Iran's supreme leader, is telling his nation that it must prepare for war and "the end of times" as it continues to develop nuclear weapons

(Jerusalem, Israel) -- My friend Reza Kahlili published this fascinating and sobering article <http://www.wnd.com/2012/07/iran-leader-we-must-prep-for-end-of-times/>  this week and I commend it to your attention. Reza used to be an officer in the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps. Then he became a double agent for the CIA. Now he is an American citizen who is using his contacts and sources in Iran to gather information to expose the evil regime in Tehran and bring them down before they acquire nuclear weapons and try to usher in the reign of the Twelfth Imam.  
Excerpts <http://www.wnd.com/2012/07/iran-leader-we-must-prep-for-end-of-times/> : 


* Iran's supreme leader, for the first time, is telling his nation that it must prepare for war and "the end of times" as it continues to develop nuclear weapons. State-owned media outlets <http://www.farsnews.com/newstext.php?nn=13910417000756> , in a coordinated effort, all ran a similar story Friday <http://www.basijpress.ir/9300>  highlighting Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's message on the coming of the last Islamic messiah.  


* Until now, the Iranian media would mostly quote clerics from seminaries on the issue of the last Islamic messiah to avoid the regime being labeled messianic. However, the wide publication of Khamenei's statements on a need to prepare for the end of times as it confronts the West over its illicit nuclear program is alarming to Western leaders. 


* "The issue of Imam Mahdi is of utmost importance, and his reappearance has been clearly stated in our holy religion of Islam," Khamenei said. We must study and remind ourselves of the end of times and Imam Mahdi's era. . We must prepare the environment for the coming so that the great leader will come." 

* Shiite theology holds that great wars must engulf the Earth, during which one-third of the world's population will die in the fighting and another third from hunger, lawlessness and havoc. Israel is to be destroyed, and only then will the 12th imam, Mahdi, reappear and kill all the infidels, raising the flag of Islam in all corners of the world.... 


Joel Rosenberg