Negara Iran dan Imam Mahdi

Di Indonesia, isu Imam Mahdi terdengar sayup-sayup. Di kalangan masyarakat Jawa, tokoh ini lebih dikenal sebagai Ratu Adil, yang kedatangannya didahului oleh seorang Satrio Piningit. Pemimpin negara ini sibuk dengan isu Bank Century, KPK, lumpur Lapindo dan entah apalagi.
Sementara itu, isu Imam Mahdi hangat dibahas di Iran.

Presiden Iran, Ahmadinejad menuding Amerika menghalangi kedatangan Imam Mahdi:
http://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2009/12/07/93422.html

Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said he has documented evidence that the United States is doing what it can to prevent the coming of the Mahdi, the Imam that Muslims believe will be ultimate savior of mankind, press reports said Monday.
“We have documented proof that they [U.S.] believe that a descendant of the prophet of Islam will raise in these parts [Middle East] and he will dry the roots of all injustice in the world,” the hard-line president said, addressing an audience of families of those killed during the 1980’s war against Iraq.

Cendekiawan Iran minta Ahmadinejad berhenti membicarakan Imam Mahdi
http://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2008/05/07/49515.html

Iranian scholars have told President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to stick to more worldly issues after he said the “hidden imam” of Shiite Islam was directing the country’s affairs.
Ahmadinejad has always been a devotee of the Mahdi, the twelfth imam of Shiite Islam, who Shiites believe disappeared more than a thousand years ago and who will return one day to usher in a new era of peace and harmony.

Ahmadinejad dikritik karena menyatakan Imam Mahdi memimpin Iran
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/07/AR2008050703587.html

TEHRAN, May 7 — Several leading Iranian clerics criticized President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Wednesday for saying that the last imam of Shiite Islam, a messianic figure who Shiites believe was hidden by God 1,140 years ago, leads modern-day Iran.
“We see his hand directing all the affairs of the country,” Ahmadinejad told theological students in the city of Mashad during a speech that appears to have been given last month but was not broadcast until Tuesday. “A movement has started for us to occupy ourselves with our global responsibilities. God willing, Iran will be the axis of the leadership of this movement,” Ahmadinejad said.