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My latest: What Israelis can learn from the nightmares of an Iranian hangman The deeper lesson is how Iran repeatedly scales the death penalty to reconstitute political order from within. While different in magnitude from 1988's mass executions, the 2025 surge held to the same template—eliminating those cast as threats to the regime's theocratic mandate. Quote tweet: You'll know, likely, of Raisi's central role in the 1988 mass execution and the horrific human rights catastrophe of Shi'i Islamism, at home, since then. Such horrors aside, Twelver Shi'ism nonetheless remains indivisibly crucial to the propitious advent of world resurrection. Indeed, it's perhaps fair to claim that Twelver Shi’ism’s understanding of the ontology of the Hidden Imam - a precise correlative, as it happens, to what Westerners refer to as 'the sunburst of the messianic' - represents a profoundly coherent, esoteric, Semitic interpretation of the evolutionary ontology of the unifying prophetic concordance of 'Qiyamat al-Qiyamat', the Resurrection, insurrection or uprising of ‘apocalypsis’, Blake’s ‘Jerusalem’. On a related note, I picked up on some peculiar responses to the then president of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's speech to the UN on September 26, 2012, which appeared to confuse the bejeezus out of every western commentator who reported on it. So I took a look at the full transcript of his address and, it transpires his speech amounted to a lucid, full-blooded effort to introduce the eschatology of Twelver Shi'ism into global political consciousness. (thetruthseeker.co.uk/?p=57189) I'm not entirely sure that Ahmadinejad quite understood what the evolutionary implications of the appearance of the twelfth and final imam would be for his regime. 35 years of state-religion sponsored atrocities (which include the torture and murder of Sufis and the destruction of Sufi centers) hardly suggest an ontological resilience for the Iranian state (Peter Lamborn Wilson: "Shi'ism in triumph has turned out as dismal and terrifying as if Cotton Mather and Dr Mengele had cooked it up to torment a conquered foe") nor its actors (Hillman: "Anyone who rises in a world that worships success should be suspect, for this is an age of psychopathy. The psychopath of today no longer slinks like a dirty rat through the dark alleys of black-and-white 1930s crime films, but parades through the boulevards in a bullet-proof limo on state visits, runs entire nations, and sends delegates to the UN. Hitler is therefore old-style and can divert us from seeing through the mask worn by the demonic today, and tomorrow. The demonic that is timeless nonetheless enters the world disguised in contemporary fashion, dressed to kill"). But then again, the Divine Propagandist works in mysterious ways.