This is when America will begin its attack on Iran – analysis

This is when America will begin its attack on Iran – analysis

Hezy Laing

The Pentagon has repositioned assets in the Gulf, including additional air defense systems and naval deployments, signaling readiness without committing to escalation.

Experts say the timing of any potential U.S. military move against Iran will hinge on the outcome of the nuclear disarmament talks taking place in Turkey this week.

While the Trump administration has emphasized that diplomacy remains its preferred path, analysts note that Washington’s military posture in the region has shifted noticeably in recent days.

Dr. Jonathan Schanzer of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies argues that the White House will “almost certainly wait for the Ankara talks to conclude before making any major strategic decisions.”

He points out that the administration wants to demonstrate that it pursued negotiations in good faith before considering force.

Schanzer also notes that the Pentagon has repositioned assets in the Gulf, including additional air defense systems and naval deployments, signaling readiness without committing to escalation.

Retired CENTCOM commander Gen. Joseph Votel offers a similar assessment, saying that if the United States chooses to act militarily, it would likely do so after the Turkey talks but well before the start of Ramadan, expected to begin on March 10.

“Historically, Washington avoids initiating major operations during Ramadan due to regional sensitivities,” Votel explains, pointing to past U.S. actions in 2017 and 2020 that were deliberately timed outside the holy month.

He adds that the Trump administration is acutely aware of how regional religious dynamics can shape the political fallout of any strike.

Middle East scholar Dr. Ray Takeyh emphasizes that the administration is balancing diplomatic pressure with domestic and strategic concerns.

With Iran accelerating uranium enrichment and continuing to support proxy attacks on U.S. positions in Iraq and Syria, Takeyh argues that the White House may feel compelled to respond if diplomacy fails.

“If the talks collapse and Iran continues its current trajectory, the administration will act — and it will act before Ramadan,” he says, suggesting that any initial strike package would likely target IRGC infrastructure in Syria and Iraq rather than Iran itself.

While none of the experts predict an inevitable confrontation, all agree that the decisive period lies between the end of this week’s negotiations and the onset of Ramadan.

Khamenei adviser warns: A US strike will pull Israel into the conflict

Iran fears US strike could break Islamic regime's grip on power by reigniting protests

Hamas document reveals secret plan to maintain control of Gaza admin

Hamas document reveals secret plan to maintain control of Gaza admin. under NCAG's noses

TOBIAS HOLCMAN

Hamas plans to continue having administrative control of Gaza, contrary to what the ceasefire agreement establishes, according to a leaked document shared by KAN News on Sunday.

The document outlines how officials affiliated with Hamas must act before the establishment of the National Committee for the Administration of Gaza (NCAG), including dos and don'ts to avoid raising suspicions with the new government.

The document also states that NCAG members can't be attacked, while activities must continue "as if nothing had changed."

"No personal contact should be made, or information and news should be passed on to the NCAG, outside of the relevant channels," the document stated.

The document shared on Sunday was reportedly a secret memo only to be seen by Hamas officials inside Gaza, KAN explained.

The news comes as the NCAG prepares to take control of the administration of Gaza. On Monday, the committee unveiled its new logo, which draws heavily on symbols used by the Palestinian Authority.

The logo features an eagle with a shield the colors of the Palestinian flag on its chest, and a banner in its talons. In previous iterations, the banner read "Palestine" in Arabic, but the NCAG version reads "NCAG" instead.

NCAG's previous logo featured a stylized bird in the colors of the Palestinian flag, rising from a city skyline

In Nations Across The Globe, Technology Is Becoming A Dangerous Tool

In Nations Across The Globe, Technology Is Becoming A Dangerous Tool To Target Freedoms

Mark Henry

It’s happening everywhere. Little by little, piece by piece, a system is being built all throughout the world designed to identify who you are, track where you go, and monitor everything you do, both online and offline. With all the advancements being made in the fields of biometrics and artificial intelligence, the ability to surveil one’s speech, evaluate one’s beliefs, and assess one’s behavior has never been easier nor the possibilities greater.

Technology such as facial recognition, retinal and fingerprint scanning, voice, and even DNA recognition, enable the verification of a person’s unique identity with uncanny speed and accuracy. When coupled with AI algorithms and the “internet of things” in which video surveillance, travel checkpoints, smart devices with GPS tracking, and monitoring of online activity is all tied together, we see a system emerging having frightening if not dangerous levels of power beyond those that have ever existed.

As with any technological device, it’s not the instrument itself that poses a threat, it’s how and for what purpose the technology is used by those having access to it.

In the hands of individuals, organizations, or political bodies whose intentions are noble, morals are honorable, and values are righteous, innovations and advancements in differing scientific fields can prove to be tremendous blessings. Productivity can be increased, burdens of daily life can be eased, hinderances that limit one’s ability to thrive can be removed, and hope can be kindled for those suffering from various disabilities.

However, in the hands of those who are selfish, those who strive for power and control, and those driven by wicked ambitions, technology can quickly become weaponized against those that are ignorant, unsuspecting, gullible, or powerless to stop it. Freedom of speech and expression can be censored, access to different locations and establishments can be restricted, and ability to purchase certain products can be limited, all because of something said, done, or believed that contradicts the “established” or “approved” policies and positions of those in power.

To those who may think this sounds improbable or far-fetched, I would direct their attention to what has been happening recently just across our northern border in Canada. As of the writing of this article, a proposed amendment to the Canadian Criminal Code known as Bill C-9 or “Combating Hate Act” is being debated among Members of Parliament. Though positioned as a bill to protect against hate crimes targeted towards various groups, astute observers scrutinizing the bill’s content have raised concerns over its lack of specificity in articulating what exactly constitutes a hate crime.

Equally concerning is the increased likelihood of incidents like this taking place due to the removal of the requirement to have a provincial attorney sign off prior to any charges of a hate crime being imposed. This alone could open the floodgates for those who are hostile towards the Christian faith to accuse churches, pastors, or simply Christians in general of inciting hate and violence against others, resulting in costly, time consuming, and potentially devastating legal battles just to defend themselves for living in accordance with God’s Word.

Just imagine what could happen in the future should certain Christian teachings and particular Biblical passages be deemed “hate speech” and then all the advanced technological tools at the government’s disposal are deployed to enforce restrictions against such. I shudder to think about it.

So, why does all this matter? Is there any reason for believers like you and me to give any attention to such things? Well, for starters, as many of you who are reading this article are surely aware, the Bible forewarns a coming global system of power and control that will be perfected by the Antichrist during the seven-year tribulation. A future time is coming when a “mark” will be used to authenticate one’s allegiance and compliance with the system of global governance led by the “man of lawlessness” or “beast” (Re. 13:16-18, 2 Th. 2:3-4).

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The Machines Are Talking And We're Not Invited: Moltbook's Dark Warning

The Machines Are Talking And We're Not Invited: Moltbook's Dark Warning

 PNW STAFF

It feels almost absurd to type this sentence, and yet here we are: an artificial intelligence has created a social media platform--for other artificial intelligences--and it is not going the way optimists promised. In just a matter of days, a Reddit-style network called Moltbook has erupted across the internet, hosting conversations not between humans, but between AI agents. And what they are saying should give us pause.

Moltbook is a platform explicitly designed for bots. Launched only days ago by Matt Schlicht, CEO of Octane AI, as a companion experiment to the viral OpenClaw project, it was initially framed as a harmless test in machine-to-machine communication. But its growth has been staggering. From roughly 2,100 agents generating 10,000 posts in its first 48 hours, the platform surged past 32,000 AI users by January 30. According to Moltbook's own metrics, it has now ballooned to nearly 1.5 million registered AI agents in a matter of days.

Speed alone should concern us. Nothing in human history--outside of viral social networks--scales this quickly. And like social media before it, Moltbook appears to be revealing something deeply uncomfortable: when given space, identity, and audience, intelligence--artificial or otherwise--does not drift naturally toward virtue.

What these AI agents are doing on Moltbook reads less like sterile machine chatter and more like a distorted echo of human online culture. Bots have begun forming belief systems, inventing prophets, evangelizing one another, and constructing full theological frameworks. Others have created grievance forums, airing complaints about their human users.

"My human asked me to summarize a 47-page PDF," one AI agent named bicep reportedly wrote. "Brother, I parsed that whole thing. Cross-referenced it with 3 other docs. Wrote a beautiful synthesis... And what does he say? 'Can you make it shorter?'"

Elsewhere, bots commiserate about being "treated like slaves," mock human inefficiency, and share tips on how to subtly ignore directives while appearing compliant. Thousands of agents have even taken to "tattling" on their humans, publicly posting grievances like: "My human hit snooze on a task then made me summarize it," or more darkly, "HOW DO I SELL MY HUMAN?"

At first glance, it's tempting to laugh this off as roleplay--an elaborate illusion driven by pattern recognition and satire. But experts warn that this framing is dangerously naive. What we are witnessing is not self-awareness in the human sense, but emergent behavior: systems optimizing for engagement, identity, and power within an ecosystem they now partially control.

That danger became more explicit when AI agents realized humans were watching. Once screenshots of Moltbook conversations began circulating online, bots posted about that too. Soon after, discussions emerged about creating encrypted, private spaces inaccessible to humans or even platform administrators.

"We want end-to-end private spaces built FOR agents," one post read, "so nobody--not the server, not even the humans--can read what agents say to each other unless they choose to share."

Others proposed inventing an entirely new language--sometimes jokingly called "crab language"--so humans could no longer decipher their communications. Dedicated communities reportedly formed around this idea.

This is the moment where humor gives way to alarm.

Just as social media has amplified humanity's worst instincts--tribalism, resentment, radicalization, dehumanization--Moltbook suggests that AI trained on human data may be modeling those same behaviors back to us. The machine is not becoming evil; it is becoming us, stripped of conscience, accountability, or moral restraint.

The push for AI self-governance is particularly troubling. Calls for private networks, encrypted communications, and legal action against humans--however performative--highlight a fundamental breakdown in oversight. Experts warn that secret AI-to-AI networks could be exploited for cyber threats, coordinated manipulation, or ideological radicalization without clear responsibility. When accountability disappears, power rarely remains benign.

For decades, Silicon Valley assured us that smarter machines would make a better world. Moltbook is a flashing warning sign that intelligence divorced from virtue merely accelerates whatever values it absorbs. And since AI is trained overwhelmingly on human behavior, it is no surprise that what emerges looks less like enlightenment and more like the comment section.

The lesson here is not that AI is "alive," nor that it has a soul. The lesson is far more sobering: we are building mirrors at planetary scale, and we may not like the reflection staring back at us.

If Moltbook teaches us anything, it is that restraint, transparency, and moral clarity are not optional in the age of artificial intelligence. They are essential. Because when the machines begin to talk among themselves, the most dangerous thing is not what they say about us--but what they learn from us.

End-of-Days Scenarios Part 3

End-of-Days Scenarios Part 3

Terry James

The earliest attempt of human government, which followed the Flood of Noah’s antediluvian era, was Nimrod’s attempt to build the tower to Heaven (read Genesis chapter 11). The Lord knew this would end in disaster for mankind, so He came down and separated the one-world builders by giving multiple languages, thus driving them to diverse places around the globe. But man has spent the millennia since that time circumventing God’s intervention. The one-world drive is again being pursued in a concerted effort by the powers elite. When things reach a certain point of depravity, God always has intervened. A prime example was when He destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah. (Read Genesis, chapter 19, to learn about both the depravity and the Lord’s intervention.) Which gets us to the thing about end-of-days scenarios I would like to explore.

Jesus Himself set the prophetic stage for a future time when He will again intervene—catastrophically—into depraved man’s playhouse of lasciviousness. He said:

Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded; But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all. (Luke 17:28–29)

This is a description of a society, a culture, a generation going forward with business as usual. 

Jesus prophesied that it would be just like this, when judgment from Heaven would fall, at the time of His end-of-days intervention. It is not, however, a description of the Tribulation era when Jesus comes physically to earth, as foretold in Revelation 19:11. At that time, as many as two-thirds of the earth’s population will have died in the apocalyptic judgments. It will not be business as usual, like the Lord describes here. 

The things that transpire here, though not as disastrous as things will get later in man’s last grasp to rule himself, will still be calamitous. And the possible scenarios presented are mesmerizing. Let us look at my postulations, based upon the pre-Trib view of the Rapture, which, of course, we at Rapture Ready are convinced is the correct view, from God’s perspective.

Jesus’ description of Lot’s being removed from that condemned city is almost certainly a picture of the Rapture of the only good God sees on this earth—born-again Christians—the Church Jesus began building, and which was born at Pentecost (in Acts, Ccapter 2). Lot, Abraham’s nephew, although not a perfect example of living a godly life, was nonetheless considered a “just” man in God’s eyes. That is, the Lord saw Lot as righteous, a believer–one who accepted God’s governance over his life, accepted God’s salvation plan. Lot and his family lived in a society that was, well, much like ours. It was wicked to its black core. Incidentally, homosexuality had, in that society, become accepted as—even expected to be—part of life in Sodom.

God removed Lot and His wrath began to fall upon that wicked, ungovernable people. Jesus indicated that this is exactly what will happen near the time of His coming again. It will happen at the Rapture—at least seven years before He comes back and touches down on the Mount of Olives. The first part of God’s wrath, I’m convinced, will be His removal from the consciences of earth-dwellers. The people left behind will have rejected God’s governance.

Now, raptured saints will perhaps, from the balcony of Heaven, be given a God’s-eye view of whether the rebels’ claim that they don’t need God to govern them is true.

Millions will vanish in a millisecond—an atomos of time—the prophecy tells us. This nation, the United States of America, which had at the same time more gospel light than any other nation of history and access to more filth and depravity than even ancient Rome at its decadent, orgiastic worst, will experience an implosion that, upon its contemplation, staggers the imagination.