{"id":80969,"date":"2026-03-02T08:46:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T13:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=80969"},"modified":"2026-03-02T08:46:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T13:46:11","slug":"chasing-the-apocalypse-radical-shiite-clerics-on-american-soil-preach-prophetic-showdown-wfith-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/chasing-the-apocalypse-radical-shiite-clerics-on-american-soil-preach-prophetic-showdown-wfith-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Chasing The Apocalypse: Radical Shiite Clerics On American Soil Preach Prophetic Showdown Wfith US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <em>Fox News<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">For many, the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/politics\/defense\/wars\/war-with-iran\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">war with Iran<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 and the killing of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei \u2014 might seem like the climactic end to a long, brutal reign of terror by the theological clerics who have run the country since 1979.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">But a Fox News Digital investigation reveals that, for certain hardline Shiite ideologues, including in the U.S., this is not an ending but a prophetic showdown that will usher in the arrival of the &#8220;Mahdi,&#8221; a messiah, according to Islamic eschatology, or the theology of end times. In this prophecy, Mahdi will emerge to battle Dajjal, the Islamic equivalent of the Antichrist, in a final battle of Armageddon. For many of these ideologues, President\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/person\/donald-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Donald Trump<\/a>\u00a0is Dajjal.<\/p>\n<div class=\"gsp_post_data\" \r\n\t            data-post_type=\"post\" \r\n\t            data-cat=\"news\" \r\n\t            data-modified=\"120\"\r\n\t            data-created=\"1772441171\"\r\n\t            data-title=\"Chasing The Apocalypse: Radical Shiite Clerics On American Soil Preach Prophetic Showdown Wfith US\" \r\n\t            data-home=\"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Fox News: For many, the\u00a0war with Iran\u00a0\u2014 and the killing of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei \u2014 might seem like the.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-80969","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80969\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}