Abbas Amanat

There were 11 of them.

The 12th is hidden and would come back at the end of the time.

This is a messianic figure.

So the title that was always used for them only in Shizim.

never used for any other person.

He is the first person in the revolution of 1979, first referred to as deputy of Imam, but the term deputy gradually disappeared and he became Imam Khomeini.

That's his official title.

But also the fact that it's in fact fulfillment in a kind of completely...

unintended fashion.

It's a fulfillment of that idea of a Messiah that they've been fighting for.

This Imam which is in a hidden for a thousand years is here and not here.

And therefore Khomeini would have, in a sense, fulfilled those anticipations.

But beyond that, I'll just give you one example.

I know that you may have other concerns.

But when I say elimination, at the end of the Iran-Iraq war, by the direct order of Ayatollah Khomeini, a fatwa that he wrote, a group of prisoners

who belong to variety of political parties, the left, religious left, majority of them, the Marxist left and the religious left.

in a matter of a few weeks or perhaps a few months, I'm not actually quite sure about the time span, in a series of, these were people who have already been tried and they were given sentences.

They were brought back before the summary trials of three judges or more, three, four of them.

One of them is now the

a new president of the Islamic Republic, Raisi.