IRAN. Jamkaran. Pilgrims drop handwritten petitions to the 12th Imam of the Shia sect, Abul-Qassem Muhammad, who occulted himself in the year 941 and is to return as the Mahdi, or Shia messiah. He is believed still alive and living in a well below. President AHMADINEJAD expects the return of the Hidden Imam to bring justice to the world at the "End of Times".