Iran (aka Persia) continues to move towards its destruction in accordance 
with Ezekiel 38 & 39:

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What drives Ahmadinejad?
Iranian president wants to set stage for appearance of Shiite messiah
 
Jonathan Halevi and Ashley Perry
Published:    06.17.08, 00:43 / Israel Opinion
 
Shiite Iran is striving to attain the position of regional superpower en 
route to becoming a significant nuclear power on the international stage. 

Iran openly challenges the West in its attempt to eject the Americans and
British from Iraq and attain hegemony in the Persian Gulf region, supported 
among other, by its military program, massively built up in recent years. 

The Iranian leadership talks of a "New Middle East" in response
to the West, 
which would be an Islamic Middle East in the mold of the Iranian inspired 
Islamic revolution.
 
Iran's political aspirations are driven by a deep religious zeal. President
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad repeatedly pledges "the imminent and evident liquidation 
of Israel," as a code word for the messianic fervor he shares with his 
spiritual mentor, Ayatollah Mohammad Taghi Mesbah Yazdi, one of the more 
radical ayatollahs, who subscribes to diplomatic and military activism to 
advance the global Islamic revolution spearheaded by Iran.

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Full article at "Ynet News"
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3556591,00.html

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