"He really needs to study up. I know he's a world reknown end times scholar, but Persia (Iran) isn't even mentioned in the battle at the plain of Meggido (Armeggedon)." ******The Schaff-Herzog Encyclopaedia of Religious Knowledge, citing ancient Assyrian writings, places the location of the land of Magog in the land mass between ancient Armenia and Media, in short, the Republics south of Russia and north of Israel, comprised of Azerbaijan, Afghanistan, Turkistan, Chechnya, Turkey, Iran and Dagestan. Significantly, all of these nations are Muslim nations today. Daniel 9:27 says that anti messiah will come from the same place that the legions did that destroyed Jerusalem in 70 CE i.e. the end-time revised Ottoman Empire in the person of anti-messiah, coming from Turkey, the eastern leg of the Roman Empire and the same place the 70 CE legions came from.
Revelation 17
1. Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and talked with me, saying to me, "Come, I will show you the judgment of the great harlot who sits on many waters. Persian Gulf Arabian Sea Red Sea Gulf of Aden Gulf of Oman Mediterranean Sea Caspian Sea Black Sea.