Watch Out for the Mad Ayatollah Mesbah
Potkin
Azarmehr
2005/08/17
Today I had a rare opportunity to tidy up my
office. It seems no matter what I do, piles of paper just seem to mount up. I
suppose that is one drawback of having too many interests in life. There is so
much to do and yet life seems to be too short. Any way, while going through some
of my archives of Iranian dailies, I came across a copy of the Khordad daily
from six years ago. One of the first in a series of dailies which were one by
one banned by the judiciary. The big headlines grabbed my attention:
"Mesbah-Yazdi: If anyone insults the Islamic sanctities, Islam has
permitted for his blood to be spilled, no court needed either"
Of course many of these so-called Western Iran-experts or as my friend Ann
Leslie of the Daily Mail calls them, scallop-salad
nibblers, don't even know who this mad Ayatollah is and how he has risen
to power. More importantly that the mad Ayatollah is also the new selected
president's mentor and that he may even become a rival to the Supreme Leader,
Ali Khamenei.
To learn about Mesbah-Yazdi, one needs to become familiar with the Hojjatieh
group. This was a semi-clandestine religious group that was set up in the 1950's
during the Shah's time. Soon the group's network spread and many of its members
secretly gained influential positions. The foremost objective of the group's
founder, Sheikh Halabi was to eradicate the Bahaii faith and its members.
Hojjatieh thugs targetted the Bahaii places of worship, gatherings and cemetries.
According to the Shiite version of Islam, the 12th descendant of prophet
Mohammed , Mehdi or the Lord of All Ages, went into hiding when he was a child,
some 1300 years ago. Shiites believe he will reappear again when the world has
become full of oppression and tyranny. Bahaiis on the other hand believe that
their prophet, Sheikh Bahaollah, was the reincarnation of Mehdi and he has
already appeared and spread the Bahaii faith.
Members of the
Hojjatieh group think such a suggestion is blasphemy, for the coming of the Lord
of All Ages shall be the end of the world as it is. Interestingly, and this is
where the West really has to understand what is going on in Iran, the Hojjatieh
group took no part in the 1979 revolution. For
they actually believe in the spread of tyranny and oppression. They argue
that if the Lord of All Ages is to appear when the world is full of oppression
and tyranny, then we ought to help spread evil, tyranny and oppression in order
to facilitate the coming of the 12th Imam, Mehdi. If you stand in the way of
tyranny and oppression then you delay the coming of the Lord of All Ages, the
Hojjatieh argue.
Please read the above carefully, then think
about nuclear technology at the hands of these people and how they yearn for the
coming armageddon.
Ayatollah Khomeini actually frowned the Hojjatieh and the group was nominally
dissolved in 1983, yet they secretly continued to maintain and strengthen their
network. Mesbah-Yazdi nicknamed the "alligator", amongst the Iranian
population, is a chief ideologue of the Hojjatieh group who was actually made
redundant during Khomeini's years but let me explain how he rose to power.
After Khomeini's death, all of the main Shiite Grand Ayatollahs (Sources of
Emulation for the Shiite faithful) rejected Khameni's theologian credentials as
a Grand Ayatollah, essential for him to become the new Supreme Leader, except
for two. One of them was Mesbah-Yazdi and the other, the now chief of judiciary,
the Iraqi born, Ayatollah Shahroodi. Thus Mesbah came back again from obscurity
and in return for his services to establish the new Supreme Leader, he asked for
funds and facilities to run the Imam-Khomeini institute. On the surface, the
role of this institute is to spread the teachings of Khomeini. In reality
however, Messbah-Yazdi used the funds and the means at his disposal to once
again strengthen the network of the Hojjatieh group. Until now Mesbah-Yazdi and
Khamanei have served each other well, with the announcement of the new cabinet
and the re-emergence of the Hojjatieh group, the "alligator" may now
even be tempted to push aside the Supreme Leader.
One thing is for certain though, with all the oil money, and now all the key
power positions in their hand, and most importantly the nuclear technology,
things have never looked so good for the Hojjatieh group to plan the coming of
the Lord of All Ages, the Imam Zaman, the Mehdi.
If you think I am scaremongering, then don't take my words for it, if you want
to believe the CNN, and the BBC and the John Simpsons and all the rest of the PC
Western mass media that the last presidential elections in Iran was fair and
free, you are entitled to your opinion but just remember how incensed Ayatollah
Tavassoli, the former chief of staff of Ayatollah Khomeini, was at the
"fraudulent and despicable" way the faction crowned their own man, and
how he voiced alarm that the leaders of the Hojjatieh group were now practically
in control of the executive branch and the Revolutionary Guards, and the new
selected president being under their domination.
Watch the selected president's mentor, Ayatollah Mesbah-Yazdi inaugurate his
protegee:
http://www.mesbahyazdi.org/farsi/Movie1.wmv
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