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In this series, political editor Dr Martin Hirst outlines the fault lines and front lines that could escalate localised and regional conflicts into a global war with possible nuclear consequences. In this second instalment, the focus is on Syria, where U.S. and Russian forces are facing off in a proxy war that shows no sign of ending any time soon.

[Read Part One HERE]

Attention! Your attention, please! A news flash has this moment arrived from the Malabar Front. Our forces in South India have won a glorious victory. I am authorized to say that the action we are now reporting may well bring the war within measurable distance of its end"

Bad news is coming thought Winston. And sure enoughas from next week, the chocolate ration would be reduced from thirty grammes to twenty.

~ George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four

Of course, the end of the war does not come any closerand, for Winston, the bad news keeps coming. Syria is our Malabar Front.

In mid-February this year, four Russians were killed by a roadside bomb near the embattled Syrian city of Homs. They were "advisors" with Syrian Government forces. That same week, a Russian airstrike killed three Turkish soldiers in an all-too-common "friendly-fire" incident on the Syrian "battle space".

A month later, a very credible Reuters dispatch put the number of Russian fighter deaths at 18 so far in 2017. A number of Russians were among heavy losses sustained in the battles around Palmyra with forces identified as "Islamic State".

Russia has been involved in Syria, on the side of the Assad Government, since mid-2015. Russian planes bombed a market in the anti-Assad stronghold of Aleppo in September 2016. The Syrian Network for Human Rights published research showing Russian airstrikes, in support of Assads forces on the ground, had killed over 2,700 civilians.

Russia was not the first global power to drop bombs in Syria. The Americans stepped in first in September 2014and since then has been bombing IS targets in Syria.

Australia has around 800 personnel deployed on missions in Syria and Iraq, offering co-operation and enthusiastic support for the American effort against terrorism. In September 2016, Australian aircraft were involved in a botched U.S. air strike which killed Syrian government troops accidentally.

Task Group Taji: 300 Aussies with the combined Australian-New Zealand military training force located at the Taji Military Complex northwest of Baghdad.

Special Operations Task Group: 80 Australians providing "military advice and assistance to the Counter-Terrorism Service of the Iraqi Security Forces."

Air Task Group: 400 personnel in support of airstrikes over Syria and Iraq.

Australia also has six F/A-18 Hornet fighter jets in the theatre, as well as an E-7 Wedgetail airborne early warning and control aircraft and a KC-30A Multi Role Tanker Transport.

These aircraft have to date conducted a total of 1,646 sorties and released 641 munitions in the conflict.

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The Russian bombing of Aleppo in the last quarter of 2016 prompted a falling out between Washington and Moscow over the air war in Syria. Then Obamas administration Secretary of State John Kerry condemned the airstrikes, which had also allegedly deliberately hit hospitals in rebel-held areas.

Kerry also announced an end to U.S. cooperation with Russian forces in combatting the ISfactions in October 2016but, by the end of the year perhaps sensing that without Putin there was no solution in Syria Kerry had changed the U.S. tune again, urging Russia to help broker a ceasefire in Aleppo, but not calling for Assad to step down.

Of course, as we know, this is the situation inherited by Donald Trump in January 2017 after his inauguration. Trump pledged to go after ISIS in Syria and Iraq and claimed he would be able to defeat the terrorist threat quickly.

Like most of Trumps promises, this one has not been kept, nor can it be.

On the ground, Trumps plan was to create so-called "safe zones" for Syrian refugees inside Syria. However, this is a fraught strategy that has, so far, not been implemented. When it was raised earlier this year, the plan was seen to be too dangerous, given the global focus on Syria.

Even Trump seemed to back away from it in an interview with The Guardian.

What we should do is focus on ISIS. We should not be focusing on Syria, Trump told The Guardian. Youre going to end up in World War III over Syria if we listen to Hillary Clinton.

He continued: Youre not fighting Syria anymore, youre fighting Syria, Russia and Iran, all right? Russia is a nuclear country, but a country where the nukes work as opposed to other countries that talk.

Russia also issued a veiled warning to the Trump administration.

Dmitry Peskov, spokesman for Russian President Vladimir Putin, said in a conference call with reporters Thursday that its important for the US to think about the potential consequences of establishing safe zones in Syria.

While Trumps plan for refugee safe zones seems to have evaporated, the U.S. has continued to be aggressive in Syria. In response to a regime-launched chemical weapon attack in rebel-held Idlib, Trump authorised the launch of 59 cruise missiles into a Syrian Government airfield in the first week of April.

It was a strange, if symbolic, gesture. The Syrian planes that dropped the sarin gas bombs on Idlib flew from the airbase that was bombed. But Washington told Moscow the attack was imminent. Moscow told Damascus and the Syrian Air Force moved its assets.

This convoluted exercise both defines and obscures the tangled web of global fault lines and power lines that criss-cross Syrian airspace, and complicated the battlefield.

Trump is behaving strangely for someone who acknowledges the dangers in escalating the war in Syria.

Almost a month after the cruise missile strike, the strategic goal of the attack on the Shayrat Airbase is not clear. Even the White House and the State Department continue to send mixed signals on the raid.

Secretary of StateRex Tillersononly added to the confusion with this statement:

This clearly indicates the president is willing to take decisive action when called for, the secretary said. I would not in any way attempt to extrapolate that to a change in our policy or posture relative to our military activities in Syria today. There has been no change in that status. What exactly does he mean by that? Is it still not a U.S. priority to take out Assad? Spicer cut off questioning before anyone could follow up.

The situation in Syria is made both more complex and more dangerous because of the deeply-embedded Russian presence, and the alliance of military and strategic convenience between Moscow, Damascus and Tehran.

The Russia-Syria-Iran alliance is a Gordian knot for the West. Russia wants to keep Assad in power and so too does Iran. The U.S. cannot remove Assad without Russian and Iranian approval, and help.

Neither is inclined to be helpful.

Syria will remain in a state of dangerous stasis for the foreseeable future. While ever Washington and Moscow use Syria as a pawn, a bargaining chip, or a proxy battle field, the potential for a more extensive conflict to begin there will only grow.

The problem many of us confront when thinking about Syria is that there does not appear to be any "side" in this war that can be supported without reservation.

If we are to come to grips with a region that could springboard us into a global war, we need to come to terms with the various factions, which well look at in Part 3 of this series.

In case you missed it, Part 1 of this series, 'Are we already fighting World War 3?' examined the potential for global war to break-out in north Asia in response to either North Korean nuclear testing, or Chinese expansion in the region.

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Syria: The new front line in a potentially global conflict (WW3 - Part Two) - Independent Australia

RUSSIA will fly over Europe mapping NATO forces to assess the nuclear threat this week.

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Vladimir Putins spy aircraft will fly over the Balkan states Croatia and Slovenia which are NATO members to make observations from today until Saturday, April 29.

The head of Russias Nuclear Risk Reduction Centre announced the brazen flights.

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Moscow has repeatedly tested NATOs air defences.

US fighters were scrambled four times in four days as Russian nuclear bombers buzzed Alaska over the past week.

Putin has an arsenal of state-of-the-art weaponry at his fingertips. Could this be the hardware that wages WW3?

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RAF jets have been sent out to intercept Russian warplanes around the UK multiple times over the past year.

NATO aircraft from FOUR countries were called to shadow Putins planes last autumn.

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Russia is planning to carry out an observation flight over the territory of Slovenia and Croatia

Staggeringly, NATO is powerless to stop todays flyover which will allow Russian military experts to plot where all our defences are.

We signed a deal with the Kremlin to allow the flights under the Treaty on Open Skies signed with the former Soviet leaders in 1992.

As Donald Trump has promised to start an arms race, we take a look at the futuristic weapons being developed for the US military.

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Sergei Ryzhkov, head of the Russian Defence Ministry's Nuclear Risk Reduction Centre, said: Within the framework of implementation of the Treaty on Open Skies, Russia is planning to carry out an observation flight on the Russian An-30B aircraft over the territory of Slovenia and Croatia.

Russian An-30B Clank aircraft will be allowed to take off from airfields around Slovenian capital Ljubljana and Zagreb, in Croatia.

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French observers will be on board to check the Russians dont pull a fast one.

The Treaty on Open Skies which came into force in 2002 was supposed to build trust between the former USSR and NATO by forcing each to show their hand in a bid to avoid an apocalyptic nuclear war.

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A US Defence official told CNN, Russian military aircraft have been seen flying off the coast of Alaska for the fourth time in four days.

Two Tu-95 nuclear-capable Bear bombers and two IL-38 maritime patrol aircraft were spotted off the coast but remained outside of US airspace on Wednesday and Thursday.

According to CNN, the bombers entered the Alaskan Air Defence Identification Zone some 700 nautical miles southwest of Anchorage.

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All such missions are carried out in strict compliance with international regulations and with respect to national borders

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The US Defence official said there is no other way to interpret this other than as strategic messaging.

US fighter jets intercepted two Russian bombers in international airspace 100 miles from Kodiak Island, Alaska on Monday.

Tensions continued to escalate on Tuesday when two Russian bombers were spotted in the same area just 41 miles off the Alaskan coast.

US surveillance aircraft were called to the scene as Moscow said the movements were part of regular patrols.

The Russian Defence Ministry said its aircraft regularly carries out patrol missions above the neutral waters of the Arctic, the Atlantic, the Black Sea and the Pacific Ocean.

All such missions are carried out in strict compliance with international regulations and with respect to national borders.

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Fifth-grade students of the General Yermolov Cadet School wear gas masks during their first military tactical exercise on the ground, which includes radiation resistance classes, forest survival studies and other activities, in Stavropol, Russia

But one US defence expert says the missions are part of Russian President Vladimir Putin trying to prove Russia is back in the game.

Howard Stoffer, a former member of the State Department, told CNN: "This kind of cat-and-mouse stuff has been going on for a while now.

Putin is trying to put the US on notice that the Russians are everywhere and are back to expanding the limits of expanding their military power."

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As tensions threaten to reach boiling point over North Korea and Syria, Russian aircraft have been seen flying along the coastline of US ally Japan four times this month.

Russian spy ship the Viktor Leonov has also reportedly been spotted near the US coastline twice as US-Russia relations reach a new low.

But Mr Stoffer says although it is unlikely the US would fire a shot at Russian military, Washington could authorise attempts to jam Russian aircraft radar and systems sparking a plane crash.

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If war breaks out retired Air Force General Michael Hayden insists the US is the stronger power.

He said: No one wants to go to war with the Russians, but let me double down on another concept: The Russians really don't want to go to war with us. They are by far the weaker power.

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WW3 FEARS: Russia returns with NUCLEAR bombers to US coast after fighter jet chase - Express.co.uk

A blind mystic who correctly predicted Brexit, 9/11, the rise of ISIS and the Boxing Day tsunami also warned of conflict in Syria, nuclear war and the demise of the US president.

As tensions rise between the United States and North Korea, conspiracy theorists believe prophetess Baba Vanga may have foretold a catastrophic global war.

The Bulgarian - who died in 1996 aged 85 - was known as the 'Nostradamus from the Balkans'.

She is revered in Russia for her 85% success rate when it comes to telling the future - with millions convinced that she possessed paranormal abilities.

Before she died, the clairvoyant made a chilling prophecy about the use of nuclear weapons and World War 3.

Baba prophesised a 2016 invasion of Europe by Muslim extremists, a conflict she predicted would begin with the Arab Spring in 2010.

She also forewarned of a showdown in Syria where Muslims would use chemical warfare against Europeans.

The prediction is eerily similar to the Sarin gas attack thought to have been conducted on the orders of Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad.

Many put faith in Baba's predictions due to the accuracy of her previous prophecies.

Theorists believe she foretold Brexit - even going so far as to say that Europe as we know it will cease to exist by the end of 2016.

Moreover she claimed the continent will be left almost empty - and be turned into a wasteland almost entirely devoid of any form of life.

She foretold that nuclear war would ravages the world and most people die of skin cancer from chemical weapons.

Baba also appeared to predict that the 45th President of the United States - who we now know to be Donald Trump - would be faced with a crisis which would "bring the country down".

Her chilling prediction states: Everyone will put their hopes in him to end it, but the opposite will happen; he will bring the country down and conflicts between north and south states will escalate.

Some speculate the references to "north and south" could mean North and South Korea.

Moreover, Baba warned than assassination attempts on four heads of states in 2010 would become one of the causes for the start of WWIII.

Some dismissed this prediction as incorrect as the heads of state were believed to potentially refer to Obama, Sarkozsky, Netanyahu, Vladimir Putin and Gordon Brown.

However, observers note that Hamas leader Mahmd al-Mabhouh was assassinated in Dubai on January 19, 2010 and Polish leader Lech Kaczynski was found dead in suspicious circumstances on April 10, 2010.

Others point out that Libya's Colonel Muammar Gaddafi was killed on October 20, 2011 and Saddam Hussein died a few years earlier on December 30, 2006.

All were linked to the Arab Spring which Baba said would set events in motion which would bring about the next global conflict.

Baba's predictions have been revisited after another mystic, who accurately foretold Donald Trump's presidency, claims to know the exact date World War 3 will start.

Self-proclaimed 'messenger of God' Horacio Villegas believes nuclear war will break out on the 100th anniversary of the visitation of Our Lady of Fatima.

The clairvoyant claims to have envisioned Trump would win the US election as far back as 2015.

He reportedly predicted the billionaire businessman would become the illuminati king who will bring the world into WW3 .

Chillingly, one of his prophecies appears to have already come true.

Villegas warned the US leader would attack Syria , which took place earlier this month when Trump launched a huge air strike on an airbase in Homs.

He also predicted that it would bring Russia, North Korea and China into the deadly global conflict - something which, if the prophecy is to be believed, may be just WEEKS away.

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Critics however claim that people will twist Baba Vanga's prophecies to make them seem true.

Baba's prediction over 9/11 is said to be from a statement she made in 1989.

She predicted: "Horror, horror! The American brethren will fall after being attacked by the steel birds. The wolves will be howling in a bush, and innocent blood will be gushing."

Baba also said that Europe will be transformed into an Islamic caliphate by 2043, Communism will return by 2076 and there will be war on Mars in 3005.

But she got her prediction for the 1994 World Cup final completely wrong - saying it would be played between "two teams beginning with B", when in fact Brazil beat Italy 3-2 on penalties.

What else did she get right? And what does the future hold according to the mystical seer?

In 1980 the blind prophetess predicted that in August of 1999, Kursk will be covered with water and the whole world will weep over it.

Kursk was a Russian sub that Sank in the Barents Sea on August 12, 2000, killing all aboard.

In 1989 Baba Vanga said: Horror, horror! The American brethren will fall after being attacked by the steel birds. The wolves will be howling in a bush, and innocent blood will be gushing."

On September 11, 2001, planes hijacked by Islamic extremists hit the World Trade Center in New York, killing thousands of people.

According to the prophetess, China will become a world power in 2018.

Shes probably out a few years here as China is already an economic and military powerhouse.

Weve also apparently got a change in the earths orbit to look forward to some time before 2023.

A new energy source will be created and global hunger will start to be eradicated between 2025 and 2028. A manned spacecraft to Venus will be launched.

From 2033 to 2045 the polar ice caps will melt, causing ocean levels to rise. Meanwhile, Muslims rule Europe and the world economy is thriving.

The rise of cloning allows doctors to cure any disease as the body is simply and easily replaced.

The US will launch an attack on Muslim Rome using a climate-based instant freezing weapon.

Between 2072 and 2086 a classless, Communist society will thrive hand in hand with newly-restored nature

A LOT happens from 2170 to 2256, including a Mars colony becoming a nuclear power and demanding independence from the earth, the establishment of an underwater city and the discovery of something terrible during the search for alien life.

Some time between 2262 and 2304 well crack time travel. Meanwhile French guerrillas fight the Muslim authorities in France.

The "secrets of the moon will be unveiled.

From 2341 a series of natural and man-made disasters render our home planet uninhabitable. Humanity escapes to another solar system, but resources are scarce and wars are waged as a result.

Civilization has been destroyed and people live like beasts until a new religion rises to lead us out of the darkness.

From 4302 to 4674 the concepts of evil and hatred have been eliminated, humans are immortal and have assimilated with aliens.

The 340 billion people scattered throughout the universe can talk to God.

In 5079 the universe will end.

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Was blind mystic Baba Vanga's prediction about Syria conflict - Mirror - Mirror.co.uk

Baba Vanga, the blind Nostradamus of the Balkans, made some troubling predictions about World War Three that have sparked the imagination of conspiracy enthusiasts.

The prophetess, who died aged 85 in 1996, is alleged to have made hundreds of predictions about the future of humanity, with an 85 per cent accuracy rate, from her home in Petrich, Bulgaria.

On closer inspection of her predictions courtesy of some creative internet sorts it seems Baba Vanga also warned of conflict in Syria, nuclear war and the demise of the US president.

Her prophecies take on a new gravitas in the tumultuous global climate of recent months, and the persistent threats of nuclear war batted back and forth between North Korean and American administrations.

Vanga, a woman skilled in eloquent vagaries and nonchalant non-sequiturs, foretold that the world would be ravaged by war and transformed into a wasteland almost entirely devoid of any form of life, reports the Mirror.

According to Vanga this would be kick-started by the Arab Spring in 2010 and ensue after a showdown in Syria wherein Muslims would use chemical warfare against Europeans, eventually resulting in the establishment of a caliphate by 2043 with Rome at the centre.

She cited her own (uncorroborated) second sight when predicting that most people would die of skin cancer from chemical weapons a horrific proposition that some fretful observers have compared to the recent sarin gas attack in Syria.

Troubled politicos also jumped on Vangas prediction that the 45th President would be faced with a crisis that would bring the country down.

Vanga, who is hailed in Russia as having paranormal powers of sight, supposedly prophecised 9/11 when she claimed two steel birds would attack the American brethren.

In 1989, she reportedly warned:

Horror, horror! The American brethren will fall after being attacked by the steel birds. The wolves will be howling in a bush, and innocent blood will be gushing.

Some also believe she predicted global warming when she foresaw cold regions will become warm and volcanoes will awaken.

Moreover, Vangas followers say she predicted the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami, warning a huge wave would descend on a big coast, covering people and towns and [causing] everything to disappear under the water.

In a bizarre leap, some have even suggested she predicted Brexit when she said Europe, as we know it, would cease to exist.

While her predictions may take on a posthumous poignancy and play on the tangible global tensions and public fear, Baba actually got her 1994 World Cup guess wrong, saying two teams beginning with B would stand off.

In fact, Brazil beat Italy 3-2 on penalties. Case closed.

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Horocio Villegas has previously accurately predicted Donald Trumps presidency (Picture:Getty Images)

A mystic claims to know exactly what date WW3will begin and we should probably take note because hes accurately predicted Donald Trumps presidency and the US attack on Syria.

Horocio Villegas, who claims to be the messenger of God, believes nuclear war is just round the corner.

The exact date is predicted to be May 13, 2017 which is the 100th anniversary of the visitation of Our lady of Fatima.

The Catholic clairvoyant, who lives in Texas, US, claims to have predicted Trump would win the US election back in 2015, according to the Daily Star .

He also reportedly predicted the businessman would become the illuminati king who would bring the world into WW3.

And just recently he told the Daily Star: Ihad a dream in which I saw balls of fire falling from the sky and hitting the Earth.

Eerily, one of his predictions has already come true, while the most serious appears to bejust weeks away, he claims.

Villegas is convinced that WW3 will break out on the dayOur Lady another name for the Virgin Mary visited Fatima in Portugalfor the first time.

This issaid to havebeen on May 13, 1917 and was allegedly the day that Our Lady warned people that if Russia did not convert to the Catholic faith, God would use the country to wreak havoc on the world.

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Villegas reportedly told thepaper: The main message that people need to know in order be prepared is that between May 13th and October 13 2017, this war will occur and be over with much devastation, shock and death.

However, he warned that there we will several false-flagevents which will take place between April 13 and May 13, and will see attacks carried out to spark conflicts based on false information.

These will reportedly involve Syria and North Korea.

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Mystic who predicted Trump presidency claims to know date of ... - Metro

A US SUBMARINE capable of launching nuclear bombs was filmed heading straight towards North Korea amid growing tensions of World War Three breaking out.

Donald Trump has been urged to strike Kim Jong-uns nuclear supplies before they can reach the US.

He moved devastating Tomahawk missile launchers into firing range of the country just last week and has also sent an armada of warships to the area.

And Trump now appears to be sending a huge submarine to the region.

The US Navy vessel was spotted passing through the Panama Canal an artificial waterway between North and South America yesterday.

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Officials confirmed it was heading into the Pacific Ocean and some believe straight towards North Korea.

Armed soldiers were also pictured pacing across the deck.

A stunned cameraman can be heard saying: Im passing a nuclear submarine, man. Its gigantic.

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Kim Jong-un used the annual "Day of the Sun" parade in Pyongyang to make a chilling display of the country's burgeoning nuclear power and military might

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Trumps forces arent the only ones concerned with the growing aggression from Kim Jong-Un.

China has admitted a war could break out at any time between the countries and only yesterday positioned their deadly new warship just off North Korea.

Vladimir Putin also moved his Russian forces to the border of the tyrannical state.

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North Korea WW3 threat: US nuclear submarine 'heads to Kim's ... - Daily Star

Amid heightened tensions between the US, Russia and Syria, people have been dreading the penultimate consequence, that of a nuclear war. To make things worse, a mystic who had accurately predicted President Trumps victory has now foretold the exact start date of WW3.

Something that none of us wantsto believe, but according to Clairvoyant Horacio Villegas, we are alarmingly close to a disastrous war. According to a report published in the Daily Star, Mystic Horacio Villegas the self-styled messenger of God, prophesied Trump's victory way back in the year 2015.

He said that Trump would be the main reason behind the start of World War 3. He says that WW3 would begin 100th anniversary of Our Lady of Fatimas visitation which falls on May 13th and that Donald Trump will be crowned the Illuminati King.

He also prophesied the world leaders would attack Syria which in reality took place in the form of chemical attack and that this would bring Russia, North Korea and China into the conflict states the report.

Now that some hair-raising detail!

According to his statement, The main message that people need to know in order be prepared is that between May 13th and October 13, 2017, this war will occur and be over with much devastation, shock, and death.

Villegas backs his predictions with those made byby Nostradamus.

Nostradamus had said, Mabus will soon die, and then will come, a horrible undoing of people and animals, at once one will see vengeance, one hundred powers, thirst, famine, when the comet will pass.

In Villegas view the Mabus of our times ishe president of Syria, Assad, who will get bombed and killed and will further worsen the war.

He says that a very devastating false flag or attacks based on false information will occur between 13th April and 13th May which will involve North Korea and Syria.

All of these predictions definitely sounds scary. But do you think it holds water?

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Mr Tillerson accused the Islamic Republic of supporting terrorism, including providing weapons and funding to Hamas and other Palestinian terror groups.

He said: Whether it be assassination attempts, support of weapons of mass destruction, deploying destabilising militias, Iran spends its treasure and time disrupting peace

An unchecked Iran has the potential to travel the same path as North Korea and take the world along with it.

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According to the Secretary of State the 2015 nuclear agreement between Iran and the UN, made under former President Barrack Obama, was a failure that was leading the nation down same the path of North Korea which was also left unchecked.

He said: This deal represents the same failed approach of the past that brought us to the current imminent threat that we face from North Korea.

Earlier this week Iran issued the chilling warning that it needed no one's permission to build more missiles.

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An unchecked Iran has the potential to travel the same path as North Korea and take the world along with it

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Mr Tillerson also criticised Irans continued support of the brutal Assad regime, which the White House has claimed is responsible for a chemical weapons attack on Syrian civilians earlier this this months.

He added: Iran is the worlds leading state sponsor of terrorism, and is responsible for intensifying multiple conflicts and undermining US interests in countries such as Syria, Yemen, Iraq and Lebanon, and continuing to support attacks against Israel.

Speaking about the threat of Iran, the Secretary of State added: The Trump administration has no intention of passing the buck to a future administration on Iran.

The evidence is clear, Irans provocative actions threaten the United States, the region and the world.

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His comments come as the US Defence Secretary, James Mattis, during a week long-tour Middle East also accused Iran of destabilising the region.

Mr Mattis said: Everywhere you look if there is trouble in the region, you find Iran.

"We will have to overcome Iran's efforts to destabilise yet another country and create another militia in their image of Lebanese Hezbollah, he added, but the bottom line is, we are on the right path for it."

Earlier White House spokesman Sean Spicer revealed the President Trump would be reviewing whether to lift sanctions on Iran under the current nuclear deal, which the billionaire had previously described as the worst deal ever negotiated.

Mr Spicer said: "Part of the review is to determine where Iran is in compliance with the deal and to make recommendations to the President on the path forward.

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US warns an 'unchecked Iran' could follow the path of North Korea amid WW3 fears - Express.co.uk

A nuclear bomb strikes an American city, sending a huge fiery mushroom cloud soaring into the sky in a chilling World War 3 simulation aired in North Korea.

The worrying propaganda video was released as tensions continued to rise between Kim Jong-un's secretive country and the US.

The despot used the 'Day of the Sun' festival - marking the birthday of his late grandfather and tha nation's founder, Kim Il-Sung, to show off the strength of the North Korean army.

The disturbing footage shows a rocket, believed to be an Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM), wiping out an unspecified American city.

The sickening video - performance of the Korean State Merited Chorus - also shows the American Stars and Stripes in flames overlapped with an image of a cemetery.

The choir unveiled a new song about the country's missiles which include the words "our proud Hwasong rocket blasts off" and "it flies as quickly as a flash of lightning to challenge imperialism".

North Korea attempted but failed to launch a missile on Sunday, the day after the military parade where what appeared to be new ballistic missiles were displayed.

"The North attempted to launch an unidentified missile from near the Sinpo region this morning but it is suspected to have failed," the South's Office of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a statement.

The US also confirmed the missile test.

Kim Jong-un released a similar propaganda video earlier this year.

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Grainy footage sees a submarine launch the killer missile from the ocean before a fireball slams into Washington sending a mushroom cloud into the sky.

The bizarre four-minute video, titled 'Last Chance', was produced by top military officials in North Korea before being uploaded to Government website DPRK.

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It starts with a backdrop of cheesy 90s techno music showing a montage of clips from the Korean War.

A message on the screen in Korean translates as: If US imperialists move an inch toward us, we will immediately hit them with nukes.

A digitally altered missile is then launched and soars through the sky before hitting the US capital, with the US flag bursting into flames.

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