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Hojjatieh - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Hojjatieh is a semi-clandestine Iranian organization which is radically anti-Bahá'í and anti-Sunni. The Hojjatieh is more of an anarchic-Islamic group than the typical Islamic fundamentalist group. The current president of Iran Mahmud Ahmadinejad is rumored to be an advocate of this group, though this has not been confirmed anywhere. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hojjatieh   (146 words)

RFE/RL Iran Report One indication of a recent Hojjatieh resurgence was a statement by government spokesman Abdullah Ramezanzadeh during an 8 January press conference that any members of the Hojjatieh Society who infiltrate the government would be dealt with in the same way as other citizens, "Iran Daily" reported the next day. The Hojjatieh renaissance was also in the news in the summer of 2002. Hojjatieh's opposition to the formation of an Islamic government because it might delay the return of the Hidden Imam, Malekian wrote, was similar to the intellectual and liberal reformers' opposition to an Islamic government and preference for a democratic republic. www.globalsecurity.org /wmd/library/news/iran/2003/3-200103.htm   (5943 words)

National Union For Democracy In Iran   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-16) The group flourished during the 1979 revolution that ousted the Shah and installed an Islamic government in his place, and was banned in 1983 by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the father of the revolution. Khomeini objected to the Hojjatieh's rejection of his doctrine of velayat-e faqih (Guardianship of the Jurist) and its conviction that chaos must be created to hasten the coming of the Mahdi, the But whether the Hojjatieh is being resurrected by its former adherents or is being used as a battering ram by those Iranian politicians opposed to the current government, its reappearance coincides with a Shi'ite resurgence across the region and a new era of conservative factional infighting in Tehran. en.nufdi.org /articles/Article_mainf.cfm?Article=148   (1403 words)

[No title] Mesbah-Yazdi nicknamed the "alligator", amongst the Iranian population, is a chief ideologue of the Hojjatieh group who was actually made redundant during Khomeini's years but let me explain how he rose to power. On the surface, the role of this institute is to spread the teachings of Khomeini. One thing is for certain though, with all the oil money, and now all the key power positions in their hand, and most importantly the nuclear technology, things have never looked so good for the Hojjatieh group to plan the coming of the Lord of All Ages, the Imam Zaman, the Mehdi. www.faithfreedom.org /oped/PotkinAzarmehr50817.htm   (727 words)

Asia Times Online Community and News Discussion - Weirdo as president of Iran Founded in 1953 and used by the Shah of Iran to try to eradicate followers of the Bahai faith, the Hojjatieh Society is governed by the conviction that the 12th Imam's return will be hastened by the creation of chaos on earth. Ahmadinejad, who is only the second non-cleric to become president since the revolution, has made clear his immense respect for Ayatollah Mohammad Taghi Mesbah-Yazdi, a deeply conservative cleric with close ties to the Hojjatieh-founded Haqqani theological school in Qom. Haqqani's continued links to Hojjatieh, though rumored, have not been proven and it remains one of the most prestigious theological schools in Qom. forum.atimes.com /topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=4639   (319 words)

IRVAJ English - After that, the Hojjatieh Society entered a period of relative inactivity, although the same cannot be said of Falsafi. The Hojjatieh Society enjoyed a revival after the 1978-1979 Islamic revolution; fearing a communist takeover, Sheikh Mahmud Halabi urged his followers to vote in favor of Vilayat-i Faqih in the December 1979 referendum on the country's form of government. On the sidelines of the 9 March legislative session, Tehran representative Ali Shakuri-Rad allegedly said that the Hojjatieh Society should be licensed as a political party, "Resalat" reported on 10 March ("Towseh" put this into context on 10 March, when it reported that Shakuri-Rad was comparing his political opponents to the Hojjatieh Society). www.iranvajahan.net /cgi-bin/news.pl?l=en&y=2004&m=09&d=17&a=3   (1423 words)

Mohammad Ali Abtahi - Media - Articles Tavassoli voiced alarm that the leaders of Hojjatieh group were now practically in control of the executive branch and the Revolutionary Guards, and that the new President-elect was under their domination”, the pro-Rafsanjani official, who requested anonymity for fear of retribution, said. Hojjatieh was a semi-clandestine religious and political group that was set up in the early 1950s in Halabi nominally dissolved the group in 1983 to conform with Ayatollah Khomeini’s decree against “partisan politics” in the Islamic Republic, but Hojjatieh members retained their network and the group remained a player within the theocratic regime. www.webneveshteha.com /en/media.asp?id=-947922715   (683 words)

Bob: Popper's Troll-man Thing: Mr Bush not the stupidest national leader: shock   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-16) On this last point, of incredible importance if this speculation is true, Hojjatieh are radically anti-Sunni and anti-Baha'i, and played no small part in the persectution and murdering of members of the Baha'i Faith under the Shah. That his actions coincide perfectly with the Hojjatieh notion that post-Revolution Iran can intentionally engender global chaos to hasten prophecy is fearsome, loathsome, awesome in its possible implications. This is a leader, seeking enriched uranium, who--whether he really sympathises with Hojjatieh or not--is certainly acting very much in a manner that will bring about a 'great chaos', and is presiding over a country that is slipping closer and closer toward a resurgence of violence against religious minorities including Baha'is. bob.seldo.com /archives/2005/12/mr_bush_not_the.html   (694 words)

Mohammad Taghi Mesbah Yazdi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Some politicians believe that they will be more active in the cultural and political events in the near future. Ayatollah Mesbah Yazdi is the highest ranking figure in Hojjatieh group. Ayatollah Khomeini actually frowned the Hojjatieh and the group was nominally dissolved in 1983, yet they secretly continued to maintain and strengthen their network. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mohammad_Taghi_Mesbah_Yazdi   (547 words)

[No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-16) Khomeini also outlawed a semi-clandestine group called the Hojjatieh, which emerged during the revolution, and whose members believe that total chaos must be created in order to hasten the return of the Mahdi and the establishment of Islamic rule throughout the world. Since Khomeini's death, however, the Hojjatieh has reportedly re-emerged in various sectors of the regime, including the Revolutionary Guard, the elite parallel army that was established to protect the Islamic revolution and that bore the brunt of the fighting in the Iran-Iraq war. In the past decade, at the same time as Hojjatieh re-emerged as a secretive force around the fringes of the regime, the cult of the hidden imam gained in popularity, mostly but not exclusively among Iran's lower classes. oldmanclub3.persianblog.com   (3863 words)

For a democratic secular Iran. For peace and prosperity in the Middle East.: More on the Messianic Hojjatieh Sect More and more public figures in the Islamic Republic are hinting at their unease about the clandestine Messianic Hojjatieh group, taking over all the positions of power in the Islamic Republic. The global dangers of this new messianic sect- the Hojjatieh sect- who are now in control of Iran and eventually the nuclear power - are alarming for all those who understand the realities of Iranian politics. Yet it was precisely the eight years of Khatami's government that allowed this sect to regroup and to reorganize their network of power and influence. azarmehr.blogspot.com /2005/08/more-on-messianic-hojjatieh-sect.html   (492 words)

BrothersJudd Blog: KHOMEINISM IS DEVIANT: When mild-mannered former Iranian president Mohammad Khatami lashed out in a post-election sermon at the "powerful organization" behind the "shallow-thinking traditionalists with their Stone-Age backwardness" currently running the country, it became clear that Iran's political establishment is worried by the ideology propelling the government of new hardline President Mahmud Ahmadinejad. Khomeini objected to the Hojjatieh's rejection of his doctrine of velayat-e faqih (Guardianship of the Jurist) and its conviction that chaos must be created to hasten the coming of the Mahdi, the 12th Shi'ite imam. Such shallow Stone Age thinking is the key to our system and the separation of Church and State--the future of Shi'a republicanism depends on these ideas but also on a recognition that rather than chaos what precedes the 12th Imam is a period of necessarily imperfect rule by the people. www.brothersjudd.com /blog/archives/2005/09/khomeinism_is_d.html   (321 words)

Iran’s President and the Politics of the Twelfth Imam by John von Heyking   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-16) Ayatollah Khomeini banned the group in the early 1980s because they rejected one of the primary commitments of the Iranian revolution: the concept of Vilayat-i Faqih (Guardianship of the Jurist). Today, in addition to the possibility of Ahmadinejad himself being a member (or a former member), the group has connections to Qom ultraconservative cleric Mesbah Yazdi whom Iranians frequently refer to as the "crazed one" and the "crocodile." Four of the twenty-one new cabinet ministers are purportedly Hojjatieh members. The Hojjatieh’s belief in humans’ power to effect his return, which, to repeat, are unorthodox for Shi’ites, should be of grave concern for everyone. www.ashbrook.org /publicat/guest/05/vonheyking/twelfthimam.html   (1484 words)

The American Spectator Using this belief as their guide, Hojjatieh members refused to become involved in the 1979 Revolution, believing the Shah's missteps to be the perfect spark for the return of the Mahdi. However, it is widely believed that the philosophy of Hojjatieh survives, espoused by numerous theological schools in Iran, the most prestigious being the Hojjatieh-founded Haqqani school in Qom. The idea that such a man, mesmerized by stagnant and violent myth, could soon gain access to nuclear weapons, is simply unconscionable, especially considering the tragic historical precedent of allowing certifiable madmen to gain access to the instruments of mass destruction. www.spectator.org /dsp_article.asp?art_id=9149   (1123 words)

skepticaltheurgist :: Ayatollodromia That's a pity, because he may well be a dangerous man. As a leading light in Hojjatieh, he shares much in common with American Christian fundamentalists who pray that the world goes further into mayhem and misery so that the End Times can roll. All that's necessary is for a major conflict to break out in the Valley of Megiddo, not far from Jerusalem, and voila - it's a wrap. Hojjatieh is a group founded in Iran a half-century ago that looks for the same kind of death-and-disaster scenario, except it believes the Mahdi (or Mehdi), the 'occluded' 12th Imam will come back, not Jesus. skepticaltheurgist.blogharbor.com /blog/_archives/2005/10/19/1310553.html   (564 words)

Harmony Central User Forums - Mullaharky- IRANPrez...Reined in by the Regime He is affiliated with the Hojjatieh movement, which is preparing for the return of the 12th imam, who disappeared down a well in the ninth century. Thus, in supporting a president who venerates the missing imam above all else and who increasingly holds the loyalty of fundamentalist militants, "Khamenei made a deal with a devil far more powerful than he ever imagined," says Abbas Milani, an Iran expert at Stanford University. Hojjatieh is also said to believe that creating chaos on earth is a virtue, helping to prepare the way for the imam's second coming. acapella.harmony-central.com /showthread.php?s=cfba47637c30205f5b0c3fb74b38b0ac&threadid=1099870   (395 words)

Iran: Preparing For The Next Big Vote The replacement of state officials by Ahmadinejad appointees, furthermore, has led to claims that the Hojjatieh Society, which was banished in 1983, is enjoying a revival. This society espouses similar views on the return of the Hidden Imam, and this would not be the first time that there are claims of a Hojjatieh comeback. According to this school of thought, the new members of the assembly would engineer Mesbah-Yazdi's ascent to the leadership. www.payvand.com /news/05/dec/1014.html   (1128 words)

Western Resistance: Iran: Messianic Influences of Islamist Leader Who Attacks Israel - Again The article suggests that his belief in the return of Abul-Qassem, who is also called the Mahdi is tied in with a secretive society which was founded in 1953, called the Hojjatieh Society, which was banned in the early 1980s. The belief of the Hojjatieh Society is that the way to hasten the return of the Mahdi, the 12th Imam, is to create chaos in the world. If his spiritual guru believes that chaos is the way to bring on a messianic transcendence, then President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who is already adding to the sum total of the world's chaos, could be more dangerous than any other leader. www.westernresistance.com /blog/archives/001216.html   (1777 words)

"Factionalism in Iran's Domestic Security Forces" (February 2002) Then there is the Mahdaviyat group, which was accused of trying to assassinate several government officials and had ties to the IRGC. Mahdaviyat apparently was based on the extremist Hojjatieh Society. Hojjatieh was dissolved in 1983, but many of its members were absorbed into the hard-line Islamic Coalition Association, which still is active in Iranian politics. www.meib.org /articles/0202_me2.htm   (2667 words)

Asia Times Online :: Middle East News, Iraq, Iran current affairs Shiravi - like most of Tehran's secular elite - is terrified of Ahmadinejad's godfather, Ayatollah Mesbah Yazdi in Qom, who "believes he can convert all of America to Shi'ism" and who issued a fatwa ordering all of the alleged 20 million bassijis to vote for Ahmadinejad. He's above all the grandmaster of the isolationist Hojjatieh sect (something he always denies), which was pushed out of government by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in the early stages of the revolutionary government. Shiravi reflects current consensus among Western diplomatic circles in Tehran that the presidential election was a silent coup - carried by the Revolutionary Guard and the Hojjatieh, with support from bassijis - the so-called "army of 20 million". atimes.com /atimes/Middle_East/GI15Ak02.html   (2361 words)

Replies Hasanzadegan described the society as "the embodiment of obscurantism." An editorial in the 1 September 2002 issue of the conservative "Kayhan" newspaper took a very different tack when discussing reports of renewed political activity by the Hojjatieh Society. Therefore it is a complete lie when they say they have become active again." It is difficult to verify if the Hojjatieh Society really has become more active as an organization or if recent warnings about it relate to something completely different and this is another case of governmental scapegoating. Members of the Hojjatieh Society, according to Radio Farda, are followers of the Iranian-born but Al-Najaf-based Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani http://www.radiofarda.com/en_news.aspx?mm=7anddd=11andyy=2004#top. www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1226614/replies?c=25   (1370 words)

IRAN & Twelfth Imam - Sean Hannity Discussion Shi’ite orthodoxy has it that humans are powerless to encourage the Twelfth Imam to return. However, in Iran a group called the Hojjatieh believe that humans can stir up chaos to encourage him to return. Four of the twenty-one new cabinet ministers are purportedly Hojjatieh members. www.hannity.com /forum/showthread.php?p=1189433#post1189433   (1188 words)

Iran Focus-Iran’s Rafsanjani renews firestorm over election fraud - Special Wire - News Mesbah, who said that Iran has not had a truly Islamic government since the 1979 Islamic Revolution”, Abtahi wrote. Hojjatieh was a semi-clandestine religious and political group that was set up in the early 1950s in Iran by Sheikh Mahmoud Tavallai, popularly known as Sheikh Halabi, an extremist Shiite cleric who founded the group to eradicate members of the Baha’i faith. The group became prominent after the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran, as many of its members rose to influential positions. www.iranfocus.com /modules/news/article.php?storyid=2898   (734 words)

RADIO FREE EUROPE/ RADIO LIBERTY Government spokesman Abdullah Ramezanzadeh said during an 8 January press conference that any members of the Hojjatieh Society who infiltrate the government will be dealt with in the same way as other citizens, "Iran Daily" reported the next day. The newspaper also quoted Assembly of Experts member Hashem Hashemzadeh-Harisi as saying that the infiltration of the government by radicals from groups like the Hojjatieh Society undermines the search for national solidarity and threatens the Islamic system. The Hojjatieh Society was founded in the 1950s as an anti-Bahai group, and it was ordered to disband in 1983. www.rferl.org /newsline/2003/01/6-SWA/swa-140103.asp   (2312 words)

Townhall.com :: Firebrand? He's nuts and he's after nukes by Jonah Goldberg Dec 23, 2005   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-16) Seriously challenging Iran just strikes a lot of people as too much to fit on the American plate right now, so we prefer to call Ahmadinejad an "unlikely firebrand" instead of a murderous fanatic. But whatever we call him, it won't change the fact that Iran is pursuing nuclear weapons and that Ahmadinejad is a particularly kooky religious fanatic (possibly a member of the Hojjatieh, which seeks to foment global chaos in order to hasten the arrival of the messianic 12th imam). In response to Ahmadinejad's comments, the world has responded with only slightly more outrage than it would if he'd called for trade barriers on pistachios. townhall.com /print/print_story.php?sid=180241&loc=/opinion/columns/jonahgoldberg/2005/12/23/180241.html   (697 words)

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