Iran. It also claims that the fighting will "bring great strife and darkness into the world". The version of events is revealed in Yalkut Yishayau, a book published in 1939 based on a section of the Yalkut Shimoni, a compilation of Jewish commentary on the Bible believed to have been composed in the 13th century.
The text reads: "Rabbi Yitzchak said: 'In the year that the Messiah will be revealed, all of the leaders of the nations will provoke each other. "The king of Persia will provoke the king of Arabia, and the king of Arabia will go to Edom to receive advice from them. "And the king of Persia will go and destroy the entire world, and all the nations of the world will shake and panic and fall on their faces and feel contractions like.
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