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You were saying ...
Guess they don’t really need sanctions either, since God is on their side.
Well... here's what the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob says about it... and what's going to happen. Sanctions or not -- it's not going to make any difference. It's the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob who is the One who decides how this turns out... :-)
This is the Gog/Magog War of Ezekiel 38/39, which consists of a Russian confederation of other Islamic nations, which go to attack and destroy Israel. Iran is one of those in that confederation.
Ezekiel Chapter 38

14 "Therefore, son of man, prophesy and say to Gog, 'Thus says the Lord
God: "On that day when My people Israel dwell safely, will you not know
it?

15 Then you will come from your place out of the far north, you and
many peoples with you, all of them riding on horses, a great company
and a mighty army.

16 You will come up against My people Israel like a cloud, to cover the
land. It will be in the latter days that I will bring you against My
land, so that the nations may know Me, when I am hallowed in you, O
Gog, before their eyes."

17 Thus says the Lord God: "Are you he of whom I have spoken in former
days by My servants the prophets of Israel, who prophesied for years in
those days that I would bring you against them?

18 "And it will come to pass at the same time, when Gog comes against
the land of Israel," says the Lord God, "that My fury will show in My
face.

19 For in My jealousy and in the fire of My wrath I have spoken:
'Surely in that day there shall be a great earthquake in the land of
Israel,

20 so that the fish of the sea, the birds of the heavens, the beasts of
the field, all creeping things that creep on the earth, and all men who
are on the face of the earth shall shake at My presence. The mountains
shall be thrown down, the steep places shall fall, and every wall shall
fall to the ground.'

21 I will call for a sword against Gog throughout all My mountains,"
says the Lord God. "Every man's sword will be against his brother.

22 And I will bring him to judgment with pestilence and bloodshed; I
will rain down on him, on his troops, and on the many peoples who are
with him, flooding rain, great hailstones, fire, and brimstone.

23 Thus I will magnify Myself and sanctify Myself, and I will be known
in the eyes of many nations. Then they shall know that I am the Lord."
'

Ezekiel Chapter 39

1 "And you, son of man, prophesy against Gog, and say, 'Thus says the
Lord God: "Behold, I am against you, O Gog, the prince of Rosh,
Meshech, and Tubal;

2 and I will turn you around and lead you on, bringing you up from the
far north, and bring you against the mountains of Israel.

3 Then I will knock the bow out of your left hand, and cause the arrows
to fall out of your right hand.

4 You shall fall upon the mountains of Israel, you and all your troops
and the peoples who are with you; I will give you to birds of prey of
every sort and to the beasts of the field to be devoured.

5 You shall fall on the open field; for I have spoken," says the Lord
God.

6 And I will send fire on Magog and on those who live in security in
the coastlands. Then they shall know that I am the Lord.

7 So I will make My holy name known in the midst of My people Israel,
and I will not let them profane My holy name anymore. Then the nations
shall know that I am the Lord, the Holy One in Israel.

8 Surely it is coming, and it shall be done," says the Lord God. "This
is the day of which I have spoken.

9 "Then those who dwell in the cities of Israel will go out and set on
fire and burn the weapons, both the shields and bucklers, the bows and
arrows, the javelins and spears; and they will make fires with them for
seven years.

10 They will not take wood from the field nor cut down any from the
forests, because they will make fires with the weapons; and they will
plunder those who plundered them, and pillage those who pillaged them,"
says the Lord God.

11 "It will come to pass in that day that I will give Gog a burial
place there in Israel, the valley of those who pass by east of the sea;
and it will obstruct travelers, because there they will bury Gog and
all his multitude. Therefore they will call it the Valley of Hamon Gog.

12 For seven months the house of Israel will be burying them, in order
to cleanse the land.

13 Indeed all the people of the land will be burying, and they will
gain renown for it on the day that I am glorified," says the Lord God.

14 They will set apart men regularly employed, with the help of a
search party, to pass through the land and bury those bodies remaining
on the ground, in order to cleanse it. At the end of seven months they
will make a search.

15 The search party will pass through the land; and when anyone sees a
man's bone, he shall set up a marker by it, till the buriers have
buried it in the Valley of Hamon Gog.

16 The name of the city will also be Hamonah. Thus they shall cleanse
the land." '

17 "And as for you, son of man, thus says the Lord God, 'Speak to every
sort of bird and to every beast of the field: "Assemble yourselves and
come; Gather together from all sides to My sacrificial meal Which I am
sacrificing for you, A great sacrificial meal on the mountains of
Israel, That you may eat flesh and drink blood.

18 You shall eat the flesh of the mighty, Drink the blood of the
princes of the earth, Of rams and lambs, Of goats and bulls, All of
them fatlings of Bashan.

19 You shall eat fat till you are full, And drink blood till you are
drunk, At My sacrificial meal Which I am sacrificing for you.

20 You shall be filled at My table With horses and riders, With mighty
men And with all the men of war," says the Lord God.

21 "I will set My glory among the nations; all the nations shall see My
judgment which I have executed, and My hand which I have laid on them.

22 So the house of Israel shall know that I am the Lord their God from
that day forward.

23 The Gentiles shall know that the house of Israel went into captivity
for their iniquity; because they were unfaithful to Me, therefore I hid
My face from them. I gave them into the hand of their enemies, and they
all fell by the sword.

24 According to their uncleanness and according to their transgressions
I have dealt with them, and hidden My face from them." '

25 "Therefore thus says the Lord God: 'Now I will bring back the
captives of Jacob, and have mercy on the whole house of Israel; and I
will be jealous for My holy name--

26 after they have borne their shame, and all their unfaithfulness in
which they were unfaithful to Me, when they dwelt safely in their own
land and no one made them afraid.

27 When I have brought them back from the peoples and gathered them out
of their enemies' lands, and I am hallowed in them in the sight of many
nations,

28 then they shall know that I am the Lord their God, who sent them
into captivity among the nations, but also brought them back to their
land, and left none of them captive any longer.

29 And I will not hide My face from them anymore; for I shall have
poured out My Spirit on the house of Israel,' says the Lord God."