Iran: Leading Iran Forward
9 minutes, 2005
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Exclusive: We have an exclusive from Iran. We go inside the mind of the man preparing his country for the Second Coming. The Iranian government says it is building two more nuclear reactors, another sign that it has no interest in placating western fears that the Islamic republic may be building a bomb. Now we have obtained footage which shows the new President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, claiming that he was surrounded by a divine light when he addressed the UN Security Council in September. And he's recently said that all his country's policies should be based on the Second Coming of a mystical religious figure. We have been to Tehran, and to the Jamkaran shrine just outside the holy city of Qom to find out how the President's messianic devotion to the Shi'a Muslim saint, the Mahdi, is shaking up the country.