In fact, in March 2022, Ayatollah Golpayegani, the head of the Office of the Supreme Leader, The Emergence of the Cult of Mahdi asserted support for Putin’s invasion of Ukraine and described it as a “prelude to the reappearance of the Lord of the Age The aftermath of Iran’s 2009 anti-regime protests, triggered (Imam Mahdi).” by the rigging of that year’s presidential elections, would 10 . [...] For example, Ayatollah Mohammad “The IRGC is one of the tools for paving the way for the Ali Mousavi Jazayeri, the supreme leader’s representative to emergence of the Imam of the Age (Mahdi) in the field of a Khuzestan Province, declared that “the presence of ISIS and regional and international awakening, and the IRGC Quds the followers of the Umayyads in Iraq as well as the creation of Force play. [...] S in regional ground for the emergence of the Imam of the Age.” Iraq is a barrier to the reappearance of Imam Mahdi and that In fact, this became one of the main rallying calls for IRGC the “Middle East must change.” The clerical regime’s appetite and Basij volunteers to pick up arms to fight in Syria and Iraq for changing the international order also began to surface as “Defenders of the Holy Shi. [...] Indeed, the opposition of some of Iran’s Persian Gulf states must be in the hands of the Yemeni forces clerical establishment toward the superstitious nature of the and followers of Imam Mahdi.” radical form of Mahdism that emerged during the Ahmadinejad period had restricted the mainstreaming of this doctrine in the Mahdism and the Eradication of Israel Guard. [...] The IRGC must “prepare for the army of Imam of IRGC’s Intelligence Organization, asserted during a speech to the Age, which wants to fight all the centers of power and the IRGC’s Basij members in 2015, “Observers must remove international corruption.” According to this doctrine, however, the obstacles to the emergence of the Imam of the Age, the this does not mean “because the Imam of the Age will.
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