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Source: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/03/22/pro-regime-rallies-tehran-sign-ayatollahs-teetering/
For Regime Supporters, the Biggest Barrier to the Return of the Messianic Hidden Imam Is the Existence of the State of Israel
(Telegraph-UK) Kasra Aarabi - Images and video footage of large crowds holding Islamic Republic flags, Hizbullah banners and images of the new supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, are being continuously aired on Iranian state TV. The people we are seeing are certainly real, but they represent a very narrow and extreme segment of Iranian society, the hard base of the regime. The Islamic Republic has gradually lost the support of almost all social constituencies in Iran except for the hard base, which views the existence of the Islamic Republic and the pursuit of its ideological policies as a necessary means to facilitate the return of the messianic Hidden Shia Imam, Mahdi. The doctrine claims that the Hidden Imam will one day return to restore justice to the world and, in doing so, will wage an apocalyptic war that will end the lives of infidels and Jews everywhere. Historic Shia narrations, on which this doctrine is based, claim that there will be rivers of Jewish blood. According to this doctrine, the biggest barrier to the return of the Hidden Imam is the existence of the State of Israel. The writer is director of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Research at United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI).