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Iran closes two border crossings with Kurdish region of Iraq
Hey Watchmen,
Iran just shut two crossings with the Kurdish region of Iraq, and my friends, don't let that slide by as a footnote. I've walked you through this before — the headquarters of that unofficial Kurdish state sits right there in Erbil, Iraq, and Iran and Iraq are the two powers who actually give Kurdistan any legitimacy, while Turkey wants nothing to do with it. That triangle — Iran, Iraq, and the Kurds — is exactly the kind of pressure point that can light the fuse on the Daniel 8 conflict between the Ram and the Goat, the one I've told you sits right along that Iran-Turkey fault line. Tehran doesn't close border crossings for no reason — that's control, that's leverage, and it usually means they're nervous about who's moving through that corridor and what Ankara or Erbil might be cooking up on the other side.
Scripture doesn't leave us guessing about nations drawing hard lines and choking off passage in the last days. Look at Joel 3:2 — Elohim says He will gather all nations and enter into judgment with them there, over how they've carved up and scattered His land and His people. Border closures, corridors, contested territory — this is the chessboard the prophets described, and Iran playing gatekeeper over a Kurdish population caught between empires is one more piece moving into place. This isn't random regional squabbling, friends — it's the kind of tightening we were told to expect as the Ram-Goat conflict edges closer.
Keep your eyes up and your lamps trimmed — watch the Iran-Iraq-Turkey triangle, because that's where this next move is most likely to break loose.
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