Iran's Expanding Threat

Iran continues to expand its uranium enrichment program in defiance of the UN Security Council, now debating possible sanctions against it.

New intelligence reports say that within the past few weeks Iranian nuclear experts had started up a second pilot enrichment facility. Iran produced a small batch of low-enriched uranium in February, using its initial cascade of 164 centrifuges at its pilot plant at Natanz.

The process of uranium enrichment can be used to generate electricity or to create an atomic weapon, depending on the level of enrichment.

Iran said it plans to install 3,000 centrifuges at its enrichment plant in Natanz, central Iran, by the end of this year.

Industrial production of enriched uranium in Natanz would require 54,000 centrifuges. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announced this week that his country's nuclear capability has increased tenfold despite Western pressure to roll back its atomic program.

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Personal note: This certainly leads to the soon coming Gog-Magog battle prophesied in Ezekiel 38. Iran is ancient Persia & with her muslim allies & Russia which is Magog will invade Israel. But they will be utterly destroyed as prophesied & glory will be given to God. I am not sure when this war will occur but I think it could be close to the rapture either during or slightly afterwards. This is a fake Armageddon & the Antichrist will take this opportunity to maybe arrive in a UFO & claim to be Jesus Christ. Or he will come into the political scene & sign a seven yr peace treaty protecting Israel (false peace). This will then start the Great Tribulation & strong delusion.