Donna,

I agree with you about Micah 5 showing that the antichrist is somehow referred to as the Assyrian.

The connections of prince and king, as well as all those areas that had been under the Assyrina empire at one time, was very good.

Perhaps you may be correct about Pahlavi.

If Iran overthrows the shiite dictatorship of the ayatollahs and the mullahs, the young people there may turn 180 degrees from the ayatollahs.

Then, maybe, they would, instead, make peace with Israel, which the ayatollahs hated.

And maybe Pahlavi would imitate his ancient Persian predecessor, Cyrus, and grant that Israel be allowed to rebuild their temple.

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