Does the Iranian government really want to bring armageddon?

Why is this video of importance now?

The Iranian government recently laid out the legal and religious justification for the destruction of Israel and the slaughter of its people. This doctrine includes wiping out Israeli assets and Jewish people worldwide. The Iranian website Alef, which has close ties to Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said the opportunity must not be lost to remove “this corrupting material. It is a “‘jurisprudential justification” to kill all the Jews and annihilate Israel, and in that, the Islamic government of Iran must take the helm.”

In a major speech at Friday prayers Khamenei announced that Iran will support any nation or group that attacks the “cancerous tumor” of Israel. This was followed closely by Iran’s Defense Ministry test-firing an advanced two-stage, solid-fuel ballistic missile and boasted about successfully putting a new satellite into orbit, reminding the West that its engineers have mastered the technology for intercontinental ballistic missiles even as the Islamic state pushes its nuclear weapons program.

Maenwhile the commander of the Revolutionary Guards, Brig. Gen. Seyyed Mehdi Farahi, stated last year that Iran's Safir launcher could be launched parallel to the earth’s orbit, thus transforming it into an intercontinental ballistic missile. The Brig. Gen. also detailed the Islamic duty of jihad as laid out in the Quran for the sake of Allah and states that “primary jihad,” according to some Shiite jurists, can only occur when the Hidden Imam, the Shiites’ 12th Imam Mahdi, returns. Shiites believe Mahdi’’s return will usher in Armageddon. Forghani claimed that Israel could be destroyed in less than nine minutes and that Khamenei, as utmost authority believes that Israel and America not only must be defeated but annihilated.

There are people at the top of Iran's political and military who seriously believe that the destruction of Israel will trigger the coming of the last Islamic Messiah and that even Jesus Christ, who will convert to Islam, will act as Mahdi’s deputy, praying to Allah as he stands behind the 12th Imam.

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