Prophecy Alert—Is Iran Heading for a Nuclear Disaster?
Report Topics:
- The Iranian uranium enrichment center at Natanz may be destroyed very soon by an attack, an earthquake or a major accident
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One of the more curious and enigmatic verses of Nostradamus is Century VI, Quatrain 44, which, in its strict translation directly from the original Old French, reads:
De nuit par Nantes l’Iris apparaîtra,
Des arts marins susciteront la pluie:
Arabiq gouffre grande classe parfondra,
Un monstre en Saxe naîtra d’ours et truie.
Century VI, Quatrain 44.
At night a rainbow will appear above Nantes,
By marine arts they will stir up rain,
In the Gulf of Arabia a great fleet will plunge to the bottom,
In Saxe monsters stillborn to bears and sows.
The first challenge to interpreting this prophetic poem is in the seeming diversity of the geographical locations involved. In line one appears the name Nantes, a city in western France situated in the region of Brittany on the Loire river and about 35 miles from the Atlantic coast. However, the mention in line three of “Gulf of Arabia”—the modern Persian Gulf—shifts the focus to the Middle East. And in the last line the appellation “Saxe,” which most Nostradamian conservative commentators believe refers to Saxony, changes the scenario again, this time to north-central Germany, and the several regions which have borne that title from the twelfth century to the present. How are we to reconcile these locations spread out over so wide an area if we are to discover when the possible future events described associated with them will take place?
We know from past interpretive studies that the French prophet often used recognizable place-names as anagrams or word-plays for other hidden locations meant to be the real focus of his prognostications. As we shall see shortly, this appears to be precisely the case for both the names “Nantes” and “Saxe.” The one geographical feature that is not a singular word but rather is a more descriptive phrase, and therefore most likely not meant to be an anagram, is the “Gulf of Arabia” or the modern Persian Gulf. This is the real key as to where the future happenings Nostradamus foresaw may one day manifest.
Line one reads, “At night a rainbow will appear above Nantes.” If this is supposed to be merely an unusual atmospheric phenomenon, nothing like it has occurred in the entire history of the French city of Nantes, which dates back to Roman times over two thousand years ago. However, if “Nantes” is instead some form of word-play for another hidden location that is more closely associated with the Persian Gulf region (line three), then one name immediately stands out that has been prominently seen in the world news media in just the last few years.
“Nantes” in Renaissance annagramic writing may be a syncope for Natanz, located in modern central Iran between Isfahan and Kashan. Since 2002, it has been identified by satellite surveillance as the Iranian revolutionary government’s center for the gas-centrifuge extraction and enrichment of plutonium and uranium, materials that potentially can be utilized in the production of nuclear weapons. Images from space reveal ongoing construction of a series of deep underground tunnels and facilities for storing spent nuclear fuel, centrifuge manufacturing and assembly, centrifuge components, natural and enriched uranium, as well as secret areas for the production and stockpiling of active weapons of mass destruction.
The international community, led by the United States, European Union and Israel, have protested with economic sanctions and United Nations resolutions against Iran’s nuclear ambitions, coupled with its missile development program. The fear is that the presence of nuclear arms with large-range delivery systems in the heart of the Middle East can do nothing but destabilize an already volatile region. Israel in particular feels vulnerable, with several prominent political and religious leaders of the Iranian government making statements over the past decade threatening the state of Israel and its people with total annihilation.
At the end of March, 2009, newly elected Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu warned that if the United States does not take immediate steps through direct negotiations with Iran to stop its nuclear program, then it will be up to his country to end it through the use of force, through strategic air strikes against all Iranian production facilities, especially at Natanz.
In Nostradamus’ description, “at night a rainbow will appear over” the nuclear enrichment center. This is by no means a natural atmospheric phenomenon, but instead suggests it will be created by something man-made. Rainbows are produced by the sun, and the only way that a rainbow could appear during the night hours is if something like the sun will suddenly flash into existence in an instant—an artificial sun, or a nuclear explosion.
One is reminded of the descriptions made over seventy years ago by the survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki that, within seconds after each atomic bomb burst, the skies were filled with all the colors of the rainbow.
If and when the Israeli Air Force carries out its threat to attack Natanz, will they be so bold as to use one of their own nuclear weapons to utterly destroy all its underground facilities in one blow? Or is it possible that a more conventional saturation and depth-penetration bombing will trigger an nuclear holocaust at Natanz that will involve its stockpiled enriched uranium and finished weapons all being detonated at once?
Curiously, the French seer did not identify who the attackers may be—and, in fact, this may be an indication that there will not be any military strike force involved at all. Two other possible sources for a disaster at Natanz could be either a major earthquake or a careless accident caused by the negligence of the Iranian scientists and workers themselves. Much of Iran is situated among a series of very active seismic zones, and a giant quake in the vicinity of Natanz could very well collapse its tunnels and set off a tremendous runaway reaction. Then again, members of the Iranian nuclear team could blunder in their calculations in dealing with such unstable substances as plutonium and uranium, and might be the unwitting instigators of a tragic catastrophe.
Whatever the ultimate cause, Nostradamus in the last line of his prophecy indicates that the devastating results of the nuclear disaster will not only affect Iran, but will seriously contaminate a very wide area, the deadly radioactivity spreading into bordering regions. The line reads, “In Saxe monsters (mutations) stillborn to mountain bears (wildlife) and sows (domesticated animals).” Here, “Saxe” has nothing to do with Germany, but instead the word is used as an annagramic word-play for (K)asex/ Kasa(kh)s/ Kazakhstan, which neighbors Iran across the southern Caspian Sea. What is depicted here is that a large cloud of radiation from Natanz will be carried by prevailing wind currents northeastward into the central Asian nation of Kazakhstan, and will contaminate both the indigenous wildlife—which does indeed include mountain bears—as well as domesticated breeds such as sows and other farm animals throughout the region. Large numbers will likely die immediately from the lethal exposure, and those which do manage to survive will eventually give birth to dead malformed offspring, severely reducing the fauna population even further. This will be an ecological disaster of unprecedented proportions, far worse than Chernobyl in the 1980‘s. And if these terrible consequences will be affecting the regional animal life, one can only imagine what will also happen to the human inhabitants as well.
Nostradamus’ second and third lines of his quatrain offer another prophecy, which could be a more indirect result of the Natanz disaster. The lines read, “By marine arts they will stir up rain, (and as a consequence) in the Gulf of Arabia (the Persian Gulf) a great fleet will plunge to the bottom (will be sunk).”
In the French prophet’s day of the sixteenth century, these words would not have made much sense. But in our day of twenty-first century sophisticated science and technology, they starkly describe a secret environmental weapon that very likely is either on the drawing boards or possibly in the testing phases right now. “By marine arts they will stir up rain”—artificially-created weather will be used against an unsuspecting enemy. That enemy will be a “great fleet”—an American naval task force?—that will be operating in the Persian Gulf, just as they so often do today. The weather weapon deployed against the American ships will be so effective, causing a sudden typhoon-like storm front and chaotic sea conditions, that it will successfully scatter the navy and destroy a greater part of it.
Two other Nostradamian verses—Presage 11 and Century I, Quatrain 30— also describe the use of artificial weather against a hapless fleet unprepared to deal with the violence this weapon will unleash:
He will force the sky to weep for him,
The sea prepared in a special way, Hannibal (a Middle Eastern Leader) will perform his trick,
Divided, soaked, delayed, the fleet will not keep silent,
Not knowing the secret (weapon), while another will be amused at their plight.
Because of the stormy seas made strange (artificially created) the ship (fleet),
Will be lost trying to approach the port that cannot be found (radar rendered useless),
Signals blocked from reaching the palm branch (antennae electronically jammed?),
Afterwards will come death, invasion and pillage, good advice (intelligence) given too late.
The deployment of such a weather weapon may not be fully operational for another decade or so. But if Iran’s nuclear ambitions are severly thwarted by attack or quake or accident in the next year or two, then its leaders may convinced to abandon its nuclear program altogether in favor of developing far more advanced weapons with even greater destructive powers in the future yet to come.
[Copyright 2009. Joseph Robert Jochmans. All Rights Reserved.]
