“They (Iranian leadership) want a grand finale; they want one operation that cripples America once and for all...be it a dirty bomb, or a real nuke.” - Walid Shobat, Former Palestinian Terrorist

On April 1st, 1979, Iran became the first Islamic republic in history. Three decades later they are the largest state sponsor of Fundamentalist Islamic terrorism in the world, and we are rapidly approaching the most dangerous moment in the history of the Iranian Revolution.

Iran’s senior leaders have taught that the Revolution will soon reach its climax. They have stated publicly that the end of the world is “imminent.” They have taught that the way to hasten the arrival or appearance on earth of the Islamic messiah known as the “Twelfth Imam,” or the “Mahdi,” is to destroy the United States who they call the “Great Satan,” and to destroy Israel who they call the “Little Satan.” Iranian president Mahmouud Ahmadinejad has stated he has a “written contract” with the Islamic messiah.

Iranian leadership has vowed to annihilate the United States and Israel, and have urged Muslims to envision a world without America and Zionism. The key leaders in Iran are determined to accomplish their apocalyptic, genocidal mission. They are desperately attempting to build, buy, or steal nuclear weapons. Iran is actively testing advanced ballistic missiles capable of delivering nuclear warheads.

Iran has built alliances with Russia, China, and North Korea all nuclear armed powers. Russian Prime Minister (and former head of Russian Intelligence) Vladimir Putin is supporting Iran’s nuclear program by providing training, nuclear materials, and the S-300 surface to air anti-missile system.

Lt. General Jerry Boykin, U.S. Army (Ret.) the former commanding officer of the U.S. Army Delta Force believes the Iranians will “develop a nuclear weapon, a deliverable nuclear weapon” by 2011.

Iran’s leaders are building a network of thousands of suicide bombers ready to attack the United States. Venezuelan president, Hugo Chavez is supporting Iran by providing Iran with gas as well as allowing Iranian suicide bombers to train and stage in Venezuela. Once their training is completed, the suicide bombers are brought by ship to Mexico where they cross the border into the United States and remain as sleeper cells poised to attack targets within the U.S.

The apocalyptic politics in Iran stems from the failure of the Islamic republics initial vision. The 1979 Revolution was supposed to be an Islamic utopia, governed under Islamic law and a theocratic government. The Iranian government has not satisfied any portion of Iranian society, be it religious or secular. Iranian leadership’s cruelty against their own people is well documented:
• Iran has executed more than 120,000 of its citizens on political grounds since 1979, including pregnant women, elderly women, and school children.
• Iran massacred 30,000 political prisoners in 1988 alone.
• Iran’s secret police employ 170 forms of physical and psychological torture.
• The regime sends some 800,000 Iranians to prison every year.
• The regime employs stoning; public hangings; eye gouging; amputation of fingers, hands, and legs; beheading; and flogging in public as “punishment” for disobedience.
• Iran’s government has engaged in no fewer than 450 terrorist operations around the world, including bombings, hijacking, abductions, and assassinations.
• At least eighty newspapers and periodicals have been closed down by the regime since April 2000, dozens of Iranian journalists are in jail, and some have called Iran “the world’s biggest prison for journalists.”
• Iran has the highest suicide rate in the world (200 fatal suicide attempts for every 1000,000 people).
• Some 1,500 Iranians flee the country every day.

The United Nations cannot be viewed as a viable source of intervention as Iran advances toward its nuclear ambitions. The United Nations recently saw fit to elect Iran as part of the Commission on the Status of Women’s Rights, handing a four year seat on the influential human rights body to a theocratic state in which stoning is enshrined in law and lashings are required for women judged to be “immodest.”

Israeli, U.S., and other intelligence organizations continue to do an outstanding job in thwarting Iran’s nuclear ambitions. The Stuxnet computer virus that infected more than 30,000 Iranian computers has greatly hampered the Iranian enrichment of uranium. Also, the recent assassination of a top Iranian nuclear scientist has had an impact on Iran’s road to nuclear weapons. While this provides a temporary reprieve, the Iranian threat remains ever present.