Chasing the apocalypse: Radical Shiite clerics on American soil preach prophetic showdown with US
Iranians have been seen celebrating the death of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khameini after joint US-Israeli strikes, but for certain hardline Shiite ideologues, this is not an ending but a prophetic showdown that will usher in the arrival of the "Mahdi," a messiah, and battle Dajjal, the Islamic equivalent of the Antichrist, in a final battle of Armageddon.