This is from Iran.com
see link below.

"Before the Imam's appearance, the people will be reprimanded for their acts
of disobedience by a fire that will appear in the sky and a redness that
will cover the sky. It will swallow up both Baghdad and Kufa. People's blood
will cover their destryed houses. Death will occur amid their people and a
fear will come over the people of Iraq from which they will have no rest--a
reason for the IRI's nuclear programme to blow in jets of fire and plumes of
smoke."

I am sure some of you know a similar scripture in Isaiah 17:1

An oracle concerning Damascus:
"See, Damascus will no longer be a city
but will become a heap of ruins.

The more accurate biblical translation is a perpetual ruins. That could only
happen through a nuclear hit.

I find it intersting that there is some sort of prophecy from Islam re the
same thing. The other city mentioned in the previous post is Kufa which is
in Iraq.

Kufa is one of three religiously important cities that lies in a cluster
south of Baghdad, together with Najaf and Karbala, the most important town
in Shi'i

http://www.iranian.com/Rashidian/2006/February/Myth/index.html