Revolutionary youth in Iran are promised the violence that opens the pathway to martyrdom, salvation, futures, the 'true' fulfilment of Iranian citizenship, and the return of Messiah/Mahdi. The promise turns violence into the conduit of a set of felt relationships, where past, present, and future find meanings and continuity. The promise of violence is the Islamic Republic's yardstick with which to measure the citizenship and commitment of revolutionaries, inducing in them an improved way of being and instilling in them the substance to stand apart from the rest of Iranians, who oppose Islamism and militancy. This book is an ethnography of revolutionaries and Shia militancy, and depicts violence becoming the promissory something that is passed around among revolutionaries to bolster their commitments to Shi'ism, armed 'resistance', and the notion of citizenship per the Islamic Republic. Revolutionaries' political sensibilities, regardless of their age, social class, and generation, are configured in different scales by doing violence in the name of the state that claims to be the place-holder for the Messiah and his last war. The promise of violence is a political anthropology of the Islamic Republic of Iran utilising the 'collective' memory of Iran-Iraq War framed by Shi'ism, Shia Islamism, and its culture of martyrdom to articulate the promise and reticulate revolutionaries in doing violence.