On February 22, 2006 during MIT ISG Lecture Series, Dr. Trita Parsi gave a lecture entitled 'Israel and Iran – Ideological Foes or Strategic Rivals?'.
As an Iranian intellectual well-versed on the Iranian and the Middle Eastern political affairs, he knows in depth what really had happened behind closed doors between the seemingly hostile Middle Eastern powers, Iran and Israel. It is interesting to note that both are two of the three non-Arab nations amidst the overwhelmingly majority Arab Middle Eastern region.
'Chapter of the Cave' (Arabic 'Surah Al-Kahf') of the Holy Quran which the Prophet Muhammad strongly advised Muslims to recite during the advent of the Antichrist (Islamic 'Al-Masih Ad-Dajjal') consists of several true stories narrated by God Himself, and among those stories are Men of the Cave who escaped oppression of a tyrant as well as the travels of a just King whom the Quran refered to as 'The Two-Horned One' (Quranic 'Zulqarnain').
We believe 'Chapter of the Cave' provides secret codes to the understanding of who the Antichrist is as well as how and where he will appear. Research by contemporary Islamic scholars, among them Abul Kalam Azad of the Indian subcontinent proved the long accepted 'fact' that Zulqarnain is Alexander the Great, otherwise. Abul Kalam subsequently argued that it was actually Cyrus the Great, whom God called ' Zulqarnain' in the Quran. Cyrus is considered the Founder of the greatest empire ever existed in the history of the Globe, which was the Persian empire during its heights. He had always been a monotheist believing in the teachings of Zoroaster, a great ancient Persian prophet, and allowed freedom of religions throughout his wide empire. He was looked upon by his dominions as 'liberator' rather than conquerer.
Cyrus the Great allowed the Jews during his time to return to Jerusalem and rebuild the Temple of Solomon. The Jews regarded him as their 'Messiah' despite his Aryan non-Semitic genealogy. Thus, even during the ancient times, there had been close political relationship fostered between Iranians (at the time Persians) and the Israelis (Children of Israel during Cyrus's time), and interestingly that closeness recurs within Shah's era.
The lecture by Dr. Parsi will reveal how that close and open relationship during Shah transforms into 'close but secret' one as soon as Khomeini came into power in 1979.
Please watch the documentary here.
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