Already today nuclear technology in Iran is not just regarded as a source of energy, but is fetishistically revered: “Iran’s nuclearization … is the beginning of a very great change in the world, since its nuclear activities are in the service of peace, justice and welfare for all the world’s countries,” declared Ahmadinejad in August 2007.[15] So the purpose of this nuclear capability is not deterrence or self-defense, but the “liberation of the world”...
Especially disturbing are statements tying together the coming of the Twelfth Imam and the destruction of Israel. As Ayatollah Nouri-Hamedani, one of the Iranian regime’s leading religious authorities, declared: “One should fight the Jews and vanquish them so that the conditions for the advent of the Hidden Imam are met.”[16] In November 2006 Mohammad Hassan Rahimian, the representative of the Iranian Supreme Leader, who stands even higher in the Iranian hierarchy than Ahmadinejad, stated that, “the Jew is the most stubborn enemy of the believers. And the decisive war will decide the fate of humanity… The reappearance of the Twelfth Imam will usher in a war between Israel and the Shia.”[17] This brings me on to my final point: the specific type of antisemitism espoused by the Iranian leadership.
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