{"id":3746,"date":"2011-02-12T10:07:31","date_gmt":"2011-02-12T10:07:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=3746"},"modified":"2011-02-12T10:30:37","modified_gmt":"2011-02-12T10:30:37","slug":"egypt-its-the-mahdi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=3746","title":{"rendered":"Egypt: it&#8217;s the Mahdi!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[  by <strong>Charles Cameron<\/strong> ]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/16_imam-zaman2-mahdi-from-tehran-times.jpg\" title=\"16_imam-zaman2-mahdi-from-tehran-times.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/16_imam-zaman2-mahdi-from-tehran-times.jpg\" alt=\"16_imam-zaman2-mahdi-from-tehran-times.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em> image of the awaited Twelfth Imam from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tehrantimes.com\/index_View.asp?code=200401\">Tehran Times<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>*<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a report on remarks <strong>President Ahmadinejad<\/strong> made in celebration of the anniversary of the Iranian revolution, just hours before <strong>President Mubarak<\/strong> quit, from this morning&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2011\/02\/11\/AR2011021106817.html\">Washington Post<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The crisis that has been roiling Egypt, a key U.S. ally in the region, dominated Friday&#8217;s celebration. Ahmadinejad said that the 12th imam Mahdi, a revered 9th-century Shiite saint, had directed the uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This is a global revolution, managed by the imam of the ages,&#8221; he told the crowds gathered in and around Tehran&#8217;s central Azadi Square.<\/p>\n<p>He predicted the formation of a world government, ruled by the 12th imam: &#8220;Hearts and beliefs are swiftly leaning toward forming a global governance and the necessity of the rule of the perfect human, linked to the heavens.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>h\/t @IbnSiqilli<\/p>\n<p>I really <em>should<\/em> have seen that one coming!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ by Charles Cameron ] image of the awaited Twelfth Imam from Tehran Times * Here&#8217;s a report on remarks President Ahmadinejad made in celebration of the anniversary of the Iranian revolution, just hours before President Mubarak quit, from this morning&#8217;s Washington Post: The crisis that has been roiling Egypt, a key U.S. ally in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[242,46,526,113,178,93,499,210,533,446,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ahmadinejad","category-analytic","category-charles-cameron","category-framing","category-geopolitics","category-iran","category-islamic-world","category-islamist","category-religion","category-shia","category-washington-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3746\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}