Since its inception, the Islamic Republic of Iran has been shaped not only by politics and power struggles but also by messianic ideas and apocalyptic motifs. Moments of crisis and confrontation – from the 1979 Revolution to the recent war with Israel – have always been accompanied by a sense that history is moving toward a cosmic reckoning. I would like to point to four key milestones in which messianism evolved from a purely religious notion into a formative political mechanism.Eve of the

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