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By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY | Posted Tuesday, January 27, 2009 4:20 PM PT

Iran: A regime that calls the Nazi genocide of the Jews a "big lie" will have enough enriched uranium for a nuclear bomb later this year. Would you bet your life on "tough diplomacy"?


Why does the fact of six million Jews being massacred by Hitler so threaten Islamists?

Tehran spokesman Gholam Hossein Elham told a conference on Gaza in the Shiite holy city of Qom on Tuesday that "the Holocaust is a concept coming from a big lie in order to settle a rootless regime in the heart of the Islamic world."

This latest rant from the Islamofascist regime comes in the context of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad having some time ago pronounced the Holocaust a "myth," calling for the Jewish state of Israel to be wiped off the map, and Tehran's hosting of a conference of Holocaust deniers.

World sympathy over what happened to the Jews in World War II certainly helped big in achieving the establishment of a homeland for the Jews in Palestine six decades ago, to the outrage of Middle East Muslims.

But embracing the absurdity of denying the Nazis' mass slaughter won't make Israel, or the Israelis, go away.

So why does Tehran persist in doing it?

The likely answer is chilling: because those running Iran are deluded fanatics.

Ahmadinejad himself has provided plenty of proof of that in his statements suggesting the return of the 12th Imam, a Shiite apocalyptic prophecy.

That descendant of Mohammed, also known as the Mahdi, who purportedly vanished in 941 AD, is awaited by some Muslims as the future leader of a holy war against the enemies of Islam.

Ahmadinejad has said, "Our revolution's main mission is to pave the way for the reappearance of the 12th Imam, the Mahdi."

Doing so means that "Iran should become a powerful, developed and model Islamic society."

Indeed. Madman Mahmoud, who takes orders from Iran's ruling mullahs, has stated that Iran "should define our economic, cultural and political policies based on the policy of Imam Mahdi's return. We should avoid copying the West's policies and systems," he has insisted.

And Ahmadinejad has expressed these sentiments not on isolated occasions but in numerous speeches during his presidency, including remarks made before the United Nations General Assembly in New York.

These are the madmen that London's International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) this week warned will soon have produced enough fissionable material to construct an atomic bomb — and they already have acquired the plans for one, thanks to the Pakistan-based A.Q. Khan nuclear network.

They also have in the works an enhanced version of the Shahab 3 missile, with which Iran will be able to strike Israel with a destructive nuclear weapon. As their missile technology gets better, most of Europe will soon be in range.

The Iranians have long been in a state of war with their Jewish neighbors through their terrorist proxies, Hamas and Hezbollah.

They have been in a de facto state of war with the United States too, helping insurgents kill our troops in Iraq and elsewhere and providing aid, training and comfort to terrorists around the world.

And yet we continue to hear the tired refrain from the West's diplomatic corps that "incentives" and economic sanctions can stop these crazed apocalyptic anti-Semites.

Today, as a new U.S. president considers talking to Iran directly, it's time for a return to the kind of clarity Ronald Reagan applied to the Cold War. As he described it: "We win. They lose."



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