October 26, 2005
Iran Volunteers to Test Israeli Nukes
Having not yet fully developed their own nuclear capabilities, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad seems intent on testing the capabilities of Israel's nuclear warheads... on the Iranian population:
"The establishment of the Zionist regime was a move by the world oppressor against the Islamic world," the president told a conference in Tehran on Wednesday, entitled The World without Zionism."The skirmishes in the occupied land are part of a war of destiny. The outcome of hundreds of years of war will be defined in Palestinian land," he said.
"As the Imam said, Israel must be wiped off the map," said Ahmadinejad, referring to Iran's revolutionary leader Ayat Allah Khomeini.
Are Syrian and Iranian leaders in some sort of a contest to see who gets deposed next?
That's a great headline.
Posted by: William Thrash at October 26, 2005 12:10 PMThat is so nice of them to do.
They deserve an award. :)
The minute Iran seems a credible nuclear threat, Persia will be wiped from the map with the flick of a nuclear pen.
And they will call US the madmen.
Fools.
Posted by: Laurence Simon at October 26, 2005 03:21 PMA war of destiny? Hmm, he's starting to sound like Nasser (or Saddam). Which means that Israel will thrash another Middle Eastern country's military shortly. Nasser just loved to make these grandiose claims about throwing the Jews into the sea, and even did so as he was getting whacked during 1967's Six Day War. That goaded Jordan into the fray, and they lost the West Bank and Jerusalem in three days time.
Every time a totalitarian regime in the Middle East comes out with these statements, it's another sign that they're about to lose a war.
If he simply left the fighting up to the proxy terrorist groups, Iran would be safe from attack until Iran can declare that they're officially a nuclear power. Now, Israel will have their eyes on Ahmadinejad himself.
Posted by: lawhawk at October 26, 2005 04:43 PMThat headline is funny.
The population of California is roughly 25 million. The population of Iraq is roughly 25 million. The murder rate in California has been 2000 people a year,the last three years. We have lost 2000 brave soldiers [total]to the war in Iraq in the past three years. Our soldiers seem to be safer in Iraq then they would be in California.
Posted by: david at October 27, 2005 05:08 PMOh good then, the Israeli's can turn them into glass parking lots. I was afraid that would have to be us.
Posted by: ron at October 27, 2005 09:39 PM"Westerners are free to comment, but their reactions are invalid. They are rude, falsely thinking that the whole world should be subordinate to them."
- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iranian president
Here's an overly simplistic, fantasy scenario
(that will never happen, of course). However, if the leaders of the world developed 1) intestinal fortitude; 2) an allergy to political correctness; and 3) a true understanding that power is there to be used, then following may be possible:
The leaders of the "Big Five" (U.S., Russia, Great Britain, France, China) get on a teleconference call with President Ahmadinejad at the same time. An interpreter tells Ahmadinejad that each of the five leaders has authorized the launching of a nuclear warhead towards five of Iran's most populous cities. He has one hour to agree to abandon all nuclear intentions and authorize the immediate dismantling of his nuclear and missile programs, as well as depose himself and abolish all laws against opposing political parties and sects.
After losing control of his bowels and realizing that that, suddenly, the opinion of the West is now "valid," he does precisely as the Big Five demand or, in his predictable radical Islam defiance, Iran becomes a glass parking lot.
Either way, the world becomes a bit more peaceful and civilized.
Remember, I said this idea was overly simplistic and a fantasy (yes, I understand the concepts of the tyranny of the few, nuclear oligarchy, the fact that Russia and China are in bed with Iran, no one would believe a French threat of force, etc.).
But isn't it fun to think about? :)
Posted by: Atticus_NC at October 29, 2005 08:12 AM