Exposure of Movie Predicting Shiite Messiah Causes Turmoil Within Iranian Regime
Ever since I exposed the Iranian documentary The Coming is Upon Us — which promises the imminent coming of the twelfth Shiite imam, Imam Mahdi — a heated argument has been taking place within the Iranian establishment. There is panic and concern over the coverage of the movie in the West.
The film reveals the regime’s true ideology and plans for the world. As I stated in my release, Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei — President Ahmadinejad’s top adviser and chief of staff — was directly involved with this project, and he was the first one to be sacrificed over the movie’s publicity in the West. Ahmadinejad, who had strongly supported Mashaei, had no option but to fire him from that position, which was announced on April 8.
One day later, Mashaei denied any involvement with the makers of the movie, though he did not deny all of its facts.
However, the objection to this movie came not only from those opposing Ahmadinejad but also from some hardline radicals, including Hossein Shariatmadari — the managing editor of Kayhan, Iran’s major state newspaper. He lambasted everyone, claiming that now the enemy (the West) is using this video to weaken Iran by showing the intimacies of their sacred beliefs to the world.
The Iranian regime never intended for the documentary to be made public. Reports indicate that funds for its production came directly from the Revolutionary Guards: they intended to distribute it en masse throughout the Middle East to incite further uprisings, while calling for the unification of Arabs to overthrow U.S.-backed governments and promising the destruction of Israel and the imminent coming of the Shiite messiah.
The revelations in this movie have even caused the Grand Ayatollah Sistani in Iraq to show concern, as he has long opposed the radicalism coming out of Iran. Said Sistani:
The analysis for the timing of The Coming of the last Imam is quite concerning. These analyses could weaken the very belief of Muslims. Such activities should not take place in Iran. … This is very worrisome.
They know they looks nuts…
The concern of any ultra-religious authority is not “What if he is a false prophet?” but “What if he is the real thing?”
So that makes everything clear. The Iranian authorities actually LOVE the movie, but are very unhappy that it has fallen into enemy hands.
That is the part I don’t get – they were going to distribute it widely and somehow it was never to come to the attention of their enemies. Those are two mutually exclusive ideas.
Talk about engaging in magical thinking.
jaafar, of course you are correct.
Be that as it may, what should be of gravest concern-especially to Israel-is that the Twelvers are proceeding apace, albeit a little more circumspectly than before.
Therefore, above all else, Israel’s leadership MUST be ready to pre-empt them, otherwise a second Holocaust is a guarantee.
While the Islamic nazis can create mayhem and destruction without WMD’s, the death and destruction will be unthinkable once their bombs are operational.
MAD will NEVER deter the mad mullahs, they seek the coming armaggedon with a vengeance.
Thus, pre-emption is the ONLY option, regardless of how many get caught in the crossfire.The blood of their people will be on their messianic heads!!
As noted before, liberals will just ignore & laugh at it. Yet, it truly does show the danger & evils of this kind of radical Islam. Danger!
Thanks to dithering, Michael Ledeen’s hope of liberating Iran from Khameini, Ahmadinezhad, and the collection of deformed souls, scoundrels, scalawags, and similar ilk, is postponed.
If the deformed souls point to the House of Saud as the enemy, it would be
enough to get the heat off of them.
Also, take a look at “God’s war on terror” by Walid Shoebat.
It reminds me vaguely of the Japanese and Nazi propaganda films of WWII with a touch of the Jehovah’s Witnesses. Squinty looks like a fool no matter what. I would suggest also to read the classic Psychological Warfare by Paul M. Linebarger to understand what they (and others) are trying to do.
You may not believe in Santa Claus , but how many celebrate Christmas ? That is the danger , a mod mentality takes over and this one has WMDs
The difference being that there’s no evidence for Santa Claus, and plenty of evidence for Jesus Christ.
Please do not compare the two. Thank you.
After the Moslems have done what they said they would do, Jesus Christ WILL return, put an end to their religion and government, and throw their “god” into a prison for a thousand years.
You’ve got that right!
Took a look at this video and it is truly a visit to crazytown; a low, low budget version of “The Triumph of the Will.”
Straight jackets and Thorazine all around for this crowd and, if they believe this crap–and there seems to be every reason to believe that they do–then they are extremely dangerous, as if we didn’t know that already, and I wouldn’t put anything past them. They are bat shit crazy and soon to be in possession of nuclear weapons; a fatal combination.
It reminded me of the apocalyptic exegisis filmstrips fed to evangelical youth when I was in high school.
The family resemblance was comic, embarrassing, and mildly alarming.
This is why deterrence will not work with Iran. If they get a deliverable atom bomb, they will use it.
Note: “deliverable” means “fits reasonably well into a shipping container or innocuous vessel hold.”
Air freight for nukes is so 1950s.
–JC
http://vimeo.com/16779150
These loons are going to get a lot of people killed and by far the vast majority of them will be Iranian. The Iranian people probably understand that this is where this Twelfth Imam death cult nonsense is going to take them.
Keep up your excellent reporting, Reza. You are in our prayers.
The most important piece of information to be released — done by one man working alone. It puts our entire CIA to shame.
You have outdone yourself this time, Baradar. You deserve the highest civilian medal of honor (which clearly won’t be given until our next President becomes elected).
Western headline: 13 “rebels” accidentally killed in airstrike in Libya
Real headline: 31 Persians hung, tortured to death, or stoned EVERY DAY in Iran
Aside: Ron Arad seen alive last year in Evin Prison, Tehran
“Prevention is the only cure”: Stuxnet only held off these dogs-of-war for a short while. Alas, an active Ahmadinejad sympathizer squats facing Mecca in his Offal Office as we speak… probably there’s a window of no more than 18 – 24 months to confront these death-eating Gauleiters, and hit ‘em very hard.
How do we propose to respond when, not if, Iran attempts to detonate a nuclear bomb over Israel?
Iran will never drop a nuclear bomb on Israel as it will make Jerusalem uninhabitable and destroy all the Islamic holy sites, so it will have to take Israel with tanks and hand to hand fighting!
I did view the show, and found it kind of comical as simplistic, and kind of pathetic.
However, I kind of think that, a great problem with all this Islamic take-over stuff is that, none of it appears to recognize the added impulse from Western sources, and for example, the power which the same administrative evil granted the Nazis over women, sees the same benefit in our time, but on a much higher gradient; and with particularity, notice the amount and extent of violence of policemen against their wives and consorts.
In the homogeneous administrative state, that will not be nearly so reportable, or perhaps, even necessary—will it? And, what man wouldn’t like a little more respect, just here-and-there—know what I mean? Well, with Islam, you get it—get it?
And the women can be happier, too—right?
It would be a mistake to dismiss this film because of its cheesy, high school/college kid, laptop in a basement production values, the male and female presenters who look like a used car salesman and a young, slim, knock-off of the Internet’s “Mother Angelica,” their bad delivery, on Ahmadinejad in a suit and open collared shirt, or the the very old Iranian leaders in funny turbans and robes waving to the “rent a fanatic” Muslin crowds, and amateurish special effects.
The key here is the ideas they are selling–not how ineptly they might be being sold–and what the officials in Iran who have control over their current military forces, the terrorists and irregulars Iran bankrolls, equips, trains and controls, officials who will have control of nuclear weapons once they get them, think. Since those top leaders apparently bankrolled and allowed this film to be produced, at least some apparently believe that the “End Times,” are upon us, and the final Victory of Islam that Allah has commanded and prophesied, is about to occur.
Moreover, at least some of these top Iranian religious, political, and military leaders are “Twelvers,” who apparently believe that the key to this final Victory over all the Earth and its peoples, over the Jews, Israel, and all other unbelievers, is the “reemergence”of the 12th Imam into our world which, as Twelvers, they believe can only happen when the entire world is convulsed with wide-spread, enormously violent and destructive wars, bloodshed, and chaos. And, apparently, they see it as their role to cause just such intense, violent, world-wide war, bloodshed and chaos, to assure and hasten the day of the 12th Imam’s return.
Thus, it is on the message and on its possible concrete, real world effects and ramifications that we should always keep our focus, rather than on the inept, cheesy way that this message was presented.
When the entire world is convulsed with wide-spread, enormously violent and destructive wars, bloodshed, and chaos, will that, assure and hasten the day—as Earth first! says—”. . . . and, the footprint of man will be erased from the earth.”? Are the Earth first!ers also, Mohamedans? Fellow travelers? Or, what? And how many beside, . . . Jimmy Carter insisted on Global 2000—could cutesy, cuddly Jimmy Carter be a closet Mohamedan? Why does everybody want to kill so many of everybody just so’s we can get the women where we want ‘em?
In the context of this film about the immanent “reemergence” of the 12th Imam, the violence, war, chaos and bloodshed that will precipitate his reemergenc, and just how fanatical Iranian religious and political leaders could be in pursuit of this reemergence, I want to call attention to a little known tactic used by the Iranians during the Iran-Iraq War that illustrates, very well, just how fanatical and ruthless they can be.
The Iranians did not have anywhere near the resources or professional military forces that Iraq did, and therefore needed to conserve them, and to use their limited numbers of professional soldiers only when absolutely necessary. So, Ayatollah Khomeini and the religious leadership bypassed conventional military doctrines and tactics and devised the tactic of using the Basiji, founded by them in 1979 as a popular Muslim militia composed of children and teenagers, male and female, ages 9 to 18, to clear away Iraq minefields, so that the Iranian’s scarce professional soldiers could advance over them.
The method was this. Many thousands of young children/teenagers—both boys and girls–were lured into volunteering or forced to volunteer, sold a bill of goods, whipped up into a religious frenzy, given a “religious” pep talk about how, if they died in the Holy War against the Iraqis they would go immediately to Paradise, each was given a symbolic plastic “key to heaven” to wear around his neck, then these Basiji “volunteers” were roped together and driven across Iraqi minefields, so that they would detonate the mines by stepping on them. It is reported the professional Iranian soldiers were so disturbed by the blown up corpses of these children that they saw as the advanced over the now cleared minefields that later Basijis were told not to step on the earth but to roll over it and, since they were wrapped in thick robes, the resultant explosion would usually not scatter their body parts so widely (see the following articles asserting the truth of the Iranians use of these tactics at http://www.iranmilitaryforum.net/index.php?topic=7129.0v , http://www.matthiaskuentzel.de/contents/ahmadinejads-world, and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basij (since Wiki can be modified at will it is likely that the facts have been “toned down” and “modified” to be somewhat more favorable to Iran)).
Does that tell you just how crazy, fanatical, and ruthless the Twelvers/Mullas could/will be capable of being when they get their hands on nuclear weapons, and how likely they are—blinded by religious fanaticism, the vision of the return of the 12th Imam, and the ultimate victory of Islam over all the world–to “act rationally,” and to really care whether starting a war results in their ultimate annihilation?
I note that the Basiji are still around, still controlled by the Mullas and the Revolutionary Guard in Iran, and are the ones singling out, beating, and arresting women and others who they search out who are not obeying Shari’a law in their dress or behavior.