Masbah Yazdi has issued a Fatwa to kill Mousavi and Karobi

IranPressNews.com

Mazbah Yazdi, Ahmadinejad's spiritual guide, has issued a fatwa allowing to kill those who ran against Ahmadinejad in Iran's presidential elections and who now wish to contest the election results - Mir Mousavi and Karobi (but not Razai, who is also contesting the election results). According to Yazdi, Mousavi and Karobi are preventing Ahmadinejad from proceeding with his "Divine mission" of speeding up the coming of the Messiah, Imam Mahdi.

Yazdi also said in the fatwa that the other candidates must accept the election results and that the riots, public upheaval, financial damage and the breaching of the sovereign power are undermining the will of God. One source says that the Leader Khamenei knows about the Fatwa and he decided not to intervene. Yazdi, who is behind Leader Khamenei's statement that the election results are an "act of God," said that at the outset he had been of the opinion that Mousavi and Karobi should not have been allowed to run in the elections given their stand on the issue of "the rule by a religious sage."

Yazdi has already issued a fatwa that allows rigging the election results in order to increase Ahmadinejad's chances to win. As far as Yazdi is concerned, there is no moral problem with tipping the election results in Ahmadinejad's favor. (The fatwa was exposed by senior Interior Ministry officials and is posted on the "Roz" website on 6 June 2009). In Yazdi's inner circle, it is said that he is particularly angry about the statement (albeit not a fatwa) made by the reformist cleric Ayatollah Saneyi, one of the senior religious authorities in Qom, who declared that Iran's elections were illegal, that Ahmadinejad was not the President, and that cooperating with his government in any way was forbidden.

Yazdi is a radical figure in the Iranian religious establishment and his religious views are even more extreme, in certain aspects, than the official ideology of the Islamic republic. Reportedly, there are indications of connections between Yazdi and the Hojatieh association, as well as his self-perception as a religious and spiritual authority that is exalted more than Khamenei. Mesbah Yazdi has significant influence over the Iranian president Ahmadi-Nejad and is considered his spiritual mentor, patron, and someone who seems to be helping him in making his decisions.

Ahmadi-Nejad's is a member in the Hojatieh, and as such his belief is in taking action to hasten the coming of who will return to the world and lead the Islamic nation, but only after the evil and exploitation will overcome in the world (the Islamic equivalent to Armageddon).

The Hojatieh association believes that the return of the 12th Imam in the Shiite dynasty (the missing Imam)1, will be brought about by chaos and injustice, and it strives to bring on the end - which is, against prevailing Shiite belief. The Hojatieh does not accept the principle of Velayat Faqih (clerical rule) hence the association was banned in Iran. Khomeini banned it in 1983 because he saw it as an ideological threat to the nascent Islamic Republic.

Ahmadi-Nejad's is not hiding his beliefs. In a speech to clerics in November 2005, the president said: "The main objective of the Revolution is to pave the way for the reappearance of the Twelfth Imam... "we must define our economic, cultural and political policies in accordance with the policies of the return of the Imam." Even in his United Nations address, the president claimed that the "Mahdi is the Messiah" and called for the world to join Iran in anticipation of his return.

On his return from the United Nations Assembly, Ahmadi-Nejad told Ayatollah Amoli (in a conversation that was video-taped and broadcasted in the media), that one Abu AI-Qassem Muhammad, who the Shiites see as the offspring of the Prophet Muhammad. He disappeared in 941 and will return as a Messiah (Mahdi) and will herald an era of Islamic justice. According to Shiite canon, the 12th Imam disappeared after the death of AI-Hassan AI-Askari (the 11th Imam). AI-Hassan AI-Askari's son, as a child, entered a cave in the basement of their house in Samarra (100 kms. north of Baghdad) and was not seen again. The traditional Shiite school propounds that the end must not be hastened, and that action must not be taken to bring the Messiah.

Even Khomeini, in his new ideology mixing religion and politics, did not explicitly deviate from this tenet. He identified the intrinsic damage potential to Shia as a whole, that is, blow of disappointment when the move proves futile. of his escorts had told him that when he said the words "in the name of Allah, the merciful" in the course of his speech, a halo and light appeared around him. The president said that he had felt it himself and that after saying these words he also felt that the atmosphere had changed: "In these twenty-seven or twenty-eight minutes, the leaders of the world did not blink... an invisible hand held them and opened their eyes to receive the message of the Islamic Republic" he said.

Thus, the head of the president's bureau, Gholam Hossein Alham, denied (ILNA news report, 23/11/05) that Ahmadi-Nejad belongs to the fanatic Hojatieh, and stated that Nejad is dedicated to the idea of Islamic rule. Later, acting on his advisers' advice, Ahmadi-Nejad himself (Sharq, 28/12/05), denied his membership in the Hojatieh or having any special connection to Mesbah Yazdi.