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The Black Flag Raised in Khorasan - Multiple Embassies Attacked

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For the first time in History, the Iranians have placed the black flag over the Imam Reza Shrine.



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From the article:

"This is not a standard flag; it resonates deeply with Islamic prophecy, echoing a Hadith about Khorasan."

At approximately the same time as the raising of the flag, an official tweet from the Iranian embassy in Syria said "Time is up" in Hebrew first.

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A couple important things to note, this shrine is IN Khorasan and is a mosque that Mohammed prophecied would be a shrine of pilgrimage. (And Shi'i do make pilgrimage to this shrine)

Khorasan in particular is also the place where it is said Imam Mahdi will be from when he engages in the final wars...

Ahadith says:

تَخْرُجُ مِنْ خُرَاسَانَ رَايَاتٌ سُودٌ لَا يَرُدُّهَا شَيْءٌ حَتَّى تُنْصَبَ بِإِيلِيَاءَ

Black standards will come from Khorasan, nothing shall turn them back until they are planted in Jerusalem.

Source: Sunan al-Tirmidhī 2269

Another says;

the tradition attributed to Thawban in which Mohammed said:

يَقْتَتِلُ عِنْدَ كَنْزِكُمْ ثَلاَثَةٌ كُلُّهُمُ ابْنُ خَلِيفَةٍ ثُمَّ لاَ يَصِيرُ إِلَى وَاحِدٍ مِنْهُمْ ثُمَّ تَطْلُعُ الرَّايَاتُ السُّودُ مِنْ قِبَلِ الْمَشْرِقِ فَيَقْتُلُونَكُمْ قَتْلاً لَمْ يُقْتَلْهُ قَوْمٌ

Three will fight one another for your treasure, each one of them the son of a caliph, but none of them will gain it. Then the black banners will come from the east, and they will kill you in an unprecedented manner.

Then he said:

فَإِذَا رَأَيْتُمُوهُ فَبَايِعُوهُ وَلَوْ حَبْوًا عَلَى الثَّلْجِ فَإِنَّهُ خَلِيفَةُ اللَّهِ الْمَهْدِيُّ

When you see them, then pledge your allegiance to them even if you have to crawl over the snow, for that is the caliph of Allah, Al-Mahdi.

Source: Sunan Ibn Mājah 4084

Even the Muslim apologists note the Khorasan symbolism and I personally see this as a call from Iran to arms.

I think everyone sees it the same way as western Embassies all over the middle east are under attack at this present moment.

In Turkey the American Embassy and military base are under attack. (Being NATO allies is a joke, we should have left NATO when Turkey joined). In Jordan the Israeli Embassy is under attack, In Iraq the US embassy is under attack, and the French, British and US Embassies are all under attack in Lebanon.


I believe the black flag and the tweet from the Syrian embassy was a particular call to attack embassies, and people listened.

I do believe Iran is 100% in it at this point, if they weren't in it from the start. They have a plan in place, and we would be wise to see it as a larger threat than we currently might imagine it to be.

I had a live stream link but there was bad language so I'm not posting it.





^^^ This later is Ben Shapiro, he's doing a good job of explaining a few things so I added this. He posted this video prior to the flag being raised.

Today's Parliament opened in Iran today with the members shouting Death to Israel and Death to America.

 
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For the first time in History, the Iranians have placed the black flag over the Imam Reza Shrine...


...I personally see this as a call from Iran to arms.
This isn't the first time in history the black flag has flown over the Shrine, it's raised every year for the mourning of Husayn ibn Ali, the third Imam of Shia Muslims. The black flag is a symbol of mourning in Shia Islam and represents an expression of grief, mourning and solidarity, not a call to arms. Below is an article from 2020.

Black flag on dome of Imam Reza (AS) shrine replaced

The workers of the holy Shrine of Imam Reza, the eighth Shia Imam, replace the black flag of the dome of this sacred place with a green one and gather the black banners installed on the walls of the precincts of the holy shrine as the two Shia mourning months of Muharram and Safar come to an end in Mashad, Iran Oct 20, 2020. IRNA/Mohsen Bakhshandeh Zahmati


The black flag was raised yesterday as a symbol of mourning and condemnation of those killed at the Al Ahli Baptist Hospital in Gaza.

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This isn't the first time in history the black flag has flown over the Shrine, it's raised every year for the mourning of Husayn ibn Ali, the third Imam of Shia Muslims. The black flag is a symbol of mourning in Shia Islam and represents an expression of grief, mourning and solidarity, not a call to arms. Below is an article from 2020.

Black flag on dome of Imam Reza (AS) shrine replaced

The workers of the holy Shrine of Imam Reza, the eighth Shia Imam, replace the black flag of the dome of this sacred place with a green one and gather the black banners installed on the walls of the precincts of the holy shrine as the two Shia mourning months of Muharram and Safar come to an end in Mashad, Iran Oct 20, 2020. IRNA/Mohsen Bakhshandeh Zahmati


The black flag was raised yesterday as a signal of mourning and condemnation of those killed at the Al Ahli Baptist Hospital in Gaza.

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Do you need me to explain the difference between raising the flag for a religious purpose and raising it in the name of Palestine?

This has serious implications... Not a mild thing and it's the VERY FIRST TIME in HISTORY this flag has been raised for a purpose unrelated to the Imam and his family.

Even MUSLIM APOLOGISTS acknowledge this...And I'm a former Muslim also. This is major.
 
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Far more significant, IMO, is the call by Hamas to protest the hundreds of Palestinians killed at the Gaza hospital. 24 hours after the incident, all signs point to failed Islamic Jihad rockets. However, most of the Arab world already concluded Israel is responsible. I doubt the evidnece will convince many to conclude otherwise.

Tensions are extremely high across the region.

 
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Do you need me to explain the difference between raising the flag for a religious purpose and raising it in the name of Palestine?

This has serious implications... Not a mild thing and it's the VERY FIRST TIME in HISTORY this flag has been raised for a purpose unrelated to the Imam and his family.
If a flag were to be raised as a signal for revenge or vengance it would be red according to Shia tradition, not black.
 
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I think now would be a good time to ensure Iran is not building a nuclear bomb. I heard they have all the necessary ingredients to make it, but that it takes about two months to complete.

...All eyes on Iran!

...And those they fund.
 
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Far more significant, IMO, is the call by Hamas to protest the hundreds of Palestinians killed at the Gaza hospital. 24 hours after the incident, all signs point to failed Islamic Jihad rockets. However, most of the Arab world already concluded Israel is responsible. I doubt the evidnece will convince many to conclude otherwise.

Tensions are extremely high across the region.

I was a dues paying member of the James Randi Educational Foundation and while I didn't apply skepticism as often as I should (especially with regard to women, though perhaps that's unrealistic expectations... but I digress), and the last 22 years has made "The skeptical Arab street" as cringe inducing.

Arab street skepticism seems to apply universally to anything positive about the U.S., UK or Israel, but evaporates if it's something negative.
 
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In the chaotic aftermath of an attack Tuesday on a Gaza hospital, as Israeli and Palestinian officials traded blame for an aerial barrage that killed at least 500 people, the militant group Hamas quickly turned to its primary messaging platform: the online chat app Telegram.

Israel’s military had blamed the blast on misfired rockets from another Palestinian militant group. But over a rapid-fire series of nearly two dozen messages in Arabic and English, Hamas told its online audience of hundreds of thousands that the “massacre” had come from an Israeli airstrike and that the country and its Western allies were at fault for “genocide.”

Gaza Now, a Hamas-linked Telegram channel with 1.4 million subscribers, posted photos of what appeared to be children killed or badly injured in the strike. The official Hamas channel urged its supporters, in one Arabic post, to “take direct action, show anger. … Do not wait for tomorrow.”



The last sentence is telling....
 
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