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http://hnn.us/blogs/entries/127886.html


Sunnis, led by a Ottoman Calif or Nasser wannbe named Recep Tayyip Erdogan to aid the ambitions of their Shiah brethren should "rejoice" to read all about their plans for a 'Greater Iran':

The secretary-general of the Hezbollah-Iran organization, Ayatollah Mohammad Baqer Kharrazi, who is an elite member of Iran's Islamic regime,[1] recently published an article on the organization's website discussing the need to reestablish "Greater Iran," stretching from Palestine to Afghanistan and based on the pre-Islamic Persian Empire,[2] as a preparatory stage for the coming of the Mahdi – the Hidden Imam (the Shi'ite Messiah). In his article, Ayatollah Kharrazi stresses Iran's superiority over the Arabs and the other peoples in the region.
Ayatollah Kharrazi sets out in detail Hezbollah-Iran's manifesto.[3] The first stage involves the establishment of Greater Iran on the territory of the ancient Persian Empire; it will include the various ethnic groups and peoples in the Middle East, Central Asia, the Caucasus, and Afghanistan, and create a union of Islamic states, led by Iran. The unification of the states and peoples of these regions into Greater Iran will not be carried out by military occupation, he says, but peaceably, as in the case of the European Union.[4]

In subsequent stages, he writes, the Iranian Empire will face the transregional unions that belong to the 'arrogance' – i.e. the U.S. and Russia – and will unify the oppressed (mustazafin) into a global village to stand against the arrogant, in advance of the establishment of a global government headed by the Mahdi.

Ayatollah Kharrazi also discusses the question of why the Koran appeared in Arabic, not in Persian, and why the figures holy to Shi'ite Muslims, i.e. the Prophet himself and the Twelve Imams, were all Arabs, not Persians – in a way that reveals his hostility and arrogance towards the Arabs.

In his article, Ayatollah Kharrazi goes beyond the traditional Islamic-Shi'ite values of the Islamic Republic of Iran – chiefly, velayat-e faqih, or "rule of the jurisprudent," and belief in the messianic deliverance of the Shi'ia by the Hidden Imam (Mahdi) – and lays out the foundations of Greater Iran based on pre-Islamic Iranian-Persian nationalism and on pre-Islamic Persian empires, defining all the peoples who lived in those lands as Iranians.