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In a chilling pronouncement on Monday, August 17, Ali Saeedi, the spokesman for Iran’s Supreme Leader (Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, a Shi’a Muslim) called on Muslim countries to prepare for the coming of the Mahdi. The Mahdi is the prophesized savior of Islam who is believed to return at the end of time to bring a new era of peace.
Saeedi’s statement asserts that the Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is the direct representative of the Mahdi and that other Islamic countries should join forces under an Iranian command. He asserts, “We have to train honest forces that can stop the obstacles that may hinder the coming of the Mahdi like the United States and Israel.”
“Since the armed forces are commanded by the Supreme Leader, they are thus obeying the orders of the Awaited Mahdi.” He continues with an announcement of supremacy stating, “The [Iranian] Revolutionary Guards and the armed forces in Iran hold religious authority to prepare for the appearance of the Mahdi.”
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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is a staunch follower of the Mahdi theology and has been chastised by fellow Iranians for mixing religion into the running of the government.
In a speech given last month, Ahmadinejad made an unprecedented admission that he believes the Mahdi is directing “all the affairs of the country” including its day-o-day politics.
“We must solve Iran’s internal problems as quickly as possible,” Ahmadinejad states. “Time is lacking. A movement has started for us to occupy ourselves with our global responsibilities, which are arriving with great speed.”
On July 12, the Iranian news agency ISNA published a letter written by
Chief of Staff Hassan Firouzabadi to the Shi’ite Messiah, the Hidden Imam. He asked for assistance for the regime, defended the brutality of the Basij against peaceful Iranian demonstrators, and laid blame for the disturbances on the West.
Three are the immediate consequences of Ahmadinejad’s stay in power. This man, as we know all too well, is an “enlightened” radical awaiting the coming of the Mahdi, the Twelfth Imam, and the triumph of Islam via chaos and violence; Ahmadinejad sincerely believes that he is the one called to speed up this development. The first consequence is the need to acknowledge that do-gooding and having a conciliatory attitude with the regime in Tehran will only lead to failure. Obama has been wrong about extending a hand to Tehran, thinking that it would suffice to change things in Iran. The Europeans were just as wrong when they believed that radical and “enlightened” Mahmoud Ahmadinejad would lose at the ballot box to the apparently more moderate Mir-Hossein Mousavi – or as wrong as those who believed that the accusations of election fraud would culminate in a recount favoring not Ahmadinejad but another candidate or repeating the presidential elections.
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The sec4ond problem has to do with Iran’s nuclear ambition. Ahmadinejad is popular among Iranians due largely to his advocacy of the atomic program and nothing can make him think that he must give it up now. He has threatened Israel repeatedly and nothing has happened to him; he has interfered as much as he has wanted in Iraq, where Iran was actually in open warfare against American and British forces and neither Washington nor London did anything against this affront. Iran is notoriously present in Afghanistan, complicating the security of this country and threatening coalition forces due to the aid that Iran renders; yet the Persian country has not suffered any punishment for its deeds. Ahmadinejad has just won a new term in office that has provoked a blood bath; however, all that one can hear is some weak international protests and the great American willingness to enter into talks with him. Why is he going to change now? – particularly when, for the first time, one can observe important policy differences between the White House and the government in Jerusalem.
In fact, during all these days when the world’s attention was centered in the hope of achieving real change in Iran through street demonstrations, Khamenei, Ahmadinejad, and tir people have gone ahead with Iran’s nuclear program as if nothing had happened, even announcing that the Bushehr plant is now finished and ready thanks to Russian aid. According to what we know from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna, the centrifuges have not halted their uranium enrichment process. If everything goes on as today, Iran will have enough enriched uranium to build its first nuclear bomb – if it chooses to do so. And Iran does want to do so.
Originally posted by VinceP1974
I believe that the end-time religion-governmental system that the Bible describes in the End Time is Islam.
The Biblical End Time Revived Empire is the Reestablished Islamic Caliphate
When he comes he will bring peace and justice to the whole world by implementing Sharia everywhere and erasing from the world all disbelief and all other religion (including Christianity and Jews)
A precondition for Allah sending him is that the world is in a profoundly destructive conflict and massive international devastation.
Originally posted by john124
What Ahmadinejad says is always absolute bull#!
He would say anything to deter Iranian's from the real issues of regime brutality and criminality.
If this regime starts a war or if Israel starts a war, then the people of Iran and middle eastern civilians would be the biggest victims.
IMO the only chance to prevent a war is for the people of Iran to speed up their underground movements so that the regime collapses not in 6 months, but in 6 weeks. Is this possible?? We'll have to wait and see!
Originally posted by infinite
And if you read Sharia Law, minority religions are protected. Have to pay taxes to the government though. Happened under the Ottoman Empire. When Saladin conquered Jerusalem, he allowed Christians and Jews to attend sites of worships.
Originally posted by VinceP1974
So yeah.. you're going to tell me that I'm wrong? haha, another ignorant yet arrogant fool
No living Christian or Jew will have a religious mandate to kill anyone.
So yeah.. you're going to tell me that I'm wrong? haha, another ignorant yet arrogant fool
Originally posted by infinite
Originally posted by VinceP1974
So yeah.. you're going to tell me that I'm wrong? haha, another ignorant yet arrogant fool
No, going to tell you that religion should be banned. God isn't real and followers have significant psychotic disorders if they believe the end is nigh. Waiting for the destruction of society, including wars and rebellions, should be a criminal offence.
Sorry, but you are dangerous to society.
Originally posted by triune
reply to post by VinceP1974
So yeah.. you're going to tell me that I'm wrong? haha, another ignorant yet arrogant fool
Yeah, your right. You are wrong. When its all said and done, the curse of ALL organised religion will be removed from the face of the earth, and mankind will have a spiritual knowledge direct from within.
No longer will man need someone else to tell him what to beleive.
THANK GOD.