I decided to create a timeline of the greatest deception operation in history, otherwise known as the Iranian nuclear deal. Both the Saudis and Israelis have stated in plain language that they’ll use military force to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons, and by now the Iranians know that the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) is a complete farce. The JCPOA is like the reporting from Gaza and Yemen: It’s a ritual that nobody believes but that everybody pretends is real.
The reason I’m writing about this is that both Israel and Saudi Arabia have sent several clear signals to Iran, in an attempt to avoid war. This post is my own pre-doomed effort to convince the mullahs to voluntarily relinquish power and avoid the unimaginable calamity that they’re about to bring down on their own heads.
Timeline of history’s greatest deception operation
May 19, 2009 – Jordan opened the King Abdullah Special Operation Training Center (KASOTC), designed to train Jordanian and international military and police forces in counter-terrorism, special operations, and unconventional warfare.
2011 – The United Arab Emirates created the Presidential Guard, an assault unit comprised of troops from all branches of service. The UAE Presidential Guard was formed in part by the US Marine Corps and was trained for several years by conventional and unconventional forces from most industrialized nations. Equipped with helicopter gunships and light armored vehicles, the Presidential Guard also has naval capabilities to carry out its anti-piracy role.
2012 – Saudi Arabia opened the Airborne School and Special Warfare Training Center in King Abdulaziz Military City, Tabuk. The Airborne Brigade had previously included three Special Forces companies; the new school is part of the kingdom’s plan to greatly expand its capabilities in unconventional warfare.
The same year, Saudi Arabia “urgently” requested that India help establish what became the King Salman Center for Mountain Warfare in Taif. The Indian army trained the Saudis extensively in counterinsurgency and mountain warfare.
November 24, 2013 – The P5+1 nations (the US, the UK, France, China, Russia, and Germany) and the European Union signed the Joint Plan of Action with Iran, an interim agreement in which Iran received sanction relief in exchange for stopping some of its nuclear program. Negotiations continue.
March 2014 – Egypt created the Rapid Deployment Forces (RDF) based on the UAE Presidential Guard. After three training exercises with the UAE, the RDF was deployed to the Sinai Peninsula to engage Islamic State affiliates.
The UAE continues its training of the Egyptian RDF, and it’s almost certain that the unit attended the Saudi Airborne School and Special Warfare Training Center in King Abdulaziz Military City. More heavily armed than Saudi or Emirati unconventional assault units, the RDF is equipped with tanks, jet fighters, helicopter gunships, and artillery.
September 6, 2014 – The IDF announced that it was training for “a very violent war” with Hezbollah. This conflict would bear no resemblance to the Gaza war. Instead, the IDF would hit Hezbollah extremely hard and quickly in order to neutralize the threat of 130,000 rockets and missiles.
February 12, 2015 – Al-Qaeda took over a Yemeni military base in Shabwa, Yemen. The terrorists seized large amounts of heavy weapons.
February 21, 2015 – A video taken in Iraqi Kurdistan shows two foreign special operators advising the Peshmerga. They were the only ones wearing ear protection and microphones, and their rifles were on single-point slings, a hallmark of operators. The man on the left had an Egyptian uniform, while the one on the right was dressed in regulation IDF clothing. His keffiyeh was blue and white.
March 19, 2015 – The Iran-backed Houthi militias of Yemen began a massive offensive against the government of Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, carrying out long-range assaults by motorized ground transport and helicopter. The Houthis and government-loyal troops also clashed with al-Qaeda and the Islamic State, both of which control large parts of Yemen. On March 26, Hadi fled Yemen to Saudi Arabia.
Only Crater and Little Aden remained in control of government-loyal troops, the Southern Resistance, and armed civilians.
March 19, 2015 – Saudia Arabia and Pakistan began military exercise Al-Samsam 5 in Saudi Arabia.
March 26, 2015 – Saudi Arabia—leading a coalition that included the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, Egypt, Jordan, Morocco, and Senegal—began Operation Decisive Storm. Saudi and Egyptian naval vessels provided fire support for Crater and Little Aden, while Coalition jet fighters carried out air strikes. The pro-Hadi forces were resupplied by sea and by air drops.
March 28, 2015 – The Coalition bombed a military base after the Houthis set up long-range intercontinental ballistic missiles aimed at Aden and unspecified countries in the Middle East. Iranian experts had arrived to work on the missiles.
April 1, 2015 – Pakistan announced that it had sent 800 troops to Saudi Arabia, but none were from the combat arms. In reality the troops were engineer commandos, special operators trained in stealth and how to blow up everything they encounter.
They underwent over a month of training in mountain and urban warfare, as well as long-range incursions via motorized transport.
April 1 to April 10, 2015 – The Azerbaijan Air Force took part in its first-ever multilateral combat search and rescue (CSAR) exercise.
Azerbaijan is training to rescue downed pilots while under fire.
April 1, 2015 – The Arab League announced the formation of a Rapid Reaction Force of 40,000 men. Comprised mainly of Egyptians, Saudis, and Moroccans, it’ll be based in Egypt and have an air command, a naval command, and a land operations command. The land forces will include a special-operations command, a rapid reaction force, and a rescue operations command. These three advanced units will be provided by Morocco, Jordan, and the UAE.
April 20, 2015 – A gigantic explosion took place at a military base near Faj Attan, in the Yemeni capital of Sana’a.
The explosion was so powerful that the shock wave broke the camera and knocked down the man holding it even though he was 1.5 miles (2.4 kilometers) away. This was a primary explosion, meaning that the fireball and smoke-debris towers—which reached 2000 feet (610 meters) in height—were created by the weapon itself. No known munition is capable of such a blast.
It appears that the bomb was a hypersonic, rocket-powered bunker buster with a thermobaric explosive, the high-velocity penetrating weapon (HVPW).
It’s clear that the explosion was a demonstration, since it was filmed by no less than seven cameras pointed at precisely the right place. All the cameramen had advance notice. Also, the date of April 20 is Adolf Hitler’s birthday, a message to Iran. Israel most likely developed the HVPW using Saudi, Emirati, and Omani funding. The HVPW was almost certainly dropped by a newly developed, secret strategic bomber. More on that later.
April 20 to April 30, 2015 – The Israeli Air Force trained in how to defeat the Russian S-300 surface-to-air missile. Russia had sold the weapon to Greece, and the Greeks allowed the Israelis to use the exercise INIOXOS-2015 to work out ways to overcome this missile, which is being supplied to Iran.
May 2, 2015 – Pakistan announced that it had turned down a Saudi request for troops to fight in Yemen. However, the Pakistani engineer commandos remained in Saudi Arabia.
Now the Pakistanis said that the soldiers were there to guard religious sites. This is obviously not true, since engineer commandos are specialized assault troops, not guards.
May 3, 2015 – Around fifty unidentified special-operations troops landed in Aden, accompanied by members of the UAE Presidential Guard. Well-trained and armed with top-of-the-line weaponry, this small force repeatedly defeated much larger Houthi units while Pakistani and Saudi unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) provided observation for naval gunfire.
May 5 to May 19, 2015 – The annual American-Jordanian military exercise Eager Lion included B-52 strategic bombers for the first time. Jordanian and Italian joint terminal attack controllers (JTACs)—air force ground troops—were trained to direct strategic bombers even though neither nation has such assets. The two B-52s made a 35-hour nonstop round trip from Louisiana to Jordan and back.
The B-52s attacked a target meant to represent an installation with antiaircraft positions.
During the exercise, the B-52s were accompanied by Jordanian F-16 “Wild Weasels,” aircraft used for suppression of enemy air defenses (SEAC).
Eager Lion 2015 was a rehearsal for an attack on heavily defended facilities.
May 6, 2015 – An Airbus A330 airliner in the livery of Saudia Airlines landed at Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv.
This is technically impossible, since Saudi Arabia doesn’t recognize the existence of Israel. The story is that airliner CS-TMT was undergoing “routine maintenance” by Bedek Aviation Group. Bedek actually specializes in converting civilian aircraft into military versions.
May 8, 2015 – Saudi Arabia announced that it had leased CS-TMT from the Portuguese company Hi-Fly, and the crew had flown the airbus to Tel Aviv without telling the Saudis. Therefore Saudi Arabia had cancelled its contract with Hi-Fly. However, in reality CS-TMT is owned by AerCap, not Hi-Fly.
AerCap is a “dry lease” outfit, meaning that they supply only the aircraft, not the crew. Therefore it must have been Saudis who flew CS-TMT to Tel Aviv, and both Saudi Arabia and Israel had to have approved the flight. There’s absolutely no way that a Saudi airliner could enter Israeli airspace without prior permission. It’s obvious that both nations wanted this airliner to be seen.
One of the non-executive directors of AerCap is Homaid Abdullah Al-Shemmari, a former lieutenant colonel in the UAE Air Force. Lt-Col Al-Shemmari is also on the board of directors of Advanced Military Maintenance, Repair & Overhaul Center, LLC (AMMROC), of the United Arab Emirates. AMMROC is the UAE version of Bedek Aviation Group. It’s considered the most advanced maintenance facility on earth. One of its services is conversions.
Since April of this year, four Israelis who don’t know each other have told me that they’ve seen two Airbus airliners flying in formation over Israel. The aircraft are white, with no markings. One of the Israelis told me that the two airliners flew out of Egypt.
Airliners NEVER fly in formation. It simply isn’t done.
My theory is that Bedek Aviation Group and AMMROC have converted Airbus A330 airliners into strategic bombers, reviving an idea that the US Air Force studied for years.
That’s the 747 air-launched cruise missile carrier (ACLM). It had nine internal rotary dispensers for launching up to 100 cruise missiles. I believe that the Israeli-Arab strategic bombers will have internal rotary dispensers to carry the high-velocity penetrating weapon instead of cruise missiles. Only two such aircraft could completely destroy all of Iran’s offensive capabilities.
In Exercise Eager Lion, the two B-52 strategic bombers dropped masses of 500-lb (226-kg) bombs.
There’s no chance whatsoever that the US will ever carpet bomb any nation while President Obama is in office. The B-52s in Eager Lion 2015 were stand-ins for the Israeli-Arab Airbus strategic bombers, which will unleash dozens or hundreds of high-velocity penetrating weapons on Iran’s nuclear and military facilities.
The nations that participated in Eager Lion 2015 were the US, Jordan, Australia, Belgium, Canada, France, Italy, Poland, the United Kingdom, Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Kuwait, Lebanon, Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates.
May 14, 2015 – The Chinese and Russian navies carried out their first-ever joint exercise in the Mediterranean. Part of Joint Sea 2015 was rehearsing how to protect Greece.
May 30 to June 15, 2015 – Angel Thunder 2015 was held in Mesa, Arizona. It’s the largest multinational combat search and rescue exercise in the world. For the first time, the US revealed that the secretive Israeli Unit 669 took part.
German pararescue operators (PJs) who attended Angel Thunder 2015 were in the process of growing beards.
June 4, 2015 – Saudi Arabia issued a seven-point plan for the Middle East. It includes the overthrow of the Iranian mullahs, achieving peace between Israel and the Arabs, and creating an independent Kurdistan.
June 4, 2015 – The IDF said that it has completed training for the next war with Hezbollah. All 1.5 million Lebanese civilians will be evacuated from Southern Lebanon within twenty-four hours, and then a furious air and ground assault will follow. Israeli intelligence indicates that Hezbollah is in deep trouble in Syria.
June 6, 2015 – Egypt and Russia held their first-ever joint naval exercises. Although both nations said that Friendship Bridge 2015 was entirely defensive in nature, all of the assets taking part were offensive, including the large landing ship Alexander Shabalin.
This Russian vessel is used for amphibious assaults.
June 8 to June 24, 2015 – The Saudis built a temporary port in Aden and inserted 1500 Yemenis they’d trained and armed mine-resistant ambush-protected vehicles (MRAPs), mortars, and antitank missiles.
June 18, 2015 – NATO declared the Very High Readiness Joint Task Force (VJTF) operational. The creation of this special-operations unit was personally approved by President Obama. On the day that the VJTF undertook its first public demonstration, Dutch members—men of the 11th Airmobile Brigade, who are specialists in air assaults—were in the process of growing beards.
July 14, 2015 – About 600 Yemeni troops accompanied by Emirati special operators broke out of Little Aden. An additional 300 troops crossed the harbor by boat and took back Aden International Airport. UAE and Saudi special operators armed with antitank guided missiles (ATGMs) allowed these very small units to defeat much larger Houthi formations. The Coalition carried out 136 air strikes in support of the breakout.
July 14, 2015 – The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action signed by the P5+1 nations, the EU, and Iran was released. It’s a complete and total surrender to Iranian demands. Over the next month, secret side deals between Iran and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) were revealed. Iran is to pay no price for violating the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Pact, economic sanctions can never be reimposed, inspectors will not have access to many sites, and Iran will be rewarded with hundreds of millions of dollars the day it signs the agreement.
The agreement also allows Iran to inspect itself for violations.
Olli Heinonen, who was in charge of the Iran probe as deputy IAEA director general from 2005 to 2010, said he could think of no similar concession with any other country.
July 15, 2015 – Jade Helm 15 began in the US. Called the largest special-operations exercise in American history, it involves 1200 soldiers training for two months across seven states.
Conspiracy theorists lost their minds, completely unaware that massive air assaults involving up to 100 helicopters are being rehearsed in the American Southwest. Three independent witnesses—two of them US Army soldiers—told me of seeing as many as fifty gunships firing live ammunition as troop transports landed and took off again. The nocturnal exercises lasted about two weeks and took place in mountainous deserts filled with abandoned hard-rock mines.
Many of these mines are fortified with concrete and go down hundreds of feet.
Beginning in early summer, Air France Airbus A380 jets began flying over my house.
They traveled eastward on the JANET route, from Los Angeles International Airport toward the Nevada National Security Site. There are no civilian airports in this direction that can handle the massive A380. The only facilities available are military. I believe that these airliners were carrying Arab and Israeli troops who rehearsed the upcoming assault on Iran in terrain that perfectly matches the target area.
July 18, 2015 – The Saudis brought Yemen’s foreign minister and head of national security back to their nation, landing them at the airport. This reestablished a Yemeni government presence.
July 19, 2015 – Israel and Greece signed a status of forces agreement (SOFA). The only other SOFA Israel has is with the US. Israel can now station personnel in Greece.
July 20, 2014 – The IDF revealed the existence of the “Wild,” a tank destroyer that had seen combat for thirty-three years but had remained a complete secret the entire time.
This revelation was intended to make people ask, “What else do they have that we don’t know about?”
July 23, 2015 – Yemeni troops and the Southern Resistance began to advance north of Aden.
July ? to ?, 2015 – In complete secrecy, the UAE landed at least one armored brigade in Aden. Although the nation has landing craft, the main battle tanks, infantry fighting vehicles, MRAPs, light armored cars, mortar carriers, and self-propelled artillery numbered in the hundreds.
Operation security (OPSEC) remains airtight. Nobody knows how the UAE did it.
July 31, 2015 – Egypt and Saudi Arabia signed the Cairo Declaration, pledging closer military ties.
August 3, 2015 – The Emirati armored brigade broke out of Aden and headed toward Sana’a, the Houthi capital. About 1500 Yemeni mechanized infantry accompanied the Emiratis. They were trained and equipped by the UAE over the previous five months.
August 4, 2015 – A large Yemeni force with attached Saudi special operators invaded Yemen through the al-Wadiya border post. Consisting of main battle tanks, infantry fighting vehicles, MRAPs, and armored cars, the unit may number up to 150,000 men. Operation Golden Arrow is the name of the ground war. Like the UAE amphibious landing, this invasion remains a logistical mystery.
August 13, 2015 – The Islamic State used mustard gas against Kurdish forces. Military analysts claimed that the terrorists could have found the chemical weapons in Iraq or Syria, but in reality someone had to have trained the Islamic State in how to use mustard gas. Simply handling the shells or rockets requires great skill. The only regional actor with the capability and motivation to train the Islamic State in the use of chemical weapons is Iran.
August 14, 2015 – Kuwait seized three gigantic arms caches smuggled into the country from Iran. The weapons were intended to arm a terror cell.
August 16, 2015 – An Islamic State blueprint for taking over the world was published in Pakistan.
In response to the document, a senior ranking Israeli official said that in the Middle East the world faces two threats – from Islamic State and from Iran. “We need not strengthen one at the expense of the other. We need to weaken both and prevent the aggression and arming of both,” he warned.
August 17 to August 28, 2015 – After an absence of almost ten years, Israel returned to the multilateral military exercise Red Flag, held at Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada. This year, Israeli and Jordanian jets flew to Nellis together for the first time.
At Red Flag, various operations are practiced in the mountains and deserts of Nevada.
August 20, 2015 – The Iranian Quds Force directed a Palestinian Islamic Jihad rocket attack on Israel from Syria. Israel retaliated with artillery and air strikes.
Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon warned the rocket fire was merely a “coming attraction” for future Iranian-funded attacks on Israel. With sanctions relief as part of the Iran nuclear deal, Tehran will increase support for its Middle East proxies, he maintained.
“What we have seen tonight is just a coming attraction for a richer and more murderous Iran,” Ya’alon said in a statement.
“This is the intention of the bloody regime from Tehran, and the Western world cannot just sweep that fact under the rug,” he added.
Nadav Pollak, a senior researcher at the Washington Institute, told The Times of Israel that the use of rockets, instead of mortar shells, was intentional.
This is a way for the [Iranian] Quds Force to say, “You know that it was us, but the rockets prove that it was,” Pollak explained.
August 21, 2015 – The Center for Strategic and International Studies revealed that for the past decade, the US has been transferring the world’s most modern weaponry to the Sunni Gulf states. Arab states are outspending Iran on weapons by a factor of ten. While talking of peace, the US is arming the Sunnis for a massively violent war.
These figures…show the sheer scale of the U.S. strategic commitment to the Gulf states, and that the U.S. has no intention of turning to Iran at the expense of the Arab states.
Given all of the above—especially the fact that President Obama as Commander-in-Chief had to have approved all of the US military actions mentioned—we can arrive at only one conclusion.
The Iranian nuclear deal is the most daring military deception operation of all time. It’s intended to give Israel and the Sunni Arabs a casus belli to attack Iran and destroy the mullacracy, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, the Quds Force, Hezbollah, Hamas, and the Islamic State.
After studying the war in Yemen and seeing what the Arab Coalition is doing with so few special operators, I can say with confidence that the war against Iran and the Islamic State will be over quickly, and the region will begin to transform itself into a place of peaceful coexistence.
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