Iran Keeps Tempting Fate

The Iranians have decided that the best defense is a really lousy offense, and they just can’t seem to shut up:

Were Israel to attack Iran's nuclear facilities, Iran would respond so strongly that it would put the Jewish state into "an eternal coma" like Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's, the Iranian defense minister said Wednesday.

"Zionists should know that if they do anything evil against Iran, the response of Iran's armed forces will be so firm that it will send them into eternal coma, like Sharon," Gen. Mostafa Mohammad Najjar said.

Najjar said the United States and Israel have been trying to frighten Iran, but neither country would dare attack to Iran.

If there’s one thing Israelis don’t lack, it’s courage, and the Iranians are deluding themselves if they think Israel won’t act in their own self interest and take the risk of an attack to put Iran’s nuke facilities out of business.