The website of the governmental Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB)
has posted a lengthy document titled "The World toward Illumination." The
document is a transcript of an IRIB series on the imminent arrival of the
Mahdi, the Twelfth or Hidden Imam, awaited by Shi'ites as the Messiah.

The program describes in glowing terms the messianic age to be inaugurated
by the Mahdi. He is to begin his uprising in Mecca, and then march on Iraq,
where he will establish his "seat of world government" in the city of Kufa
and subjugate the current world powers. This will be an age of unparalleled
happiness; there will be completely new technologies at mankind's disposal,
and "corruption, war, and rebellion will no longer exist." Neither will
"liberal democratic civilization."

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