Crescent of Fire

The flames of Iranian military power and Islamic extremism threaten to engulf Israel in the inferno of a wide-scale war.

Iran’s Ayatollah Khomenei and Islamic religious leaders are on a warpath to make Israel pay a heavy price for the recent assassination of Hamas’s top political leader, Ismail Haniyeh – something for which Israel has yet to officially claim responsibility. Haniyeh’s shocking death, which occurred in the Iranian capital of Tehran, has caused a virulent uproar in the region – raising the ire of Iran and its Shiite Muslim allies. Together, they form a “crescent of fire” – a geographic arc of Iranian dominance that spans from Lebanon in the north to Yemen in the south.

The flames of Iranian military power and Shiite Muslim extremism have swept west ward across the deserts of Iraq and Syria – burning through the capitals of Baghdad and Damascus, and scorching a path to the Lebanese coast of the Mediterranean. Through its terror proxy, Hezbollah, in southern Lebanon, Iran’s “crescent of fire” has now reached the borders of Israel, and threatens to engulf the Jewish state in the inferno of a wide-scale war.