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In my article entitled “Message from Israeli Columnist …”, referring to the columnist Ben Caspit, I emphasized the fact that some secular leftists in Israel welcomed the ceremony organized by the US Embassy to move from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem on May 14 as “messianic”, and I asked: “doesn’t Iran have a message for all this?”

As I pointed out in my last article, Iran has an answer to this perverse neoconservative understanding/politics, of course. There is even a history dating back to about two and a half years from the Israeli columnist …

Let us remind …

January 12, 2016. Iran Revolutionary Guard commander Major General Mohammad Ali Jafari, who spoke in the program organized in Islamic Education Center for Strategic Studies in Tehran, through the agency Fars declared the whole world that 200 thousand armed youth in 5 countries are ready in accordance with the common objectives with Iran and what is happening in the region prepares the ground for the arrival of the Mahdi.

Expressesing this development as “the preparation for the arrival of the Mahdi”, Jafari says the following: ” We must be willing to sacrifice ourselves to achieve the high goals of the Islamic Revolution (the Iranian Revolution). Adn we must play our role in the spirit of jihad for the Islamic Revolution by using the capabilities God has given us. The emergence of ISIS and tekfir groups in recent years in the region and the events that have taken place, all of them are preparing the conditions of the appearance (coming of Mahdi). The positive outcome of this is that approximately 200 thousand armed youth are ready in Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Yemen.”

Let’s open a small parenthesis here and give the following information: The Jafarides in Iran believe that the Mahdi will emerge soon after the rupture of the doomsday, that in this context, the increase of chaos and wars around the world is a sign of the Mahdi’s arrival. In the meantime, it is interesting to note that Christians, Jews and Evangelists, a hybrid mixture of both, express a similar discourse through Christ.

In a more tangible statement, there is not much difference in the context of rhetoric, methods, tools and targets between the US, built on a messianic thought and which is in the position of “Castle of Evangelism” and carrying its ambassy to Jerusalem as a final move at this point and Iran, which is based the ground of legitimacy of the Islamic revolution and the search for influence in foreign policy on Mahdi within the framework of the “Iran-Islam” concept. Indeed, as of today, one speeding up the coming of the Messiah, another the appearance of Mahdi, like “forcing God to doomsday”…

“Clowns’ Fight” between US and Iran?

All these developments between the US and Iran, which have been in crisis since the Islamic Revolution of Iran, are in fact a controlled crisis (in simple words “Clowns’ Fight”) or a new stage in the “Armageddon War”? Because they both seem to have a common legitimacy ground: the Mahdi/Messiah…

He must have caught your attention. The countries in this statement of Iranian Revolutionary Guards Commander Jaafari are largely overlapping with those of Hamas, Hizbollah, Al Qaeda and the Taliban, where US President Trump claims that Iran is in co-operation. When you consider Syria, Lebanon and Palestine in the same line, Hamas is included. Hence, there is struggle for domination, a sphere of influence over the Messiah-Mahdi. As a matter of fact, it is noticed that the regions, which are seen as a struggle area between US and Iran, had been a common area of cooperation until yesterday.

Carte blanche taken away from Iran…

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo almost admits the “clowns’ fight and deep cooperation/common interest between them in a “new Iran strategy”, including the 12 conditions announced on May 21st, and uses the following statement: “Iran will never again have carte blanche to dominate the Middle East.” ”

I’m taking your attention; Pompeo talks about a carte blanche, given the hands of Iran…

What is this carte blanche? And when was it handed to Iran? I’m sure you’re asking yourself these questions.  Well, to be honest, the answer is that it’s closely related to 9/11 and later. Because one of the countries that supported the US invasion was Iran, and it didn’t have just only Afghanistan in return…

I’m not claiming it. It is being confessed by the Iranian authorities themselves. How?

Confessions of “Clowns’ fight”

Ali Akbar Velayeti, chief adviser to Iranian religious leader Ayatollah Ali Khamaney, who interviewed one of Iran’s high-circulation newspapers in September 2016, said his country has collabored with the US in Iraq and Afghanistan on some issues in the past and the said: “A large part of Afghanistan was under the control of the Taliban. Under such conditions, the Americans would not have been able to enter Afghanistan without the help of Iran.”

Clearly stated that there are similar incidents in the Iraq, Velayeti sayd: “Iran and the US have made negotiations to help establish security in Iraq after the fall of Saddam.” At the end of each statement, Velayeti was also establishing the sentences which can be understood as “the US sold us.”

By the way, we can’t say that Velayeti is the first in this regard. Even in chronological terms, Velayeti is the last confessor … The first serious confession was from former president Rafsanjani. Stating that the negotiations with the US were began before the presidency of the Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, “we made cooperation and negotiations with the United States. It has been the same in Iraq,” said Rafsanjani, explaining that Afghanistan-Iraq constitutions were written after talks between the US and Iran.

It should be noted here that Hashimi Rafsanjani, Chairman of Expediency Discernment Council, said in December 2015 that the constitutions of Iraq and Afghanistan were written after the US-Iran talks. Needless to say, this is based on the permission granted by the religious leader.

And what happened, that the partnership has come to an end? The answer is very clear, this is Iran’s response to the perverse messianic conception…

Let’s see who wins, the Mahdi or the Messiah?

Prof. Dr. Mehmet Seyfettin EROL
Prof. Dr. Mehmet Seyfettin EROL
Born in 1969, Dörtyol-Hatay, Prof. Dr. Mehmet Seyfettin Erol graduated from Boğaziçi University (BU), Department of Political Science and International Relations in 1993. After completing his master's degree at BU in 1995, Erol was accepted to the PhD program at BU in the same year. After completing his PhD at Ankara University in 2005, Erol became an associate professor in the field of “International Relations” in 2009 and a professor in 2014. Erol worked at the Eurasian Center for Strategic Studies (ASAM) between 2000 and 2006 and and served as the General Coordinator of ASAM for a period. In 2009, he served as also Founding Chairman and Board Member of the Institute for Strategic Thinking (SDE). He is also the Founding President of the Center for International Strategy and Security Studies (USGAM) and the President of the International Relations Institute of the New Türkiye Strategic Research Center (YTSAM). Prof. Erol has also served as the Director of Gazi University Strategic Research Center (GAZISAM). In 2007, Prof. Erol received the “Turkish World Service Award” from the Writers and Artists Foundation of the Turkic World (TÜRKSAV), and has received numerous awards for his academic work and his activities in the media. Some of them can be listed as follows: 2013 “Print Media of the Year Award” by the Association of Contemporary Democrats, 2015 “APM 10th Year Service Award”, “2015 Press-Intellectual of the Year Award” by the Writers' Union of Türkiye (YTB), “2016 Volunteer Ambassadors Media Honor Award” by the Anatolian Village Guards and Martyrs' Families, “2016 Türkiye Honor Award” by the Yoruk Turkmen Federations. Prof. Erol has 15 book studies. The names of some of them are as follows: “The United States of Turks from Dream to Reality”, “Türkiye-EU Relations: Foreign Policy and Internal Structure Problems”, “The New Great Game in Eurasia”, “The Search for Strategy in Turkish Foreign Policy”, “The Search for Security in Turkish Foreign Policy”, “The Republic of Türkiye-Russian Federation Relations”, “The Cold Organization of Hot Peace: The New NATO”, “Theoretical Approaches in Foreign Policy Analysis: The Case of Turkish Foreign Policy”, “Crises and Crisis Management: Actors and Case Studies”, “Kazakhstan” and “Current Issues in International Relations”. Since 2002, Prof. Erol, who has carried out radio programs such as “Eurasia Agenda”, “Strategic Perspective”, “Global Perspective”, “Analysis”, “File”, “News Desk”, “The Other Side of the Agenda” on TRT Türkiye's voice and TRT Radio 1 (Ankara Radio), made the programs “Arayış” on TRT INT television between 2004-2007, “Beyond the Border” on Kanal A television between 2007-2010 and “Foreign Policy Agenda” on BBN TÜRK television in 2020-2021. Prof. Erol, whose foreign policy column “Arayış” was published in Milli Gazete between 2012-2018, is consulted for his expertise in numerous national and international media outlets such as television, radio, newspapers, news websites and magazines. Prof. Erol, who also taught at Gazi University Department of International Relations and Ankara University Latin American Studies Center (LAMER) between 2006-2018, has been continuing his academic career as a faculty member at Ankara Hacı Bayram Veli University Department of International Relations since 2018. Since 2006, Prof. Erol has also taught in the Department of Political Science and International Relations at Ufuk University. The main areas of interest and expertise of Prof. Erol and the titles of his courses at the undergraduate, master's and doctoral levels in this area are as follows: “Geopolitics”, “Security”, “Intelligence”, “Crisis Management”, “Current Issues in International Relations”, “Turkish Foreign Policy”, “Russian Foreign Policy”, “US Foreign Policy” and “Central Asia and South Asia”. Prof. Erol, whose articles-evaluations have been published in many journals and newspapers, has been editor of academic journals such as “Eurasia File”, “Strategic Analysis”, “Strategic Thinking”, “Gazi Regional Studies”, “The Journal of SSPS”, “Black Sea Studies”. He is currently in the editorial boards of “Regional Studies,” “International Crisis and Political Research,” “Gazi Academic View”, “Ege University Turkish World Surveys”, “Ankara International Social Sciences”, “Democracy Platform”. Prof. Erol, who has been working as the Founding President of the Ankara Center for Crisis and Political Studies (ANKASAM) since 2016, is married and has three children.