Will Iran's hoped for Mahdi be the anti-Christ who will bring on the battle of Armageddon?

Question

Muslims, but especially the shiites want the destruction of Israel and is already aligned with Russia and Syria in making and hiding nuclear weapons. Weapons of mass destruction are already hidden in Syria from before the beginning of the Iraq war, when they were moved from Iraq. They are involved in the turmoil in Iraq by helping to make bombs there. Iran is associated with Hezbollah and Hamas, both terrorist groups. They seem to be ready to move. How many years do we have left on this planet before all this comes to a head?

Answer 1

You are right. Iran is preparing for the emergence of Imam Mahdi. (Shiite beliefs differ from Sunni beliefs regarding the Mahdi). The Iranians believe that Imam Mahdi (Imam Zamana) will appear from the Jamkaran masjid (mosque) in Qom, Iran. The government has spent $17 million for improvements in anticipation of this event.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPQIocPCHg8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SB_CD4A5jS4
The mahdi is a "divinely guided one" who will lead Muslims.

According to Muslim beliefs, Jesus the messiah son of Mary ('Isa Masih bin Maryam) will return to kill the dajjal (antichrist).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8AZkQZzXVA
http://members.lycos.co.uk/islameveryday/Thoughts/dajjal.htm

The prophecies seem to point to the present day times.

Muslims do seek the destruction of the state of Israel because they consider that the country was created from Arab lands (Palestine) by the Balfour declaration and the UN.

Iran's manufacture of a nuclear bomb may be ready very soon due to the installation of 3,000 centrifuges at the FEP (fuel enrichment plant) at Natanz.
In defiance of the UNSC and the IAEA, Iran not only continues to enrich uranium but has gone from 3 arrays of 164 (P-1 slow) centrifuges to 18 arrays of (P-2 fast) centrifuges (=2952) in its underground facilty at Natantz. The facility was built to hold up to 60,000 centrifuges.

ISIS was skeptical of the Natanz FEP (fuel enrichment plant) being fully operational with 3,000 centrifuges by May 2007 to produce HEU which could be combined with the plutonium production at the "heavy water" facility at Arak and make a nuclear weapon.

Iran's President Mahmoud Admadi-Nejad announced on Monday, April 9, 2007 that the Natantz FEP plant had indeed installed the 3,000 centrifuges as was enriching uranium on an "industrial scale". This is in defiance of the UNSC expanded sanctions imposed on March 24, 2007. Leading Iranian nuclear negotiator, Ali Larijani, indicated that Iran would quit the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty rather than comply with the demands of the IAEA. Iran's top nuclear negotiator, Ali Larijani announced, "The Islamic republic of Iran has installed 3,000 centrifuges and begun feeding them with uranium hexafluoride gas."

Furthermore, in defiance of the UNSC travel ban, Gen. Mohammad Baqer Zolqadr, an Iranian Revolutionary Guard general, made a 6-day trip to Russian boasted his trip showed "the ineffectiveness of the resolution."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070410/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iran_nuclear_32;_ylt=AoupblV5rt4R4WRxOmkgGo.tOrgF
http://www.debka.com/headline.php?hid=4045
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6538957.stm

In the enrichment process, uranium hexafluoride gas is pumped into centrifuges, which spin and purify the gas. Enriched to a low degree, the result is fuel for a reactor, but to a high degree it creates the material for a nuclear warhead. The aim of enrichment is to increase the proportion of fissile uranium-235 atoms within uranium. The slightly denser isotope u-238 (see depleted uranium) is separate from the lighter u-235 (fissile uranium).
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/spl/hi/sci_nat/05/nuclear_fuel/html/enrichment.stm

The head of the Iranian Nuclear Energy Organization, Gholam-Reza Aghazadeh, explains it thus:
The simple way is to inject 0.7% (uranium) and obtain 3.5%, right? Now, if you take this 3.5% and inject it again into the chain (of centrifuges), the result will be 20%. If you inject the 20% back into the chain, the result will be 60%. If you inject this 60%, the result will be 90%.
http://www.memritv.org/Transcript.asp?P1=1120
http://www.memritv.org/Search.asp?ACT=S6&P1=2,148&P3=

On Tuesday, April 10, 2007 Head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) Reza Aqazadeh said that "industrial scale enrichment" means Iran is proceeding to install and operate the complete array of 50,000 centrifuges for maximum capacity of uranium enrichment.
http://www2.irna.ir/en/news/view/line-24/0704102262112737.htm
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Prior to 2002 there were several NPT violations. Since the 2002 construction of the underground facility at Natanz, Iran has made steady progress to producing weapons grade material

http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/world/iran/natanz.htm
2002 - Iran builds underground plant at Natanz.
At a 13 December 2002 briefing, State Department spokesman Richard Boucher told reporters the facility was being built partially underground, and as such is inconsistent with Iran's claims that its nuclear intentions are peaceful: "It appears from the imagery that a service road, several small structures, and perhaps three large structures are being build below grade, and some of these are already being covered with earth. Iran clearly intended to harden and bury that facility. That facility was probably never intended by Iran to be a declared component of the peaceful program. Instead Iran has been caught constructing a secret underground site where it could produce fissile material." Based upon what Boucher termed "hard evidence," Iran appears to be constructing a uranium enrichment plant at Nantaz, as well as a heavy water plant. "The suspect uranium-enrichment plant ... could be used to produce highly-enriched uranium for weapons. The heavy-water plant could support a reactor for producing weapons-grade plutonium. These facilities are not justified by the needs of Iran's civilian nuclear program," he said. By mid-2004 the Natanz centrifuge facility was hardened with a roof of several meters of reinforced concrete and buried under a layer of earth some 75 feet deep.

2002 - Davood Aqajani, director for the Natanz heavy water project, also manages Kala-Electric which is developing the capability to make separated plutonium and highly enriched uranium, the two main nuclear explosive materials

2003 - It was reported on August 26, 2003, that the IAEA had found particles of highly enriched uranium in environmental samples taken at Natanz

http://www.isis-online.org/publications/iran/irannptviolations.pdf
2004 - Iran did not declare to the IAEA the existence of a pilot enrichment facility at the Kalaye Electric Company Workshop, and laser enrichment plants at the Tehran Nuclear Research center and at Lashkar Ab’ad. Because experiments at these sites involved the use of nuclear material in equipment, Iran was obligated to report them to the IAEA. Iran continues to deny the IAEA access to equipment and areas of the Physics Research Center at Lavisan-Shian and elsewhere for environmental sampling, and despite repeated requests, has not made available for interview one of the center’s former directors. IAEA entry to another site, Parchin, was granted only after repeated requests and under circumscribed conditions. Iran recently balked at a request by the IAEA to visit the underground halls at Natanz. As noted below, Iran has refused outright to discuss sensitive issues related to alleged high explosives testing, the design of a missile re-entry vehicle and apparent linkages between its nuclear program and Iran’s military.

http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/world/iran/nuke.htm
2004 (Using only P-1 centrifuges)...... By some time in 2006, Iran could be producting fissile material for atomic bombs using both uranium enriched at Natanz and plutonium produced at Arak. The Natanz facility might produce enough uranium for about five bombs every year, and the Arak facility might produced enough plutonium for as many as three bombs every year.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4336559.stm
2005 - Pakistan has confirmed that the former head of its nuclear weapons programme, AQ Khan, on the nuclear black market, sold centrifuges for enriching uranium to Iran.

http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/08/25/news/nuke.php
2006 - Iran Centrifuge Technology Company has built at least 15 (P-2) advanced uranium enrichment centrifuges. Iran has already been enriching uranium with slower P-1 centrifuges, made from an older design.

http://www.isis-online.org/publications/iran/continuedprogress.pdf
Nov 2006
Iran is progressing in its work at the Pilot Fuel Enrichment Plant (PFEP) at Natanz, and continues to deny IAEA requests to resolve outstanding questions in a number of areas. The IAEA states that between August 13 and November 2, 2006, Iran reported that approximately 34 kg of UF6 was fed into the centrifuges and enriched to levels below 5 percent U-235. HEU contamination was reported in the IAEA’s August 2006 report. The plutonium is a new finding

http://www.isis-online.org/publications/iran/IAEAreport14November2006.pdf
Since 31 August 2006, centrifuges in the single machine test stand, and the 10-machine, 20-
machine and first 164-machine cascades at the Pilot Fuel Enrichment Plant (PFEP) have been run, mostly under vacuum, with UF6 being fed during intermittent periods. The installation of the second 164-machine cascade was completed and, on 13 October 2006, testing of the cascade with UF6 gas was begun. Iran has not provided the Agency with full access to operating records at PFEP.

http://www.iaea.org/NewsCenter/Focus/IaeaIran/index.shtml
2007 - UNANIMOUS VOTE - The UN Security Council unanimously adopted Resolution 1747 on 24 March 2007. As reported by the UN press office, the resolution imposes further sanctions on Iran and reaffirms that Iran must take the steps required by the IAEA Board.

http://www.iaea.org/NewsCenter/Transcripts/2007/ft190207.html
We know that they have two 164 centrifuge cascades above ground in the "R&D" facility at Natanz. They have also said but sometimes denied that they have two further 164 centrifuge cascades below ground in in Natanz.
19 February 2007 - ElBaradei - six months away - since the country has already acquired considerable technical knowledge from enriching uranium in a "research and development" facility.

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1167467763039&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
Jan 18, 2007 Iran is ready to start assembling 3,000 centrifuges to produce enriched uranium - a possible pathway to nuclear arms - after finishing most preliminary work on an underground facility housing such machines, a diplomat and a UN official said Thursday... Iran's leaders have suggested those machines would be in place by March 20, the end of the Iranian year.

http://www.isis-online.org/publications/iran/ArakConstruction20March2007.pdf
Feb 25, 1007 GeoEye’s OrbView-3 satellite imagery of Arak 40 MW Heavy Water Reactor construction. When fully operational, the reactor is estimated to be able to produce about 9 kilograms of weapon-grade plutonium per year.

http://www.isis-online.org/publications/iran/AlbrightTestimony15March2007.pdf
March 15, 2007 - Iran intends to have one of the largest nuclear fuel cycle programs in the developing world..with the capability to produce highly enriched uranium (HEU) and weapon-grade plutonium for nuclear weapons. Natanz - Urenco’s “P1” (slow) and “P2” (fast) centrifuges - In January, Iran started to install about 3,000 centrifuges underground in the FEP. The centrifuges are slated to be organized into eighteen 164-machine cascades that operate together under a common control system to produce low enriched uranium, what Iran calls a “module.” The underground halls of the FEP can hold about 17-18 modules, for a total of about 50,000 to 53,000 centrifuges.

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/profiles/Iran.pdf
Energy: Iran ranks second in the world in natural gas reserves and third in oil reserves. Nevertheless, in 2005 Iran spent US$4 billion dollars on fuel imports, mainly because of inefficient domestic use. Oil industry output averaged 4 million barrels per day in 2005, compared with the peak output of 6 million barrels per day reached in 1974. In the early 2000s, industry infrastructure was increasingly inefficient because of technological lags. Few exploratory wells were drilled in 2005.
In 2005 a large share of Iran’s natural gas reserves were believed to remain untapped. By 2004 the addition of new hydroelectric stations and the streamlining of conventional coal- and oil-fired stations increased installed capacity to 33,000 megawatts. Of that amount, about 75 percent was based on natural gas, 18 percent on oil, and 7 percent on hydroelectric power. In 2004 Iran opened its first wind-powered and geothermal plants, and the first solar thermal plant was to come online in 2009. Demographic trends and intensified industrialization have caused electric power demand to grow by 8 percent per year. The government’s goal of 53,000 megawatts of installed capacity by 2010 is to be reached by bringing on line new gas-fired plants financed by independent power producers, including those with foreign investment backing, and by adding hydroelectric and nuclear power generating capacity. Iran’s first nuclear power plant at Bushehr, scheduled to come on line in 2002 but not completed as of early 2006, has received international criticism because of concerns that its enriched uranium and spent fuel can be diverted for the production of nuclear weapons. In 2005 Iran’s electricity imports were greater than its exports by about 500 million kilowatt-hours; exchanges were made with all neighboring countries except Iraq.

While the 15 British sailors and marines were being detained in the Persian Gulf on March 23, 2007, by Iranian Revolutionary Guards, Iranian President Mahmaoud Ahmadinejad abruptly cancelled his appearance before the U.N. Security Council and sent stead, Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki to speak. He indicated that Iran was willing to continue negotiations but without the precondition that uranium enrichment must be halted.
Mottaki appeared before the UN on March 24 and said, "the world has two options to proceed on the nuclear issue: continued negotiations or confrontation. Choosing the path of confrontation ... will have its own consequences. "
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20070325/D8O3E7J00.html

The U.N. Security Council unanimously voted to expand sanctions on March 24, 2007. The new resolution 1747 calls on Iran to comply fully with all previous UN resolutions and join negotiations to reach agreement so as to restore international confidence in the peaceful nature of its nuclear program. Full transparency and cooperation with the IAEA are required. Suspension of Iran’s banned nuclear activities will elicit the parallel suspension of sanctions. The package of incentives offered Tehran last year for its cooperation remains on the table. The full text of the draft of resolution 1747 appears at this website:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6455853.stm

Military confrontation may be on the horizon.

Iran's key nuclear sites.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4617398.stm

In addition to the British frigate HMS Cornwall, there is a multi-national strike force in the Persian Gulf. Furthermore, there are British naval vessels stationed at the Diego Garcia atoll in the Indian ocean. The British Royal Navy may take action with its Special Boat Service (SBS) , the British Royal Navy's special forces unit. The service's motto is "By Strength and Guile". It forms part of the United Kingdom Special Forces, alongside the Special Air Service (SAS), Special Reconnaissance Regiment (SRR), and Special Forces Support Group (SFSG).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Boat_Service

Ready to assist are the American aircraft carrier strike group aircraft carrier CVN-73 USS John C. Stennis (deployed January 20), the American aircraft carrier strike group CVN-69 USS Dwight D. Eisenhower and the French nuclear carrier Charles de Gaulle and its task force are all in close appoximation in the Persian Gulf. A 3rd carrier group, the CVN-68 USS Nimitz (deployed March 30) was scheduled for its WESTPAC07 deployment to replace the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower which was deployed December 2006. But accounts indicate that all three strike groups still remain in the Persian Gulf.
http://www.debka.com/headline.php?hid=3961
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/agency/navy/batgru-68.htm
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070330/pl_afp/usmilitaryirannavy_070330160111;_ylt=Annlx2.rLEDDrJgz9RYaNIcUewgF
Amphibious ready group LHD-5 Bataan ( USS Oak Hill, USS Shreveport). In carrying out its primary mission, BATAAN would transport and land ashore not only troops, but also the tanks, trucks and other vehicles, artillery, ammunition, and complete supplies necessary to fully support the assault. LHD-5's armament system includes the NATO Sea Sparrow Surface Missile System (NSSMS) for antiair warfare protection, two Rolling Airframe Missile (RAM) Systems and two Phalanx Close-in Weapon System (CIWS) mounts to counter threats from low flying aircraft and close-in small craft. Six missile decoy launchers augment LHD-5's antiship missile defenses. LDH-5 was scheduled back on April 4 and was evidently kept in the Persian Gulf due to circumstances in the area.
http://www.debka.com/article.php?aid=1265
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/agency/navy/lhd-5.htm
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/agency/navy/marg.htm
The US may have deployed 4 or 5 carrier groups in the Persian Gulf
http://en.rian.ru/analysis/20070328/62741920.html
Hmmmmm
The big "E" CVN-65 Enterprise ready strike group
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/agency/navy/batgru-65.htm
Maybe CVN-76 Reagan was deployed
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/agency/navy/batgru-76.htm
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/ops/where.htm
Maybe CVN-72 Lincoln?
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/agency/navy/batgru-72.htm
Is CVN-77 Bush ready?
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/ship/cvn-77.htm

More details about military options can be found here:
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/ops/iran-strikes.htm

On Tuesday, March 27, 2007, the two US strike groups, USS Dwight D. Eisenhower and the USS Stennis, along with guided-missile cruiser USS Antietam, conducted military exercises in the Persian Gulf. The participants included 15 warships and more than 100 aircraft..

Each carrier carries an air wing of F/A-18 Hornet and Super Hornet fighter-bombers, EA-6B Prowler electronic warfare aircraft, S-3 Viking refueling and anti-submarine planes, and E-2C Hawkeye airborne command-and-control aircraft.

Also taking part were six guided-missile destroyers, the Anzio, Ramage, O'Kane, Mason, Preble and Nitze; the frigate Hawes; amphibious assault ships Boxer and Bataan; and the minesweepers Scout, Gladiator and Ardent.
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/world/2007-03/28/content_838185.htm

The Isfahan plant is above ground, but Natanz is more than 50ft below and would require either a tactical nuclear missile or a conventional bunker-buster bomb to destroy it.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/iran/story/0,,1753223,00.html.

Iran's Shahab-3 ballistic missiles are capable of carrying a nuclear warhead and can be detonated by a remote-control device while still in high-altitude flight as electromagnetic pulse weapons - even one of which could knock out America's critical electrical and technological infrastructure, effectively sending the continental U.S. back to the 19th century with a recovery time of months or years. Iran will have that capability – at least theoretically – as soon as it has one nuclear bomb ready to arm such a missile
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=43956
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Answer 2

Yes, the final battle will be between Christ and the Antichrist's armies. Yes, the Antichrist is alive and well on Earth today, but hasn't yet been empowered by Satan to do all that he's commanded to do, simply because the Church is still here on Earth. After the Resurrection, the Antichrist will be energized by Satan to seemingly have answers for why all those Christians disappeared and all the world's problems and etc. but the final stage will be set when he makes the mistake of setting himself up in the rebuilt Temple on the Holy of Holies as God.

Answer 3

Definately not.

First of all, don't be troubled by any similarities you see between this "Mahdi" story and Judeo-Christian teachings. You must remember that Muhammad spoke with many Jewish and Christian travellers while he was formulating his new religion and naturally incorporated many details from our Bible into his own teachings.

Secondly, Daniel 9:25-27 makes it clear that the Antichrist ("the prince who is to come") will arise from the reborn Roman Empire; he will probably be Italian. The Mahdi doesn't fit this picture. Nor does the Mahdi fit any of the multitude of other details we know about the Antichrist.

Thirdly, Ezekiel 38 and 39 tells us that, when Russia, Iran and other Middle Eastern nations invade Israel (which will happen soon), we will see the end of radical Islam and the seemingly renewed Czarist empire that Putin is trying in vain to build. Eze. 39:4 tells us ALL of the invaders will be killed by God (consult a version other than the KJV, which contains a mistranslation here). With Radical Islam and Putin out of the way, the Antichrist will have the freedom to step forward and ... well, you know the rest of the story.

Answer 4

Hello, good question.
We all know that Israel will be invaded by other countries as mentioned.You knows where. But who we never asked our selves who will invade it? What is there religion? Certainly they will not be Muslims. Secondly, we never asked our selves why they will invade it. Is Israel doing bad things and against who? To be punished by God’s well with this invasion?
The Mahdi will come from a Muslim Arabic country as revolutionary action against the political systems there. Then the Antichrist will come and try to kill him and his followers, and he will succeed in killing many of them. Who do you think will follow the Mahdi and who will follow Antichrist? At the end, Jesus will come and kill the Antichrist and the Mahdi will believe in Jesus because they both are following the right path of God and were sent by him. The state of darkness will be destroyed just like it was destroyed long time ago by their old enemies from the east (the same way of destruction).

Answer 5

the big world leaders will bring on the battle of Armageddon I really don't believe the muslim is the one
I feel it someone or some small country we have not seen yet that will come
The Muslim world is and have alway been a big country we only see the news that make them out to be poor and uneducated but this is not true.
They have alway been a problem for Israel and most of the world
They are all talk and some action but I fear there maybe another country that we are losing the big picture that what scare me
We are fighting the muslim which we should to help other muslim out
But I fear the ones that is not muslim or christian

Answer 6

who sayes there are Weapons of mass destruction in syria????????? prove it!
they said that before in iraq...where are the weapons?NONE!
and look how many are suffering to this day.
but Allah sees and hears all

How many years do we have left on this planet?
when Allah swt decides,then let it be!

Answer 7

This whole political this is B.S. it's all a big lie.

First the WMD's were in Iraq, now they are in syria and Iran, so why not invade those countries. then after that they'll be moved to lebanon and turkey than we can invade those countries, then they'll be moved to egypt, then we invade and so on.

Answer 8

The anti-christ will bring a false peace, look for the one who brings peace to the region, for it will be short lived and his true purpose revealed.

This person still may not be from there.

Answer 9

No there will be no Armageddon, Apocalypse, Antichrist or Second Cumming. You just come one time in this old world. Sorry but all that nonsense just ain't going to happen. Your religion is no more than paganism or voodoo. All is just nonsense.

Answer 10

I suppose Dick Cheney told you personally about all the hidden WMDs.... He's such a reliable source.

Wake up, sweetie, they've been lying from the start.

Answer 11

Are we talking religion here?