eerie parallels between the current Iran crisis and the 1983 docudrama "Threads"

After the current situation in Iran really blew up, I remembered some scenes from the 1983 BBC docudrama "Threads". In the first few segments of the show, we learn that there is a revolution or coup in Iran, and that the Russians are accusing the Americans of starting it. In response to the coup, apparently to "restore order", the Soviets send their military into the country, which prompts a harsh response from the West.

While this is ongoing, we learn during a scene involving a family's son who wants to marry his girlfriend that "it's a hell of a time to start a family in the middle of a recession". Just like today, there was a severe recession in the early 1980s.

You can watch the entire show on Youtube: [link to www.youtube.com]

This also dovetails with a thread I started earlier dealing with the possible prophetic implications of Ahmadinejad's reelection: [link to www.godlikeproductions.com]

Finally, there is this prophecy from Erna Stieglitz (source: [link to www.newprophecy.net] Stieglitz):

The state of technology opens the possibility for the first time to control the entire world from a power center. During this time, in the West ease and laziness, prosperity and luxury are paramount, while the East prepares itself, raises its peoples to the great task, provides for a new generation of weapons. After the laws of the classic military strategy, the Russians must strengthen their flanks, before they against Western Europe attack.
The southern flank is comprised by Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Turkey, Greece, and Yugoslavia. The northern flank is comprised by Finland, Sweden, Norway, and Denmark. Up to the Bavarian boundary, a Russian expanse trace train is brought up.

In summer, probably in the month of July if the OIL REGIONS (Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Persian Gulf) are already in rather firm Russian hands, will occur the invasion by Russia upon (parts of) the south and north flanks: against Turkey, Greece, Yugoslavia, and Scandinavia.
By the end of July, Soviet anger will quickly shift against Western Europe. The first front of Western resistance is destroyed at the beginning of August. Armies of Russian tanks invade France, around Lyon, and little later in Ulm. Russian elite units attack Alaska in middle August. In Europe, it comes to the Abwurf of a radioactively radiating yellow wall. Prague becomes a nuclear wasteland. Approximately around the same time the Russian tank units of the northern wedge in Westfalen become almost entirely destroyed.

Returning to the start of this discourse: after the quick occupation of all military bases in Scandinavia, a second attack against Turkey follows. There and in Iran a great tank battle takes place. The Russian then strives to advance as quickly as possible through the Balkan Peninsula to the Adriatic Sea.

Something to chew on.....