What happened in Gaza on the evening of 17 October, when the Al-Ahli hospital was destroyed in a bombing raid, killing, according to some estimates, more than 800 civilians, including children and women, suggests that the moderators of the new Middle East war have finally set their sights on organising a "great massacre" in the Middle East. If the main goal of such almost satanic human sacrifices really is a "big war" or a "big massacre", then some "peculiarities" in the geopolitics of the Middle East in the past years and decades begin to become clear.

For example, almost all Western media have amicably named Iran as hardly the "main culprit" in the Hamas raid of 7 October 2023, which led to the current bloody events. Although, as we know, Hamas has no connection whatsoever with Iran and shares nothing but a common hatred of Israel with the same Iranian proxies, Hezbollah. But every 10 days between 7 and 17 October, Iran was expected to enter the war "for Gaza". Then Iran would have been immediately exposed as a "defender of terrorists", but Iran did not go to the conflict.

Now, after the horrific casualties at Gaza's Al-Ahli hospital, it is Iran that has the world's attention. And all those hapless Palestinians who look to Iran as the "last defender" of Gaza's decimated civilian population. "When will Iran stand up for the Palestinians?" - is the leitmotif of the expectations of all the forces outraged by Israel's actions.

Meanwhile, the Islamic Republic of Iran clearly does not want to go to war with Israel. Because it is obvious that the USA will enter the war on the side of Israel.  If Iran wanted to go to war with Israel, there would have been some kind of "response" to the Israeli strikes on Iranian territory and Iranian military bases on the night of 28-29 January 2023, about which "Kavkazplus" has already written in the article "Strikes on Iran's military infrastructure break the separatists' play with "humanitarian disaster of Artsakh"". (https://kavkazplus.com/news.php?id=39045 ).

Despite their proclaimed 'hatred of Israel' and 'defence of Palestinian Muslims', the authorities in Tehran do not care about Palestinians any more than they care about other Muslims. Otherwise, they would not have turned a blind eye for so many decades to the fact that the "friendly" regime in Yerevan carried out ethnic cleansing and expelled over 200,000 Muslim Azerbaijanis from Armenia and over 1 million Muslims from the occupied territory of Karabakh and the surrounding regions.

But the paradox is that certain forces have "signed up" Iran in advance as a "defender of the Palestinians", regardless of how indifferent Tehran really is to their fate. And they will not let it "slip" from this role, no matter how much it does not want to.

If we analyse the history of Iran in recent decades and its policies from today's point of view, we can come to a seemingly paradoxical conclusion - certain global forces have been deliberately "nurturing", preparing and "promoting" today's theocratic Iran for many decades in order to eventually push it into a large-scale "battle of the end" with Israel. Just as Hitler was deliberately  "nurtured" and armed in the 20th century to then "push" him into a "clash" with the USSR, and even allowed Hitler to "tear down the buffer" in the form of Poland.  Although the USSR tried to avoid this war as much as possible.

Judge for yourself: until 1979, the Shah's Iran did not even think of standing up for the Palestinians (already oppressed and dispossessed of their land), nor of antagonising Israel. But in 1979, the Islamic revolution was organised and Ayatollah Khomeini was flown from Paris to Tehran. One of the main "points" of his geopolitical programme was the destruction of Israel and the liberation of Palestine.

But there is no common border between Iran and Israel. There are at least two other countries between them - Iraq and Syria. They are also hostile to Israel, but no one imagined in 1979 that they would unite against Israel.

Moreover, certain forces organised a bloody massacre between Iran and Iraq for 8 years (1980-1988), which cost both sides a total of more than 1 million lives and set them back in their economic and technological development.

What follows is more. The USA and the West "massacre" Iraq, fresh from the war with Iran, and finally occupy it. But then they withdraw from Iraq and, through the civil war organised in the country, in fact "hand it over" to Iran and its Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).

The same West organises a civil war in Syria, but agrees to Russian and Iranian intervention on the side of the Assad regime. This gives Iran and the IRGC a direct "land corridor" through Iraq and Syria to the Mediterranean and the border with Israel (where its "advanced group" - Hezbollah - is based in southern Lebanon).

In 2022-2023, the Russian Federation's aggression against Ukraine "cemented" and "bound in blood" the alliance between Iran and Russia, which seemed unrealistic during the Soviet era. Without Iranian drones, Russia's attacks on Ukraine would not have been effective.  And now many international analysts are literally "tying" the Kremlin leadership (which includes many Jews) to Iran and its imminent war with Israel.

In other words, step by step, Iran has become a "Middle East monster" and a "new empire" that has almost subordinated the remnants of the Russian empire to its interests. Iran has been "brought closer" to Israel, having removed "superfluous" borders and barriers between them. ..... Or has Iran been "led to the slaughter"?

Unfortunately, the latter is very likely. Moreover, the plan for this slaughter is very well described. World events are now beginning to unfold dramatically "almost exactly" according to the well-known Bible prophecy of Ezekiel. Chapter 38 of the book of Ezekiel speaks of the great battle of the end times, and it is the Persians who are listed as Israel's main enemies:

 "And the word of the Lord came to me:

"Son of Man, set your face against Gog in the land of Magog, prince of Rosh, Meshech and Tubal, and prophesy against him.

Say, 'Thus says the Lord God: 'Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, prince of Rosh, Meshech and Tubal.

And I will turn thee, and I will put a bridle upon thy jaws, and I will bring thee and all thy army out, horses and horsemen, all in full armour, a great host, in armour and with shields, all armed with swords,

Persians, Ethiopians and Libyans with them, all with shields and helmets,

Gomer with all his forces, the house of Fogarm from the borders of the north with all his forces, many nations with you.

Prepare and equip yourself, you and all the hordes that are gathered to you, and be their leader.

After so many days thou shalt be needed; in the latter years thou shalt come into a land redeemed from the sword, gathered out of many nations, into the mountains of Israel, which have always been desolate, but now their inhabitants shall be brought back from the nations, and they shall all dwell safely...".

Many Bible commentators explicitly say that the prophecy speaks of a war against Israel by Russia (Rosh) and Iran. Especially since it is specifically mentioned that the Persians will come against Israel. And even "the house of Fogarmah, from the borders of the north" can be identified with the North Caucasians, since Forgamah (Torgamos) is considered to be the ancestor of the Caucasian peoples.

Of course, it is quite possible that the coincidences of ancient prophecies with modern geopolitical arrangements are "accidental". But it is no "coincidence" that in the same Israel preparations are being made for th e construction of the Third Temple on the site of the Al-Aqsa Mosque and for the "meeting of Moshiach" which, according to all the prophecies, should take place at the end of time. And the most important thing is that Iran is being pushed into this "last world war".

George Mazniashvili