SPOILER ALERT !!! The last shall be first, and the first last > Matthew 20:16. Iran, the empire of empires aka the Persian Empire was founded by Cyrus the Great who went by the title of **King of Kings** and was the first true empire that set the standard of what it meant to be an empire for future ones and shaped the development of world civilizations.
According to the professionals our civilization started in ancient Iran AKA Mesopotamia (the land between the rivers). This is where the first civilization--that of Sumer-- appeared.
GOD warns that Iran (Persia), with Russia (Magog), and a coalition of allies (including Turkey, Libya, Sudan) will invade and go to war with Israel. Its out of this empire, The fist and last great Persian empire, that the most evil dictator ever known to man - the Antichrist - will arise.
