It looks like our old friend is at it again:

Israel and the United States will soon be destroyed, Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Tuesday during a meeting with Syria’s foreign minister, the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) website said in a report.

“Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad... assured that the United States and the Zionist regime of Israel will soon come to the end of their lives,” the Iranian president was quoted as saying.

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The Iranian president also directly tied events in Lebanon to a wider plan aimed at Israel’s destruction. He called on “regional countries” to “support the Islamic resistance of the Lebanese people and strive to enhance solidarity and unity among the different Palestinian groups in a bid to pave the ground for the undermining of the Zionist regime whose demise is, of course, imminent.”

Ahmadinejad has threatened the State of Israel with annihilation several times in recent months, and has recently added the US and Britain to the list of countries he says will be destroyed.

Why can’t we just talk to Ahmadinejad? I’m sure if we sent pleasant-looking ambassadors to sit down with him, smile politely, and ask him in kind, measured tones to give up his nuclear plans and his apparent desire to see our country destroyed, maybe the nice man would find it in his heart to spare our deaths. Maybe at the very least he could be convinced to delay our deaths by a few weeks.

All we are saying, Mahmoud, is give peace a chance.

He has to listen to reason.

Doesn’t he?