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What drives Ahmadinejad?

Iran (aka Persia) continues to move towards its destruction in accordance with Ezekiel 38 & 39:

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What drives Ahmadinejad?

Iranian president wants to set stage for appearance of Shiite messiah

Jonathan Halevi and Ashley Perry

Published: 06.17.08, 00:43 / Israel Opinion

Shiite Iran is striving to attain the position of regional superpower en route to becoming a significant nuclear

power on the international stage. Iran openly challenges the West in its attempt to eject the Americans and

British from Iraq and attain hegemony in the Persian Gulf region, supported among other, by its military

program, massively built up in recent years. The Iranian leadership talks of a “New Middle East” in response

to the West, which would be an Islamic Middle East in the mold of the Iranian inspired Islamic revolution.

Iran's political aspirations are driven by a deep religious zeal. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad repeatedly

pledges "the imminent and evident liquidation of Israel," as a code word for the messianic fervor he shares

with his spiritual mentor, Ayatollah Mohammad Taghi Mesbah Yazdi, one of the more radical ayatollahs,

who subscribes to diplomatic and military activism to advance the global Islamic revolution spearheaded by Iran.

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