Iran will NOT launch a first strike on Israel.
The gibberish nutjob is talking is to impress upon the Muslim world. They are cynics... not suicidals. The mullah leaders are willing to use peons as cannon-fodder, but they have NO interest in getting blown up themselves. You never see the mullahs sacraficing themselves.
The islamic regime is interested in:
a) cementing it’s power (as we have seen it’s pretty shaky)
b) blackmailing the world
c) deterring attacks
Nuclear weapons (or just the capability to produce them) will guarantee these three things.
With nukes they can feel safe from attacks, and are able to hold the region hostage, control the oil flow and prices and demand concessions from the West.
The warfare against Israel will continue through terrorist proxies like Hezbullah and Hamas.
The islamic regime want’s to be a regional great power... not blown up.
Unfortunately, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has repeatedly told that that there must be “cataclysmic events” to prepare the way for Shiite Muslims’ awaited messiah (The reappearance of the 12th Imam).
Also, several top-level iranians have openly told that Israel should be nuked. This includes one of the former “reformist” Iranian presidents in his speech in 2001.
Your words would be dead on if we were talking about the Soviets, who had cynicism as the fundamental of their Philosophy. But your words capture the Islamists, who have fanaticism as their fundamental, only up to the point of that fanaticism. I think that there are far more absolutely depraved and Hate demented psychos in Islam than anywhere else on earth (and THAT'S saying something) The HATE of the Jew that they haver invited into their souls will drive them to places the Soviets weren't stupid enough to go. Think Hitler.
They have their eyes on Bahrain first as one of many steps, or dominoes, toward building a unified Shia Caliphate in the Middle East. I for one do not think Riyadh will let them go through with it. We may also see some very very curious military alliances against Teheran that we would have never thought possible in the past in that part of the world.
I am not so sure. Islamic Iran is as crazy and delusional as leftist communist democrats who would and do cut off their own nose to spite their own face. Delusional people like democrats and Islamic terrorists are a danger to peace and prosperity and freedom. The democrat Obamanation is fast destroying us and trying to undermine Israel.