Iranian official mentions the regime's desire for a Shiite "world government"

During the funeral for Mohammad Hejazi, the deputy commander of Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps’ Quds Force who died under mysterious circumstances on Sunday, an interesting statement was made by a prominent mourner.

Hejazi's commander, Brigadier General Ismail Qaani, said  "the resistance fronts today in Iran, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Yemen, and the sons of the resistance elsewhere take a big step every day in confronting enemies, including the United States and Israel, and they will continue to do so until they reach a world government."

A world government? Those are some pretty ambitious plans!

I found a 2013 article in the same news site that said:

Ali Motahari, the deputy in the Islamic Consultative Assembly in Iran, said: "We believe that Islam will rule the world and a single world government will be formed, but this does not mean that Iran wants to extend hegemony and power over all countries of the world by force, because this is illogical and impossible, but the world must understand Iran's message and the Islamic revolution."

Prominent Iranian cleric Ayatollah Hossan Ansarian wrote an entire article on the topic. He explains that the world government of the future will be Shiite, based on the messianic belief of the Mahdi, and it would be a strong central government that is "coherent, effective, capable and complete with efficient administration." Obviously, the only people who can run such a government are Shiite Muslims, which would be the world religion under this system.

One cannot analyze Iran without understanding the role of the Mahdi in its politics, and the desire for reaching this Shiite utopia in its decision-making.  

Anything that hastens the return of the Mahdi is by definition desirable - and that might include a nuclear bomb on the major obstacle to this dream. 

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