{"id":2821,"date":"2011-03-28T11:06:23","date_gmt":"2011-03-28T11:06:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=2821"},"modified":"2011-03-28T11:06:23","modified_gmt":"2011-03-28T11:06:23","slug":"the_basis_for_iranian_foreign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=2821","title":{"rendered":"The Basis For Iranian Foreign Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbn.com\/cbnnews\/world\/2011\/March\/Iranian-Regime-Video-Says-Mahdi-is-Near-\/\">CBN News<\/a>&nbsp;posted an article today about a video produced by the Iranian government stating that the current Middle East chaos is evidence the the Mahdi (the Twelfth Imam) is about to appear.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>The article reports:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p><em>&#8220;It&#8217;s called The Coming is Near and it describes current events in the Middle East as a prelude to the arrival of the mythical tweflth Imam or Mahdi &#8212; the messiah figure who Islamic scriptures say will lead the armies of Islam to victory over all non-Muslims in the last days.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8221;This video has been produced by a group called the Conductors of the Coming, in connection with the Basiji &#8212; the Iranian paramilitary force, and in collaboration with the Iranian president&#8217;s office,&#8221; said Reza Kahlil, a former member of Iran&#8217;s Revolutionary Guards who shared the video with CBN News.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The belief that chaos in the world will usher in the appearance of the Mahdi is one of the beliefs of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.&nbsp; The video claims that Iran will rise to be one of the leaders in the new Muslim world&#8211;a world in which Christians, Jews, and other non-believers are either killed or conquered.&nbsp; The video says that the Imam will rule the world from Iraq.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The article concludes:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p class=\"adjusted\" sizset=\"45\" sizcache=\"1\"><em>&#8220;&#8221;I think it&#8217;s a very grave development,&#8221; Mideast expert Joel Rosenberg, author of <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/shop.cbn.com\/cbn\/item.The-Twelfth-Imam-Rosenberg-Joel-C.9781414311630.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Twelfth Imam<\/em><\/a><em>, told CBN News, &#8220;because it gives you a window into the thinking of the Iranian leadership: that they believe the time for war with Israel may be even sooner than others had imagined.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"adjusted\"><em>&#8220;Kahlili says The Coming is Near will soon be distributed by the Iranian regime throughout the Middle East.&nbsp; He explained their goal to instigate further uprisings in Arab countries.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" class=\"adjusted\">I know that there are peaceful Muslims, but make no mistake, they will be forced into silence as the militant Muslims gain increased power.&nbsp; This video is designed to create chaos.&nbsp; This video is the face of the enemies of western civilization.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" class=\"adjusted\">This is the link to watch the video at <a href=\"http:\/\/atimetobetray.com\/blog\/iran-leaders-the-coming-is-upon-us-%E2%80%93-israel-shall-be-destroyed-watch-the-video\/\">Reza Kahlil<\/a>&#8216;s website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CBN News&nbsp;posted an article today about a video produced by the Iranian government stating that the current Middle East chaos is evidence the the Mahdi (the Twelfth Imam) is about to appear.&nbsp; The article reports: &#8220;It&#8217;s called The Coming is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=2821\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2821\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}