Translation by Reza Kahlili. (Thanks to all who sent this in.)
The eschatological revenge fantasy of the Twelfth Imam would be of no concern to anyone but pious Shi”ites and religious anthropologists were it not for the element of Shi”ite tradition that requires that the earth be “filled with tyranny and violence” before the Twelfth Imam can return. There is no requirement that non-Muslims must be responsible for that violence; Shi”ites filled with religious fervor, like Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the mullahs behind him, could hasten the Twelfth Imam’s return and the consummation of all things by, say, launching a nuclear strike against Tel Aviv or some other Infidel outpost, knowing that by doing so they would almost certainly be provoking a retaliatory strike that would subject the Muslims in Iran to more defeat and repression than even the Shi”ites had previously suffered.