evidence: Iran’s propaganda trumpets are presenting Soleimani as a Shiite version of a saint whose martyrdom deserves religious glorification as he joins the chain of shahids in Shiite history.6 For the first time in Iran’s history, a symbolic red flag representing revenge has been raised above the Jamkaran mosque in Qom above the well where, according to Shiite belief, the messianic Mahdi is hiding. According to Shiite belief, the Mahdi’s return is a symbol for expectations of revenge.7