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PostPosted: Mon Feb 06, 2023 3:58 pm 
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U.N. Says Iran has plenty of highly enriched uranium to build several nuclear weapons.


Building isn't the same as already having (AND already USING), dear HTBO (peace to you!) and, again, it isn't Iran that starts anything:

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How many countries have nuclear weapons and how many are there?

Nine countries - China, North Korea, France, India, Israel, Pakistan, Russia, the United Kingdom and the United States - possess a total of nearly 13,080 nuclear weapons. Russia and the United States possess roughly 90% of the world’s nuclear weapons, with over 5,500 weapons each.

https://www.icanw.org/how_many_countries_have_nuclear_weapons_and_how_many_are_there


Interesting info on the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) as to:

- Iran's (a nuclear-weapon FREE state) position as to the Treaty - https://icanw.org/iran

- The US's (which has 5,428 nuclear weapons) position as to the Treaty - https://icanw.org/united_states

- Israel's (which has 90 nuclear weapons) position on the Treaty - https://icanw.org/israel

- The UK's (which has 225 nuclear weapons) position on the Treaty - https://www.icanw.org/united_kingdom

- Russia's (which has 5,977 nuclear weapons) position on the Treaty - https://www.icanw.org/russia


As of 2023, the following countries have nukes (and in these amounts from most to least):

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Russia - 6,255 nuclear warheads
United States of America - 5,550 nuclear warheads
China - 350 nuclear warheads
France - 290 nuclear warheads
United Kingdom - 225 nuclear warheads
Pakistan - 165 nuclear warheads
India - 156 nuclear warheads
Israel - 90 nuclear warheads
North Korea - none, but material to build 40-50 nuclear warheads

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/countries-with-nuclear-weapons


Notice, Iran isn't even on that list, yet. The website states:


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"Nuclear weapons have been used during wartime on only two occasions, both by the United States[/i] toward the end of World War II."

Hiroshima and Little Boy
The first nuclear weapon used during war was a "uranium gun" fission bomb, codenamed "Little Boy", dropped from a Boeing B-29 Superfortress onto the city of Hiroshima, Japan, on August 6, 1945. The bomb exploded with a force estimated to be equivalent to 15,000 tons of TNT, killing an estimated 66,000-80,000 people (long-term effects such as radiation poisoning and bombing-induced leukemia would eventually raise this estimate to 90,000-140,000), injuring 69,000 more, and leveling 4.7 square miles of the city. Yet, despite the bomb's unprecedented destructive power—as well as a renewed declaration of war from the Soviet Union—the Japanese government vowed to fight on. This led the U.S. to plan a follow-up attack on a second target.

Nagasaki and Fat Man
On August 9, 1945, a mere three days after the nuclear weapon hit Hiroshima, U.S. bombers detonated a second nuclear weapon, this time a plutonium-core, implosion-type bomb codenamed "Fat Man", just above Nagasaki, Japan. Although clouds and smoke made aiming difficult and caused the bomb to detonate nearly two miles from its intended target, the blast nonetheless killed an estimated 35,000-40,000 people immediately (and roughly 60,000 injured), with long-term effects raising the death toll to 39,000-80,000 lives over time. Faced with the threat of continued bombings, Japan chose to surrender, ending World War II.

Nuclear weapons in the modern era
The use of nuclear weapons to end World War II sparked an arms race between the nations of the world, particularly the United States and the newly formed Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (U.S.S.R.), in which each country sought to manufacture and prepare as many nuclear weapons as possible. This nuclear proliferation reached its peak of approximately 70,000 missile-mounted nuclear warheads in 1986, then began to decline sharply with mutual disarmament agreements such as Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF) of 1987 and the Strategic Arms Reduction Talks that began in the '80s and continued off and on into the early '10s. As of 2021, there are estimated to be just over 13,000 available nuclear warheads in the world.

Profiles of the nine "nuclear nations"
Eight different nations around the world have successfully detonated nuclear weapons, and a ninth appears to have the capability to do so. The 1970 Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, otherwise known as the NPT, authorizes the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council—the United States, Russia, China, France, and the United Kingdom—to possess nuclear weapons on their territory with no need for justification or explanation.

Three additional states have conducted nuclear testing even though they did not sign the NPT: North Korea, India, and Pakistan. Of these three, North Korea's nuclear capability is most notable because the country appears to be violating United Nations resolutions that prohibit North Korea from developing nukes or ballistic missiles. The Middle Eastern country of Israel, known as the Holy Land to many Christians, Muslims, and Jews, is not known to have ever tested nuclear weapons but is known to possess them just the same. Israel’s government refuses to confirm or deny the country's nuclear capabilities.


They're afraid Iran will build a nuke. Because they're afraid Iran will detonate a nuke. Yet, they conduct joint exercises very close to and drone airstrikes directly on Iranian soil.

Someone tell me, please, what the US' and Israel's reactions would be if Iran conducted joint exercises with Russia very close to AND drone airstrikes directly on US and/or Israeli soil?

Beware the leaven... and the reformed whore.

Peace to you all and to your dear households!

Your servant, sister, and a slave of Christ,

Shel


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PostPosted: Thu Feb 09, 2023 4:21 pm 
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OMG! Please see . . . .

https://share.newsbreak.com/30qa42re


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A little better link, perhaps, dear Armand (peace to you, dear brother!)?

https://www.jewishpress.com/news/middle-east/iran-news/irans-hebrew-language-message-to-israel/2023/02/09/


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PostPosted: Thu Feb 09, 2023 4:34 pm 
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Yes, thank you!


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Here's another article regarding this same news: https://www.timesofisrael.com/iran-disp ... in-hebrew/


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“Iran claims Israel was responsible for the attack and has vowed revenge. The attack targeted a factory that produced and stockpiled Iranian ballistic missiles.”

Yikes!!! And here we are reminded again that it will be a response/revenge not a preemptive first strike.

A “Legitimate and inherent right” to retaliate.

Thank you both for the sharing (peace to you my brother and sister) and May JAH and Christ continue to bless you and your entire households.

Love your sister, fellow servant and slave of Christ,
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 09, 2023 5:56 pm 
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https://www.timesofisrael.com/iran-disp ... in-hebrew/

Can anyone see what is painted on the jet of the cockpit in that photo in the above link? Just curious. It looks like a white face of some sort.


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Peace to you all, and thank you for posting the articles!

C&D, I tried to get a look at that image as well when I first saw it as well, but I couldn't quite make it out.



Peace again to you all,
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Here is a more clear picture on the other side (if the image works), though I'm still not sure exactly what it is. It is a face, but not a human face.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/pauliddon/ ... c8156e6bc2


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Yeah looks like an animals head.


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a modern Iranian lion's head, perhaps?

Peace to you ALL and to your dear households!

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Again, peace to you all (and particularly you, dear brothers and sisters, Armand, Kim, Tams, C&D, and HBTO!).

I can't see where this (shared with me by dear Armand) has been shared already (and, if so, my apologies for the redundancy):

https://www.jewishpress.com/news/middle-east/iran-news/iranian-army-chief-any-country-that-attacks-us-will-be-hit-along-with-israel/2023/02/09/

It is my SINCERE wish that all of you AND all in your dear households are able to stay awake as long as possible but, if not, have enough "oil" in your lamps so as to "see" when the time for doing so arrives. Remember, ALL of the virgins fell asleep, but five (half) didn't do so with enough oil in their lamps and so missed the arrival of the Bridegroom.

My point? It's all good and well to know what may be coming. Knowing, though, won't be enough. The people of Noah's day saw the rain. By the time they did, however, it was too late - Noah and his household were ALREADY in the Ark the doors of which had been locked by JaH Himself. It's not enough because although one might know... one might (1) not be demonstrating that knowledge AND so their faith in JaH and Christ, or, worse (2) be otherwise occupied (i.e., after being sent off to buy more oil) and so miss the opportunity and have the door shut on them.

While entire households may have been saved due to one family member's [initial] faith (i.e., Noah, Abraham, Rahab, Cornelius), those in everyone of those household who WERE saved demonstrated THEIR OWN... faith by listening to and cooperating with what that initial faithful person told them THEY had been told to do. Hence, Noah's wife, sons, and daughters-in-law helped Noah, went along with him, when they, too, could have dismissed him. Isaac did not question Abraham, but voluntarily went along with the proposed course of being a human sacrifice. Because, as he said, he knew ABRAHAM wouldn't mislead him.

Rahab's family apparently listened to her because they not only helped her hide the Israelite spies (any one of them could have revealed where they were), but didn't deter her when she hung the cord from the window ("What you are DOING, Rahab?! A red cord hanging out the window? How is THAT supposed to help?").

And Cornelius' family and friends gathered WITH Cornelius and underwent water baptism after receiving holy spirit, both of which any of them COULD have said, "Yeah, no, I'm good!" and went away.

[NOTE: I am not saying, in any way, size, shape, or form, that everyone needs to get water baptized, as you may already know - water baptism is/was for the descendants of Israel ONLY, Jew and Samaritan, due to the vow of adherence to the Law Covenant their ancestors took at Sinai. NON-Israelite descendants only need to be baptized by fire (holy spirit). This is because they were never under the Law Covenant - their ancestors took no such vow - and so these don't need to "die" as to that code (for which Moses was "husband") so as to be set free and able to come under a new code (for which Christ is the "husband", the New (Law) Covenant. Those who adhere to Moses (and particularly, Israelites), who still claim a "union" with him... while claiming to belong to Christ and be in "union" with him... are committing spiritual "adultery." It does not hurt to get water baptized if one is NOT an Israelite descendant, but it not necessary and no one should try and compel any non-Israelite descendant to do so but not stand in their way if they want to. End of digression.]

I am also not intimating that anyone should listen to ME. You all know that I have stated the truth time and time... and time... again: I am not your/anyone's leader, but only everyone's servant. And I share as such is given me to do so. So, I am sharing with you all now: consider whether you truly ARE awake... or, in truth, are actually asleep and only dreaming that you are awake. And if the TRUTH is that you are asleep... or are falling asleep (because ALL of the virgins call asleep!)... consider (re)checking your oil supply. And consider helping those of your household check THEIR oil supplies.

Don't put JaH and Christ to the test by just assuming that because YOU (think you) are "covered", everyone you love is covered. True, their love would NOT call for us to lose those WE love. But OUR love for JaH and Christ wouldn't... shouldn't... cause us to put on THEM what we aren't willing to carry ourselves: helping those we LOVE come to know and be in union with them. Because they may not only prove detrimental to that loved one, but to us and, by connection, OUR entire households.

It's not easy, no. But we're talking about being granted eternal life. It SHOULDN'T be easy. Yet, it is nowhere near as difficult as just navigating THIS life, at least for most of us.

Just a reminder so that none of us mislead ourselves, let alone any others.

May the undeserved kindness and mercy of my God and Father, JaH, Who Breathes, and the love and mercy of His dear Son, my dear, dear Lord, Master, Savior, Teacher, Instructor, Guide, Redeemer, Shepherd, Leader, and King, HIS Way, Truth, Life, Light, Lamp, Lamb, Wisdom, and Word, HIS King... be upon you all and upon your dear households, to time indefinite!

PRAISE JaH, you people! And kiss His Son!

Your servant, sister, and a slave of Christ,

Shel


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I thought it was a lions head by what I saw.


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Where would one go to get baptized by water? Certainly not a Kingdom Hall or Church for that matter.


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Can anyone see what is painted on the jet of the cockpit in that photo in the above link? Just curious. It looks like a white face of some sort....C&D

That`s One Mean Looking Chicken!

It`s a Popeye's "Spicy Chicken" Advertisement...
That helps Pay for the Iranian Air Force.
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