Hi, Gary Stearman coming to you from the studios of Prophecy Watchers with a very good friend.

You know who he is and he comes here from time to time to share his wisdom with us.

It's Avi Lipkin. Avi, welcome to Prophecy Watchers.

Love you guys.

Love you, too. Now, when you come by, we learn things, the sort of behind the scenes news items

that are connected with Israel and hence connected with Bible prophecy. And so go ahead and kind of

fill us in on what's happening in Israel today, what's happening in your life, etc.

I want to talk a little bit about the history of Iran. Now today Iran is the great enemy of the United States and Israel

because they've been saying since 1979, death to America, death to Israel.

So America is faced, Israel is faced by, I would say, I take liberty of saying an

atomically powered enemy, stirring up trouble in Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Yemen, and of course

even in Israel, in Gaza, they're backed by the Iranians, Iraq. Now, just before 1979, Iran had a leader.

It's true. He was a dictator, the Shah of Iran. He was a dictator. There is no democracy in Islam.

There is none of this Republican and Democrat chit-chat about who's right and who's wrong.

There, when you are the leader of an Islamic country, you are a dictator, because if you're not a dictator,

you will fall from power, probably and be killed.

The Shah of Iran was America's best friend and Israel's best friend in the Islamic world. Yes, the Shah of Iran

was a Muslim. He was a Shiite Mosul. And Iran developed westernized, I would say westernized

means becoming more modern but it also means becoming more pro-Christian.

Science engineering, they were actually leaders in many ways. The Shah did a remarkable job.

He was the cornerstone of American policy in the Middle East during the Cold War. Actually,

the Iranian nuclear project started under the Shah.

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