “message to the administration” that it is time to confront the Islamic republic before it obtains such weapons…

An Iranian official vowed that his country would take pre-emptive action against its enemies if it felt its national interests were endangered. “Our strategy now is that, if we feel our enemies want to endanger Iran’s national interests and want to decide to do that, we will act without waiting for their actions,” said Mohammad Hejazi, the deputy head of the Islamic republic’s armed forces.

In the exclusive interview with Newmax TV, Phares says economic sanctions on the Iranians won’t persuade them to stop their nuclear weapons development efforts. “The Iranian regime is convinced that they are going to go forward with their program, he says.

“That program includes the nuclear weapon but also the delivery system. They’re working very hard on missiles, both intercontinental when they can, and regional, and certinaly they can put Israel, most of the Arab countries, Europe, Moscow, India, and our fleet in the Gulf and in the eastern Mediterranean in their range. “But they are also going to try to negotiate gain time. In the meantime, the buildup of their weapons system is on. It’s not stoppable.”

Asked whether Israel will disregard urging from the United States not to launch a pre-emptive attack on Iran, Phares responds: “Certainly the Israelis have their own clock that is different from the American clock, the European one, or the Arab one. It has to do with the width of Israel. It has to do with Israel unaccepting the idea that they could absorb one strike. “So if the Iranian regime is very close to putting a weapon on a missile, then no questions asked, [the Israelis] are going to try to take action.”…Pahres adds: “What you see in Iran is preparation for confrontation, and if you don’t confront them, it’s like the National Socialists in the ‘30s. If you don’t stop them, they’re going to continue. After Czechoslovakia, it was Poland, then France. And after Iraq, it’s Syria and then Lebanon and eastern Arabia.

“It seems to me the Obama administration is not convinced that the Iranians are really a threat. It is convinced that they are a nuisance and a deal eventually after those sanctions would work.  That’s the view of this administration. But what we have now in the Middle East is way more dangerous than what we had before, even after the killing of bin Laden and after the Arab spring. What we have now is an Iran that is much closer to the bomb. And you have the rest of the Middle East falling slowly under the hands of the Muslim Brotherhood.”

The United States needs to contain Iran and the jihadists and partner with real democratic forces in the Middle East that are ready to work with America, Phares says.