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We have heard it before and chances are we will hear it again. The play on words when it comes to Iran’s nuclear inten­tions couldn’t get any more absurd than if your favorite comic book vil­lain leaped from the pages and spoke it. Just yes­ter­day, the head of Iran’s Atomic Energy Agency announced the coun­try is inten­si­fy­ing its explo­ration and dis­cov­ery. Really? I think what he really meant is that the coun­try is ratch­et­ing up their effort to com­mit mass exter­mi­na­tion and det­o­na­tion. I mean after all, it’s not as if Iran­ian Pres­i­dent Mah­moud Ahmadine­jad recently unveiled a life sav­ing med­ical device. Oh no, he unveiled his solu­tion to pro­mote “peace and friend­ship” – a weapon that he so poet­i­cally named the “Ambas­sador of Death.” I sup­pose the next release will be the “Sul­tan of Doom” or the “King of Casualty.”

It just doesn’t get any more absurd than that. I blogged here that Ahmadine­jad is a mod­ern day com­par­i­son to the fic­tional Dr. Evil from the Austin Pow­ers comedic film tril­ogy and yet the truth is – you just can’t make up this stuff. Yes, Oscar Wilde was right on for empha­siz­ing how: life imi­tates art far more than art imi­tates life. What leader of any pro­gres­sive coun­try would be dumb enough to name their weapon of mass destruc­tion the “Ambas­sador of Death.” It just doesn’t bode well with civ­i­lized soci­ety. Unless of course, you’re a seven-year-old delin­quent or you suck at brand­ing because you’re one of Batman’s fic­tional vil­lains like the Joker, the Rid­dler or Mr. Freeze.

Then while Ahmadine­jad (aka Armaged­don) shared his vision of “peace and friend­ship” to the West­ern media last week­end he for­got how he also told the Mid­dle East­ern media that any attack on Iran would have world­wide con­se­quences. Next, came the annouce­ment of his mass assault boats. Well, so much for “peace and friend­ship.” This kind of dou­ble rhetoric is com­mon among ter­ror­ist fac­tions that aim to deceive the West, through actions or dona­tions or both. Is Ahmadine­jad clue­less when it comes to online ser­vices like Google Trans­late? Any­one can trans­late any­thing these days and don’t think that just because you’re speak­ing Farsi, that the world isn’t trans­lat­ing. We are, and we have been for some time.

Today, Iran’s Rev­o­lu­tion­ary Guard Corps (aka as a ter­ror­ist entity by the US) lev­eled a threat that doesn’t sit well either. The Rev­o­lu­tion­ary Guard claimed it would destroy Israel no mat­ter who attacked Iran. Again, I’m still not feel­ing the love.

This leaves me with just one last thing to say to Ahmadine­jad; every hero gets his vil­lain. Like Batman’s failed vil­lains, the world will not end thanks to you nor will Israel end up in the sea. Your legacy; how­ever, is des­tined to mir­ror Batman’s other arch­en­emy, the Pen­guin: freaky and disturbed.

Oh wait, you already are.

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