Friday News Update 6/20/25

For I will cause Elam to be dismayed before their enemies

We’re still largely focused on the conflict in Iran over the past couple of days but we’re starting to see China raise its head out of a couple of the holes. There’s a good chance that China is actually behind much of what we’re seeing happening, all in the name of getting to test their military tech in modern warfare without having to go to war, yet.

One World Government (Rev 13:3)

US Front

• The plane known as the “Doomsday Plane”, the Presidential Boeing E-4 which is built to withstand nuclear attack, made an emergency trip from Louisiana up to Andrews AF Base, near Washington DC.

  

  The route which the plane took was not a normal route, which had it making a loop while going over the border between North Carolina and Virginia. This is not a normal flight path.

  

• Ted Cruz has been raising alarms that Iran may have the ability to attack the US electric grid by using one of their satellites with a nuke onboard and detonate it over the US, causing an EMP which would take out the grid in the US. I honestly don’t doubt that Iran has sleeper cells in the US, and we probably won’t know what their intent might be until the US would officially join Israel in their war on Iran.

• On Tuesday night, DHS Secretary Kristi Noem was rushed to the hospital. We were later told that she had to go to the hospital because she was experiencing an allergic reaction. What wasn’t in that initial story is that she was at a Biohazard Lab the day before she had this ‘allergic reaction’.

• Donald Trump stated on Thursday (right after he had all but assured the world that he was about to join the Israeli attack against Iran) announced that he would make his decision on whether to attack Iran within 2 weeks. Of course, “within 2 weeks” could be as soon as 3 minutes from now, but many are getting tired of the President’s constant ‘stop’ & ‘start’ antics. This is the same M.O. he’s had with all of the tariffs. It comes off as indecisive and not serious. We’re now getting reports that the Trump Admin has given Iran their final offer and that it includes completely dismantling uranium enrichment and drastically scaling back ballistic missile production. If this is actually the final offer, you can bet that the US is already making plans on which planes are going to do that attack run.

Red Horse: Wars & Rumors of Wars (Rev 6:3-4; Matt 24:6)

Middle East Hodgepodge

• Two Iranian government planes flew to Oman on Wednesday morning and there was some speculation that Iranian officials were traveling to Oman to negotiate a ceasefire/surrender with the US. This was quickly shown to not be the case when Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei declared that Iran will never surrender. What were those planes doing in Oman? There hasn’t been a real explanation but I wouldn’t be surprised if they were moving assets, seeing some dangerous times for leadership in Iran.

• Iran struck the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange with a ballistic missile and it had to be evacuated with fears that the whole building is going to collapse.

  

• Iran struck Soroka Hospital in Israel and Israeli politicians are not happy.
  

  
  Some are calling the reaction from Israel out as being hypocritical, after they have flattened multiple hospitals in Gaza after saying there were terror tunnels underneath them. Regardless, Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz has vowed the Ayatollah Khamenei will pay dearly for his decision to attack a hospital. Iran has responded by saying that the target was an adjacent military headquarters. It should be noted that Israel does have a habit of placing their military buildings in the middle of civilian infrastructure. While this isn’t necessarily a ‘human shield’, it has the same effect when those military bases are attacked; Israel can call out their attackers for striking a civilian area. For what it’s worth, Iran has released an image which they’re arguing that there is a secret military base underneath the hospital. While I guess anything is possible, this Iranian release feels way too much like they’re just copying what Israel does when they bomb a hospital in Gaza.

• On Thursday afternoon the IDF started dropping bombs on an underground bunker on the outskirts of Tehran. There’s speculation going around that Ayatollah Khamenei was the target and that he could possibly be dead. At this point it looks like this probably isn’t the case. The IDF has stated that Khamenei wasn’t the target of the attack on the bunker. I’m still not sure we’ve seen anything from Khamenei since this attack but Israel is usually pretty quick to announce if they think they’ve assassinated an enemy leader. For what it’s worth, Russia has made it very clear that they wouldn’t take all that kindly to an assassination of Khamenei.

Gog & Magog (Ezekiel 38-39)

• China has been sending planes into Iran that no one knows the purpose of, but they’re probably delivering them aid to help with their attacks on Israel. The cargo planes take off in China with a declared flight route which will take them to Luxembourg, but they never fly to Luxembourg and the planes go off the RADAR in Iran. What is probably happening is that China is getting the opportunity to have some of their military technology tested in battle before they actually need to use it themselves, and they can adjust it, learning from the gaps in the technology.

• In a confirmation hearing in South Korea, while being interviewed for a position as head of the South Korea spy agency, Lee Jong-seok expressed his belief (presumably from reliable sources, if he’s interviewing for head of South Korea’s CIA) that if North Korea were to nuke South Korea, the US would nuke North Korea. Why was that even a question that was raised?