USA continues to bomb Iran, Iran threatens Arab nations’ water desalination plants: What about Israel?

Percentage of drinking water from desalination:

—Bahrain 100%
—Qatar 99%
—Kuwait 90%
—Saudi Arabia 70%
—UAE 42%

—Iran 3%

If Gulf countries are willing to allow the US to use their territory to attack Iranian desalination plants, then prepare for the consequences..

— Iran News 24 (@IRanMediaco) July 18, 2026

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Here is information on the USA-Iran war:

U.S. strikes Iran and Houthis threaten Saudi Arabia shipping as mediators push 10-day ceasefire

July 21, 2026

The U.S. completed a fresh round of strikes against Iran … as Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthis threatened to impose a naval blockade on Saudi Arabia, potentially opening a new front in the Middle East conflict.The latest cycle of tit-for-tat strikes comes amid reports that regional mediators have presented Washington and Tehran with a proposal for a 10-day ceasefire, a pitch that could put last month’s memorandum of understanding back on track. …

“U.S. forces struck Iranian military command centers, maritime capabilities, missile and drone launch sites, and air defense systems to degrade Iran’s ability to continue attacking commercial vessels flowing through the Strait of Hormuz,” Centcom said in a statement.

It added that commercial vessel transits through the strategically vital waterway were continuing. Centcom forces, the statement said, had facilitated the transit of around 900 commercial vessels and 450 million barrels of crude oil through the strait since early May. …

Iran, meanwhile, attacked a tanker in the Strait of Hormuz early Tuesday, forcing its crew to abandon the vessel as it seeks to tighten its control over the waterway, one that typically handles around 20% of the world’s oil traffic.

Kuwait said Iran had attacked several of its power generation and water desalination plants on Monday, causing a fire at multiple facilities. https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/21/us-iran-war-trump-hormuz-houthis.html

US strikes leave 10,000 Iranians without water as Kuwait desalination plant burns

July 18, 2026

The escalating conflict between the United States and Iran is taking a growing toll on civilian infrastructure, with Iranian officials saying overnight US strikes destroyed a desalination facility supplying drinking water to about 10,000 people.

Hamzeh Pour, chief executive of the Hormozgan Water and Wastewater Company, said US strikes hit desalination pumps and electrical infrastructure in Bunji village, in Jask, cutting off water supplies to 20 villages.

“The supply of drinking water to 20 villages with a population of approximately 10,000 people has been completely disrupted,” Pour was quoted by Iran’s Tasnim News Agency as saying.

Pour called the strikes “a series of crimes and terrorist attacks”, adding that a seawater pumping station and a power transformer serving the Bunji desalination plant had been “completely destroyed”.

“These villages are facing a severe water shortage,” he added. https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/us-strikes-leave-10000-iranians-without-water-kuwait-desalination-plant-burns

As the tweet at the beginning of this post shows, Iran has pointed out that Arab nations in its area are much more dependent on desalination for water than it is–and it made a threat. At threat that it has carried out as Iran has again hit out at one of those plants:

Iran war live: Kuwait desalination, power plants damaged in fiery attack

21 July 2026

• A desalination facility and power plants caught on fire and suffered serious damage in Kuwait after new Iranian strikes targeted the crucial facilities, along with areas of Bahrain and Jordan, following a 10th-consecutive night of US bombing.
• “Massive fires” broke out on two tankers that “took an unsafe route” in the Strait of Hormuz, says Iran’s Revolutionary Guard. …

The United States is trying to make sure that the Iranian Republican Guard and military doesn’t have the ability to target international shipping. So that is why a lot of the targets are concentrated on military and strategic places.

However, we’re stuck in limbo. Ten days of attacks and the situation hasn’t changed.

And many on Capitol Hill are beginning to question if US President Donald Trump is being given accurate information by the Pentagon, given that he has so often said that Iran is no longer a military threat, but we’re now ten days in to trying to quash that military threat.

And the difficulty they have now is that this is an ongoing war, and Trump is being dragged into something that he campaigned against: the ‘forever wars’ in the Middle East. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2026/7/21/iran-war-live-us-launches-10th-night-of-strikes-tehran-attacks-kuwait

Notice the following part of Isaiah 22:

11 You also made a reservoir between the two walls
For the water of the old pool.
But you did not look to its Maker,
Nor did you have respect for Him who fashioned it long ago. (Isaiah 22:11)

It looks like this could be a prophecy related to the destruction of water supplies, like desalination plants in the Middle East, like in Israel.

As far as Iran, the USA, and Israel goes, Michael Snyder posted the following:

Trump Is Considering Taking The War Against Iran To The Next Level, And Israel Is Preparing To Join The Fight

July 20, 2026

It appears that we could soon witness a very serious escalation in the Middle East. As you will see below, President Trump is strongly considering “full-scale military operations” against Iran that would be “far more intense and extensive” than we have seen over the past couple of weeks. Since fighting has resumed, the U.S. has primarily been hitting targets in southern Iran along the Persian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz. This obviously hasn’t moved the Iranians in the right direction at all. Instead, the Iranians have escalated matters by targeting civilian infrastructure, and now the Bab el-Mandeb Strait has been closed by the Houthis. So now Trump has a decision to make. He could back down and try more diplomacy, or he could take the war against Iran to the next level.

According to Fox News, Trump is expected to make the decision on whether or not “to expand military operations against Iran” soon…

President Donald Trump is expected to decide in the coming days whether to expand military operations against Iran and return to full-scale combat, senior U.S. officials told Fox News on Monday.

The officials stressed that no final decision has been made.

If Trump orders a return to full-scale military operations, the campaign would be “far more intense and extensive” than the nine consecutive nights of U.S. airstrikes that began July 7, which have primarily targeted Iranian military assets linked to operations around the Strait of Hormuz, the officials said.

Preparations for an expanded campaign are already well underway. …

If Trump does pull the trigger, the Israelis are ready to go too. …

Needless to say, the Iranians will retaliate. …

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Iranian missiles “have gotten faster and deadlier”, and everyone is wondering how this suddenly occurred. …

The zealots that run Iran do not see the world the same way that westerners see the world.

Their theology actually causes them to look forward to chaos and war.

No matter what happens, they are convinced that they will be victorious in the end and that their version of Islam will conquer the globe.

If they die, they believe that they will be rewarded in the afterlife as martyrs.

If they live, they feel like they have been given the privilege of carrying on the fight. https://endoftheamericandream.com/trump-is-considering-taking-the-war-against-iran-to-the-next-level-and-israel-is-preparing-to-join-the-fight/

Yes, Iranian leaders believe that their version of Islam will prevail for many reasons and that they will basically win.

The fighting is not over.

The Book of Isaiah points to an Iranian confederation that will cause great damage to Jerusalem (Isaiah 22:6-9) and we are getting closer to the fulfillment of that prophecy. For some time, I have believed it was likely that one or more Iranian ballistic missiles, such as its Khorramshahr, may be the instrument to cause damage to at least part of Jerusalem that will be great.

Israeli involvement will be a factor in the prophesied damage to Jerusalem.

Those living in Jerusalem should consider evacuating.

Here is some information on Iran in my free eBook Islamic and Biblical Prophecies for the 21st Century:

Iranians are Persians and not Arabs. Here is something about their ancestors:

Iranians … are a mixed people of the remnants of Media and Elam and other ancestors of Semitic and Hamitic stock.[i]

Iran’s closest ally is Syria. While some Arab nations have made peace with Israel, Iran and Syria have not.

Notice the following hadiths:

“At the end of Time there will be a trial in which people will be sorted in a way similar to that in which gold is sorted from metal.”

“So do not rebuke the people of Syria but rebuke the evil people among them because amongst them is Al Abdal.

A flood is about to be sent down upon the people of Syria which will disperse their groups in such a way that if foxes attacked they would be beaten.

At that time a man from the Family of my House will come under three banners; between twelve and fifteen thousand and their password is – ‘Die, die.’ Then, there will come seven banners and under each will be one man seeking the kingdom.

Allah will kill all of them and restore unity and favors upon the hearts of Muslims, and those who were far come close.” [ii]

“Al Mahdi is a man from my children. His face is like a glittering star, his skin is the color of an Arab, and his body is like that of Israel.

He will fill the earth with justice just as it will have been filled by injustice, and the dwellers of Heaven and Earth will be pleased with his Caliphate.” [iii]

Although one of the hadiths above used the term Israel in a non-negative manner, in January 2021, Iranian state media ISNA reported:

Iranian lawmakers have submitted a bill seeking the government by law to commit to Israel’s destruction by the year 2040,” [iv]

The Bible points to Iran (Elam below) and its ally Syria (Kir below) causing damage to Jerusalem of the nation of Israel:

⁵ For it is a day of trouble and treading down and perplexity By the Lord God of hosts In the Valley of Vision — Breaking down the walls And of crying to the mountain.

⁶ Elam bore the quiver With chariots of men and horsemen, And Kir uncovered the shield. ⁷ It shall come to pass that your choicest valleys Shall be full of chariots, And the horsemen shall set themselves in array at the gate.

⁸ He removed the protection of Judah. You looked in that day to the armor of the House of the Forest; ⁹ You also saw the damage to the city of David, That it was great; And you gathered together the waters of the lower pool. ¹⁰ You numbered the houses of Jerusalem, And the houses you broke down To fortify the wall.

¹¹ You also made a reservoir between the two walls For the water of the old pool. But you did not look to its Maker, Nor did you have respect for Him who fashioned it long ago. ¹² And in that day the Lord God of hosts Called for weeping and for mourning, For baldness and for girding with sackcloth. (Isaiah 22:5-12)

The Bible tells that after Tiglath-Pileser king of Assyria took over Damascus, he moved Syrians to Kir (2 Kings 16:9-10). While this does not mean that Kir must (or must only) be a reference to Syria, the fact that Syria is an ally of Iran is interesting. The Bible also has the expression “the Syrians from Kir” (Amos 9:7), which is basically confirmation that Kir of Isaiah 22 would include Syrians. The prophecy that “Kir uncovered the shield” suggests that Syria will have somehow reduced the effectiveness of Israel’s ‘Iron Dome’ and/or other defensive equipment the nation of Israel will use. The Bible additionally tells of a time when Kir will be destroyed (Isaiah 15:1b) and also says that Syria’s capital Damascus will be destroyed (Isaiah 17:1). The “House of the Forest” was anciently located in Lebanon (e.g. 1 Kings 7:2, 10:17,21; 2 Chronicles 9:16,20 [v])–which is where Hezbollah is based out of.

Here is the Catholic Public Domain Version translation of Isaiah 22:8:

⁸ And the covering of Judah will be exposed, and in that day, you will see the weaponry of the forest house. (Isaiah 22:8, CPDV)

A way for Judah to “see the weaponry of the forest house” would be a massive attack by Hezbollah. In Isaiah 22: 8, “Judah” is a reference to those in the land commonly called Israel–God will allow Israel to be attacked.

In Isaiah 22:9, understand that “the damage to the city of David” is a reference to at least part of Jerusalem, which is the “city of David” (cf. 2 Kings 9:28).

Further notice that Isaiah’s prophecy states that the damage will be great. Also notice part of the reason will be because Judah (modern nation of Israel) would “not look to its Maker,” nor “have respect for Him,” that God will allow this. Just relying on Israel’s own military will not be enough.

It appears there will likely be a regional war involving Israel, who has threatened to take preemptive attacks to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons[vi] as well as retaliatory attacks because of a massive arial attack by Iran announced on April 14, 2024.[vii] Israel has promised retaliation, with Iran’s then President Ebrahim Raisi asserting that even the “tiniest” invasion of its territory would bring a “massive and harsh” response. … and that if Iran had wanted to carry out a bigger attack, “nothing would remain from the Zionist regime.”[viii] While Israel did make what could be considered a tiny response, Iran suggested that the matter was now closed.[ix] This author does not believe that, but instead believes that Iran and its allies are biding their time until they launch a massive attack.

Scripture points to an attack with Iranian involvement that will cause great damage to Israel. Despite its posturing, relative military strength, and ability to damage Israel and others, Iran will be somehow effectively neutralized (cf. Ezekiel 32:24). This could perhaps be from an attack involving Israel and other nations and/or internal civil unrest — this could also include electromagnetic (EMP) or similar weapons used against Iran (Jeremiah 49:34-39).

Before going further, certain Protestant and Jewish prophecy watchers believe that Iran, along with Russia, will invade the nation of Israel before Jesus returns based on the 38^th chapter of the Book of Ezekiel, which is also related to Gog and Magog (Ezekiel 38:2-6). But that prophecy is NOT for this age. Notice something Russia and Iran are prophesied to say:

¹¹ You will say, ‘I will go up against a land of unwalled villages; I will go to a peaceful people, who dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates’ —  ¹² to take plunder and to take booty, to stretch out your hand against the waste places that are again inhabited, and against a people gathered from the nations, who have acquired livestock and goods, who dwell in the midst of the land. ¹³ Sheba, Dedan, the merchants of Tarshish, and all their young lions will say to you, ‘Have you come to take plunder? Have you gathered your army to take booty, to carry away silver and gold, to take away livestock and goods, to take great plunder?’”‘ (Ezekiel 38:11-13)

The tiny nation called Israel does not have any significant amount of gold,[x] nor is it filled with peaceful people who dwell safely, hence the Ezekiel 38 prophecy is not for this age (it is post millennial per Revelation 20:7-8). Islam tends to use Gog and Magog as representations of evil (Sura 18:94).

For this age, understand that Iran has weapons that can cause damage, including terror. Biblically, we see that terror is associated with Elam:

²⁴ There is Elam and all her multitude, All around her grave, All of them slain, fallen by the sword, Who have gone down uncircumcised to the lower parts of the earth, Who caused their terror in the land of the living; Now they bear their shame with those who go down to the Pit. (Ezekiel 32:24)

Furthermore, the USA itself, as well as the State of Israel, are vulnerable to EMP (electromagnetic pulse) type attacks and even items such as biological weapons, chemical weapons, terrorism, nuclear weapons, dirty bombs, etc. which Iran and Syria could use in a conflict.

But should this attack occur, this would NOT be the final destruction of the USA. Prophetically, Iran would not end up faring well (cf. Ezekiel 32:24-25).

Because of prophecies related to the destruction of Syria’s capital Damascus (Isaiah 17:1), damage to Iran from multiple nations (Jeremiah 49:34-39), and great damage to be done to Jerusalem (Isaiah 22:8-9), one or more of those events may well precede the ‘peace deal’ of Daniel 9:27.

After this author originally wrote basically the paragraph above, he ran across the following:

There is an 800-year-old rabbinic commentary known as Yalkut Shimoni, which he translates: “Paras (Persia-Iran) will be the dread of humanity. The world’s leaders will be frustrated in their futile efforts to save what they can, but to no avail. The people of Israel will also be petrified by the impending danger. And HaShem (God) will say to us, ‘Why are you afraid? All of this I have done in order to bring you the awaited redemption. And this redemption will not be like the redemption from Egypt, which was followed by suffering. This redemption will be absolute, followed with peace.’”[xi]

Yes, presuming we see great damage to Jerusalem, this would seem to set the stage for the peace deal of Daniel 9:27, which is consistent with the above old Jewish commentary.

Interestingly, there is a prophecy that the ‘Great Monarch’ of Greco-Roman prophecy will arise after Iran (Persia) causes damage:

Oracle of Baalbek: And the name of this King is concealed among the nations; and his name is similar to the last day, and it is written from the 18th letter. And when he will receive his empire, his name will be Anastasius, (Anastasois). This king is bald headed, handsome … In his day the Persians will rise up and destroy the cities of the East … [xii]

The above, which is believed to have been written over a thousand years ago during the Byzantine reign, is a prediction of a leader to rise up that many Greco-Roman Catholic writings look forward to, called the Great Monarch. He looks to be similar to the one that the Bible refers to as the Beast, the final King of the North of Daniel 11. Notice the belief that he will be around when the Persians–the Iranians–have destroyed cities in the East. Jerusalem was east (as well as south) of the old Byzantium Empire. This looks to be in alignment with Isaiah 22:6-9.

Notice something else involving Syrians and the Palestinians, who Iran supports:

⁸ The Lord sent a word against Jacob, And it has fallen on Israel. ⁹ All the people will know — Ephraim and the inhabitant of Samaria — … ¹¹ Therefore the Lord shall set up The adversaries of Rezin against him, And spur his enemies on, ¹² The Syrians before and the Philistines behind; And they shall devour Israel with an open mouth. (Isaiah 9:8-9, 11-12)

In addition to the nation of Israel, the USA (prophetic Samaria) and its British descended allies (prophetic Ephraim) will have more terrorist attacks. Syrian, Palestinian (called Philistines in Isaiah 9:12) and some other refugees and other migrants within their borders are a potential terrorist problem (Jeremiah 15:6-8; Ezekiel 21:12, 32:24). The Bible clearly warns that there will be “terror within” as (Deuteronomy 32:25).

Isaiah and Ezekiel look to be prophesying problems from Syrians, Palestinians, and Iranians. And this would be expected to include terrorism. And this is also consistent with prophecies in Psalm 83.

In Ezekiel 38, Iran is prophesied to be involved in a battle on the side of Russia and China. But that prophecy will not be fulfilled for over 1000 years.

That said, in 2024, Iran joined the BRICS alliance, which is dominated by Russia, India, and China. All of those appear to be biblical “kings of the east” that will be involved in the gathering at Armageddon (Revelation 16:12-16).

Furthermore, despite Iran’s preference for dealing with Europe over the United States of America, Iran looks to be one of the nations that will align with Russia and China to conquer the Babylonian European Beast power (Jeremiah 50:41-43).

Iran will be involved in the fulfillment of numerous prophecies.

[i] Stump K. South Asia in Prophecy. Plain Truth, July/August 1986, p. 5

[ii] This hadith was reported by Imam Ali in the references of Ahmad, Abu Dawood, Ibn Majah and At-Tabarani. Accessed 11/06/23 https://www.muhammadanreality.com/ImamMahdiSignsfortheSavoir.htm#Top

[iii] These hadiths were narrated by Hudhayfah and are found in the references of Abu Nuaym, At-Tabarani, and Abu Amru Ad Dani. Accessed 11/06/23 https://www.muhammadanreality.com/ImamMahdiSignsfortheSavoir.htm#Top

[iv] Iran Parliament to debate bill calling for Israel’s destruction by 2040. i24news, January 6, 2021

[v] Though many scholars claim Jerusalem was the site of ‘the house of the forest,’ additional details as to reasons why Lebanon should be considered as the location are in the following paper: A Discourse on the House of the Forest of Lebanon, pp: 111-134 in Bunyan J. Stebbing H. The Entire Works of John Bunyan, Volume 4. Virtue and Company, 1860

[vi] Egozi A. With Netanyahu back in charge, is a solo Israeli strike against Iran in the cards? Breaking Defense, November 08, 2022

[vii] Frankel J. Israel says it will retaliate against Iran, despite the risks. ABC, April 16, 2024

[viii] The Latest | Netanyahu says Israel will decide how to respond as Iran warns against retaliation. Associated Pres, April 17, 2024

[ix] Hafezi P, Mackenzie J. Tehran plays down reported Israeli attacks, signals no retaliation. Reuters, April 19, 2024

[x] Kopf S. Jerusalem of Gold. Jerusalem Post, February 16, 2011

[xi] Rabbi: Blood moons mean ‘messianic advancement’. World News Daily, August 30, 2015

[xii] Tzima Otto, p. 64