Editing Imam Mahdi (section)

=== Contemporary Significance of Imam Mahdi ===
Iran's Supreme Leader [[Ayatollah Khomeini]] in 2015 had said that there would be no entity named "Israel" in 25 years.<ref>https://x.com/khamenei_ir/status/641520641724780544</ref> It is symbolic because of the reason that JCPOA agreement or Iran Nuclear Deal happened in the year of 2015, which, basically, really aims to limit Iran's civilian nuclear program (uranium enrichment) so that it cannot be used for military purposes such as acquiring nuclear weapons. 

Going by the timeline set by Iran's Supreme Leader, the limit of Israel's destruction is 2040 and the Shia scholars argue that Imam Mahdi would come, but in odd year i.e. 1,3,5,7,9 which translates into years like 2025, 2027, 2029, 2031, and so on till 2040.<ref>[https://www.al-islam.org/life-imam-al-mahdi-baqir-shareef-al-qurashi/time-and-venue-reappearance-his-eminence-master-age#:~:text=Abu%20Basir%20(a.r)%20narrated%20from%20Imam%20Jafar%20Sadiq%20(a.s.)%20that%20he%20said%2C%20%E2%80%9COur%20Qaim%20(a.s.)%20shall%20not%20reappear%20but%20in%20an%20odd%20numbered%20year%2C%20like%20one%2C%20three%2C%20five%2C%20seven%20or%20nine%2C%20on%20the%20day%20of%20Ashura%20and%20(it%20would%20be)%20a%20Saturday. https://www.al-islam.org/life-imam-al-mahdi-baqir-shareef-al-qurashi/time-and-venue-reappearance-his-eminence-master-age#:~:text=Abu%20Basir%20(a.r)%20narrated%20from%20Imam%20Jafar%20Sadiq%20(a.s.)%20that%20he%20said%2C%20%E2%80%9COur%20Qaim%20(a.s.)%20shall%20not%20reappear%20but%20in%20an%20odd%20numbered%20year%2C%20like%20one%2C%20three%2C%20five%2C%20seven%20or%20nine%2C%20on%20the%20day%20of%20Ashura%20and%20(it%20would%20be)%20a%20Saturday.]</ref> Moreover, Shia scholars emphasize the role of importance of Iran (Persians) in liberation (of Palestine) and destruction of Israel, they also allude to the fact that there will be events which are of challenging nature in Iran like the death of Mahsa Amini, the terrible war between Isarel and Palestine, all before the arrival of last Imam. 

It is well known Iran has so-called "proxies" which are hostile to Israel such as Yemen's 'Houthis', Lebanon's 'Hezbollah', and Palestine's 'Hamas'. It should also be noted that Hamas' founder Yassin had said something similar to what the Shia scholars say: Yassin in 1999 had ''in an interview with Al-Jazeera journalist Ahmed Mansour that Israel would be "gone" by 2027. He said that Israel was founded upon injustice and plunder and it is destined to be destroyed.''<ref>https://www.memri.org/tv/jazeera-interview-hamas-founder-sheikh-ahmed-yassin-will-be-no-israel-by-twenty-seven#:~:text=On%20June%205%2C%201999%2C%20Hamas,is%20destined%20to%20be%20destroyed</ref>