Ahmadinejad's Temple of Doom

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad may have been dealt a minor set back in recent elections in Tehran, and some analysts speculate he may be gone after this year, but don't be too sure. It may not matter who the president of the country happens to be. There has been enough slaughter and mayhem since the revolution of 1979 to produce other candidates who want to pull down the rest of the world in their apocalyptic visions.

This article in the Telegraph sums up the dangerous issues in this Shiite theocracy. Here is one section to give you a feel:
 

Ahmadinejad is unique, not because of his pronouncements about Israel, which he wishes wiped off the face of the earth, but because he actively seeks to bring about an apocalyptic struggle between the righteous and the wicked to accelerate the return of the mahdi or Hidden Imam.

One might think that the prospect of US or Israeli bombs raining down on Iran might sober this visionary. That would be a mistake. Khomeni actually incited war with Iraq in 1980, rejecting Saddam's offers of an armistice two years later. During the eight-year war, an enormous militia, called the Basij, was created under the aegis of the Revolutionary Guard. Boys aged 12 to 17 were dispatched against the Iraqi army, each armed with a plastic key to paradise, manufactured in bulk in Taiwan. A ghostly pale rider occasionally appeared, whose phosphorous-painted face was supposed to be that of the Hidden Imam, to urge these suicide waves on. Mowing these children down - and perhaps as many as 100,000 were killed - was so traumatic that even battle-hardened Iraqi veterans declined to fire.

For more background on Iran and a connection to a key Bible prophecy be sure to check this article from World News and Prophecy.