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Obama to Iran: ‘Ixnay on the Issilemay Alktay’

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Finally! The Obama Administration has found a way out of its negotiation screw-up that allowed Iran to legally test long-range ballistic missiles. According to the Iranian military, the U.S. solved the problem by in effect telling the rogue nation, “Ixnay on the issilemay alktay.”.

The only purpose for long-range ballistic missiles is to deliver a nuclear payload (ballistic missiles are lousy at delivering pizza; the cheese slides to one side of the pie) and a nuclear Iran with ballistic missiles not only threaten the “Little Satan” (Israel) but also the “Big Satan” (the United States).

 According to the Iranians, our government’s only solution to its missile tests was to ask Iran to stop announcing their tests. Truth be told, the Administration has few options because it was snookered in the P5+1 negotiations.

According to a Middle East Media Research Institute translation of a news story posted at the Iranian news site Tasnimnews.com, Amir Ali Hajizadeh, commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps’ Aerospace and Missile Force, told a conference of religious students in the Iranian city of Qom: “At this time, the Americans are telling [us]: ‘Don’t talk about missile affairs, and if you conduct a test or maneuver, don’t mention it.’ If we agree to this, they will advance another step, and say: ‘Don’t conduct [a missile test] at this time, and also don’t do it in the Persian Gulf region.’ After that, they will tell us: ‘Why do you need your missiles to have a range of 2,000 km [anyway]?

“After that, they will tell [us]: ‘Next, we will check whether your missiles can really carry nuclear weapons. Bring us the details [of the missiles].’ After that, they will say: ‘We need to set up cameras.’ And, finally, they will say: ‘Either saw [the missiles up into pieces] or, like [Libyan dictator Mu’ammar] Gadhafi, load them onto a ship and hand [them] over to us.’

“They are clearly deluding themselves. Nothing like this will ever happen.”

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