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  • Bibles for Iran? Be ready, ministry urges Christians

    04/23/2026 9:41:51 PM PDT · by CondoleezzaProtege · 15 replies
    The Christian Chronicle ^ | Apr 2026 | Erik Tryggestad
    Missionaries in Vienna, Austria, launched Eastern European Mission in 1961 to smuggle Bibles in all the languages of the Soviet World — Hungarian, Romanian, Polish and Russian, to name a few. Farsi wasn’t on the list. Workers with EEM are preparing not only to supply more Bibles for Iranians in Europe but also to send God’s Word into Iran itself. “We cannot wait for that moment and then start deciding what to do,” said Bob Burckle, EEM’s president. “The Bible already exists in the languages many Iranian people can read,” and depending on the outcome of the current conflict, “the...
  • Iran’s exiled crown prince Reza Pahlavi splattered with red liquid in Berlin

    04/23/2026 9:26:53 AM PDT · by CondoleezzaProtege · 14 replies
    Associated Press ^ | Apr 23, 2026 | Markus Schreiber; Claudia Ciobanu
    Iran’s exiled Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi was splattered with red liquid on Thursday as he left a building in Berlin. Pahlavi had just departed a news briefing, during which he criticized the ceasefire between the United States and Iran, when the incident occurred outside Germany’s federal news conference building. He appeared unhurt by the liquid coating the back of his blazer and neck, and waved to his supporters before he got into a car that drove away. Police said the liquid appeared to be tomato juice. The alleged perpetrator, whose name was not released in line with German privacy rules,...
  • How did the Strait of Hormuz get its name? Here's the real origin story

    04/17/2026 12:52:16 PM PDT · by CondoleezzaProtege · 9 replies
    India Today ^ | Mar 2026 | Roshny Chakrabarty
    Long before modern geopolitics turned the strait into a global flashpoint, there was a thriving port city called Hormuz. It sat on the southern coast of present-day Iran and later moved to an island nearby for security reasons. Medieval travellers wrote about it with awe. Merchants from India, Persia and the Arab world docked there. It became one of the richest trading hubs in the region between the 13th and 16th centuries. The waterway gradually took the name of the port. In other words, the strait was named after the city, and not the other way around... Most historians trace...
  • The War is Over (bray)

    04/02/2026 5:20:05 AM PDT · by bray · 11 replies
    Forests4Oregon ^ | 4/2/26 | bray
    Genesis 12:1-3 King James Version 12 Now the Lord had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will shew thee: 2 And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing: 3 And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed. Once again Trump shows the world how to be bold and not...
  • Three pastoral perspectives from within Iran

    03/28/2026 10:32:58 PM PDT · by CondoleezzaProtege · 8 replies
    Christian Daily International ^ | Mar 28, 2026 | Dr Ronald MacMillan
    Pastor X - You don’t understand the extreme version of Shia Islam that is in charge here. It’s a death cult...It has many committed followers at a high level look up into the sky and say, “let the bomb come for me—its quick and paradise is waiting” ...These believers can welcome the absorption of great pain and loss of life for their cause. Pastor T. - The regime is structured a bit like the house church movement...It decentralized the lines of authority...There is no head to cut off.... Pastor I. - The government knows it has powerful allies like China...
  • Iranian citizens sending targeting data to Mossad, CIA

    03/13/2026 11:41:20 PM PDT · by EnderWiggin1970 · 44 replies
    X ^ | 3/13/26 | Nstrike
    Iranian citizens are reportedly sending large numbers of videos to the closed channels of Mossad and the CIA showing the locations of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and Basij forces. 🇮🇷 According to the reports, Basij punitive units are hiding under bridges in Tehran in an attempt to avoid U.S. and Israeli airstrikes.
  • "He commanded them to rebuild the Temple." ~ Julian the Apostate's spectacular failure to reconstruct the Temple in Jerusalem in AD 363

    03/13/2026 7:26:34 AM PDT · by Antoninus · 41 replies
    Gloria Romanorum ^ | March 13, 2026 | Florenitus
    Like clockwork, whenever there's a military conflict in the Middle East, articles begin popping up regarding the rebuilding of the Third Jewish Temple in Jerusalem. Some claim that construction is already secretly underway. Others maintain that the Temple can not be rebuilt except by the Messiah. The topic even came up at a White House press briefing last October when a reporter asked Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt if the topic of rebuilding the Temple had been brought up in Trump cabinet meetings. "It has not," Ms. Leavitt replied. "No it hasn't" Given that the Temple Mount is currently occupied by...
  • Remembering a CIA Coup in Iran That Never Was

    03/12/2026 2:52:24 AM PDT · by ScaniaBoy · 13 replies
    Tablet ^ | March 6, 2023 | Peter Theroux
    When anti-regime protests spread like wildfire throughout Iran in mid-October of 2022, the regime’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei was quick to lay the blame on the usual foreign suspects. “I say explicitly that these riots and this insecurity were a design by the U.S. and the occupying, fake Zionist regime and those who are paid by them,” he told a class of cadets at a police college in Tehran. He suggested that the ultimate goal of the U.S. and Israel was regime change in Iran. This elicited a response on Twitter from Iranian rapper Hichkas, who defended foreign support for...
  • Di Leo: Why Tariffs Are Not the Way to Effect Regime Change in Iran

    01/17/2026 11:28:57 AM PST · by jfd1776 · 4 replies
    Illinois Review ^ | January 16, AD 2026 | John F. Di Leo
    As part of his strategy for isolating the radical mullah-ruled government of Iran in the world community, President Trump has announced plans to issue a 25% tariff against all countries that continue to do business with the current Iranian regime. This is a counterproductive approach for three reasons. First, and most immediately, this kind of threat hurts the Administration’s case in defending its program of IEEPA tariffs, the country-by-country process of negotiating trade deals based on the “reciprocal tariff” approach that the President came up with in 2025. As revolutionary and unanticipated as that idea was, it has produced a...
  • IRGC Leaders Assassinated In Iran - Islamic Regime To ATTACK Israel

    01/11/2026 1:28:46 PM PST · by Eleutheria5 · 60 replies
    Mahyar Tousi TV ^ | 11/1/25 | Mahyar Tousi
    Senior IRGC leaders getting wacked. IRGC planning to preemptively attack Israel. Col. Imahdi Rahimi (gas leak;-) now admitted he was killed) Com. Reza Qasab (droned) Hundreds of leaders rubbed out (or defected? or fled?) Footage of mob beating IRGC man, taking weapons. Mossad has openly encouraged people to keep going, and assured that they are already active in the field. Pahlavi says to have universal general strike. And so on and so forth for 50 minutes of footage and narrating. Transcript linked below video.
  • As Iran protests continue, viral rumours flood the web, here are the main ones

    01/10/2026 2:01:09 PM PST · by nickcarraway · 9 replies
    Euronews ^ | Friday, January. 9, 2026
    Rumours invariably become one of the main sources of public unrest. The line between news and speculation can become blurred quickly, and social media can aid in the quick spread of false narratives. Euronews takes a look at some of the most viral rumours surrounding the Iranian protests. Rumours have been particularly widespread throughout the two weeks of mass protests across Iran. Many of those rumours originate from anonymous users on social media platforms, and are being covered by media outlets, purely for headline purposes. And although some of these rumours carry an element of truth, they should, at large,...
  • Internet, phone lines cut across Iran as thousands rally in Tehran; death toll at 45

    01/08/2026 2:01:54 PM PST · by Mr. Mojo · 24 replies
    Communications networks go dark right after start of Tehran protests urged on by exiled crown prince; protesters chant ‘death to the dictator’ and ‘death to the Islamic Republic’. Thousands of people in Iran’s capital shouted from their homes and rallied in the street Thursday night after a call by the country’s exiled crown prince for a mass demonstration, witnesses said, a new escalation in the protests that have spread nationwide across the Islamic Republic. Internet access and telephone lines in Iran cut out immediately after the protests began. The protest represented the first test of whether the Iranian public could...
  • Dawn of Unity: A Vision for a Free Iran and Israel

    01/03/2026 9:18:07 AM PST · by CondoleezzaProtege · 4 replies
    Times of Israel ^ | Sep 2025 | Fred Saberi
    Amid the shadows of ancient empires and modern turmoil, the story of Iran and Israel is one of profound paradox. Once bound by mutual respect and strategic alliance, their paths diverged dramatically with the rise of the Islamic Republic in 1979. Now, as winds of change sweep through Iran, whispers of hope for a brighter future emerge. This article explores the historical ties between Iran and Israel during the Pahlavi era, the bold steps taken by leaders like Prince Reza Pahlavi, and the exciting vision of a free Iran post-Islamic Republic—a free Iran that could stand as an unbreakable partner...
  • Christian “Resurrection” in Islamic Iran?

    12/31/2025 5:26:09 PM PST · by CondoleezzaProtege · 13 replies
    Hoover Institution ^ | Dec 9, 2025 | Abbas Milani
    Iranians begrudgingly accepted Islam but refused to accept Arabic as its supposedly divine language. Scholars have argued that it took almost four hundred years before Arabs conquered the entire Iranian empire. In those centuries of turmoil, Iranian Christians and Jews—like Zoroastrians who had been the dominant faith in the empire—were often subjected to the terrors of a local pious Muslim bully. By the fifteenth century, Shiism—one of the main branches of Islam—forcefully became the “state” religion of Iran, but even that did not altogether destroy Christian life in the country. Assyrians and Armenians continued to live in parts of the...
  • A superstitious regime, indifferent to drought

    11/13/2025 9:18:04 AM PST · by Eleutheria5 · 21 replies
    Arutz Sheva ^ | 13/11/25 | Negar Karamati
    n a land where rivers have run dry, lakes have vanished, and fertile soil has turned to dust, men in clerical robes still stand on pulpits without shame and declare: “Women’s unveiled hair causes drought!” This is not satire, nor the delirium of a lone village cleric. It reflects the mindset of a regime that has ruled Iran for forty-six years, a regime still incapable of understanding that the connection between clouds and rain is scientific, not moral or religious. From its inception, the Islamic Republic was built on ignorance and superstition. Today, it stands idle before the greatest environmental...
  • Castle of Anoush (Armenian Myth about Aryan-Persia)

    09/21/2025 1:13:39 PM PDT · by CharlesOConnell · 1 replies
    Librivox ^ | | Myth
    Librivox "Castle of Anoush" STORY https://ia804508.us.archive.org/13/items/mlaw09_2106_librivox/mlaw009_07_various_128kb.mp3 IMAGES https://tinyurl.com/bdekdtpn
  • Woke Professor Faces Consequences after Making Horrific Comment about Charlie Kirk’s Kids

    09/19/2025 11:28:42 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 63 replies
    American Tribune ^ | September 19, 2025 | Adam Stanton
    Callous woke activist and assistant anthropology professor at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tamar Shirinian, has been suspended with termination proceedings against her ongoing, for vile comments made about Charlie Kirk’s children in the wake of his gruesome assassination. For context, she slandered Kirk as a “disgusting psychopath,” argued that Kirk’s children would be “better off without him,” and made vile comments about his widow. In reaction, the university condemned her absurd comments and placed her on administrative leave while initiating firing proceedings. Additionally, prominent figures in both the university administration and state government slammed these comments as unacceptable. In...
  • How decline of Indian vultures led to 500,000 human deaths

    07/30/2024 10:48:19 AM PDT · by algore · 19 replies
    Once upon a time, the vulture was an abundant and ubiquitous bird in India. The scavenging birds hovered over sprawling landfills, looking for cattle carcasses. Sometimes they would alarm pilots by getting sucked into jet engines during airport take-offs. But more than two decades ago, India’s vultures began dying because of a drug used to treat sick cows. By the mid-1990s, the 50 million-strong vulture population had plummeted to near zero because of diclofenac, a cheap non-steroidal painkiller for cattle that is fatal to vultures. Birds that fed on carcasses of livestock treated with the drug suffered from kidney failure...
  • Finding The Remains Of 50,000 Persian Soldiers That Vanished In A Sandstorm | The Lost Army

    06/29/2024 9:29:58 PM PDT · by SunkenCiv · 27 replies
    YouTube ^ | June 12, 2024 | Real History
    In 524 BC, a force of 50,000 Persian soldiers travelled across the Western Desert of Egypt. Their intended target was The Oracle of Amun, however the army would not make it. They would instead disappear in a sandstorm, in a legend that still draws curiosity today.realhistory videosFinding The Remains Of 50,000 Persian Soldiers That Vanished In A Sandstorm | The Lost Army | 49:21Real History | 213K subscribers | 472,772 views | June 12, 2024
  • What to Know About Nowruz, a 3,000-Year-Old Festival Celebrated by Millions Worldwide

    03/19/2024 2:18:40 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 25 replies
    Time ^ | MARCH 19, 2024 | Koh Ewe
    Some 300 million people around the world are starting their annual celebration of renewal and harmony with nature in what is to them the biggest cultural holiday of the year, typically involving 13 days of rituals. Nowruz (alternatively spelled Nauruz, Nauryz, Navruz, Nevruz, Nooruz, Norooz, Norouz, or Novruz), also known as Persian New Year (Nowruz means “new day” in Persian), is celebrated across ethnic groups with a common Silk Roads heritage, including Afghanistan, India, Iran, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Pakistan, Tajikistan, and Turkey, as well as their diaspora in other countries. Watch more from TIME Click to Learn More AD pause volume_off...