16:50 Elica Le Bon The regime in Iran subscribes to Twelver Shia Islam. So the reason it is called Twelver Shia Islam is because they believe that the descendants of the original prophet Muhammad is not the correct lineage of the prophet, it’s of his son-in-law and cousin. So the Twelfth Imam, which was prophet Mahdi, so there is a theory called Mahdism. This prophet Mahdi was said to have gone into occultation, he went into hiding around 937 CE. So he’s gone into hiding, he’s gone into occultation and the theory is that the final prophet emerges once justice and equality has been achieved in the world, and the thing that achieves this justice is that the last drop of blood of Israel falls. So the end of Israel brings back the final prophet.
Konstantin Kisin: Ahh, I’ve never heard this. It’s fascinating. So it is a religious thing. That’s a prophecy. So they need to destroy Israel.
Elica Le Bon: So they need to destroy Israel. Correct.
