Speaking of the end of the world, Amir Taheri’s column in the New York Post today is interesting, particularly if it’s true: Mad Mullahs Puzzled Putin.

“EDUCATIONAL”: That’s how President Vladimir Putin’s entourage described the Russian’s recent whirlwind trip to Tehran.

Islamic Republic President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad hyped the 36-hour visit as a “historic event.” Some Western commentators even suggested that Putin and Ahmadinejad planned to create an axis to counter Western influence in the Middle East.

In fact, the visit seems to have persuaded Putin and his closest advisers that the Tehran leadership is culturally and temperamentally incapable of playing the classical Cold War-style power games that the Russians are interested in.

“This was the first time that Putin was talking to senior Islamic Republic leaders in a substantive and focused way,” says a senior Russian official familiar with what happened. “The president found his Iranian interlocutor weird, to say the least. The Iranians mouthed a lot of eschatological nonsense and came close to urging Putin to convert to Islam. It was clear they lived in a world of their own.”

You mean all this stuff about the Twelfth Imam isn’t just a gimmick to disguise the Iranian regime’s old-fashioned desire to just be a bigger player on the international scene?

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