Oh well this is just perfect:

Saeed Jalili... is a known follower of Khomeini's "simple living" lifestyle philosophy. During his stint as a Foreign Ministry official, he served at a number of departments where, apparently, he did not make use of amenities made available to employees... Jalili is known to have worked until the early hours of the morning in his office in his efforts to strengthen the co-operation of Iran with Southern hemisphere countries. This was part of the "south-south" strategy, according to which it was believed that Ahmadinejad's government would be able to look for and find alliances with countries such as Venezuela.

It is also reported that that Ahmadinejad has consulted Jalili on a number of key moves... for most of his career at the Foreign Ministry, Jalili worked closely with Mojtaba Hashemi Samare, a leading messianic and a close ally of Ayatollah Mesbah Yazdi, the most well-known and high-ranking messianic cleric in Iran... Ayatollah Mesbah Yazdi is a former member of the Hojattieh, a messianic splinter group which was disbanded by Ayatollah Khomeini in the early 1980s because of its extremist views. The sect's goals are to sow chaos - the goal of which is to incite a massive war, presumably necessary to speed up the return of the Shi'ite messiah, known as the Mahdi.

After the forced disintegration of the sect, Mesbah Yazdi moved to the holy city of Qom, where he ran the Imam Khomeini Foundation and the Haghaniye school. From there, he passed on his messianic beliefs to young clerics and revolutionaries whom he hoped one day would reach senior government levels. One of his early successes was Hashemi Samare, who in the early 1990s managed to find a position inside Iran's Foreign Ministry... His main job there was to make sure that Iranian ambassadors were staying true to revolutionary beliefs... in his office, instead of a picture of Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Khamenei, he hung a portrait of the messianic Mesbah Yazdi.... Samare has looked for, and recruited fellow messianics. No one else would be allowed to work with him... one of these associates included... Ahmadinejad...

Jalili's closeness with Hashemi Samare, and his appointment as the head of Iran's Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) and as the head of Iran's nuclear negotiation team shows that the messianics have scored another major victory in placing one of their allies in a senior political position.

This guy is a true believer. He and his associates draw their lifestyle, their theology, and their politics from an organization that was disbanded by Khomeini for being too crazy. He really wants to bring about the destruction of the world.

The international community's response is leaning toward more negotiations and the threat - always the threat - of more sanctions that Iran has repeatedly blown off. But at least engagement will undermine the hardliners and bolster moderates. That's what foreign policy experts have been predicting for years, and look how well it's paid off. Just a couple more tries and everything will be OK.

References:
* Another major victory for messianics [JPost]
* Smug Liberal Sophistication Untroubled By Undeniable Evidence That Hardliners Are Winning In Iran [MR]

Previously:
* UN Sec-Gen Is Either Lying Or Very, Very Stupid
* Iran Declines To Contradict Every Single We Know About Iran, Will Instead Continue Building Nukes
* Iran Elected To UN Human Rights Council, Appointed To Plan Anti-Racism Conference. Hey, Why Not?