Marathon Pundit: Suicidal thoughts from Iran

There are many here among us
You feel that life is a joke
And for you we sing this final song
For you there is no hope
Sayonara oh suicide hari kari
Kamikaze you won’t
See another evening
Goodbye
Bye-bye so long, farewell
See you later....suicide
Suicide
Suicide
Suicide
Cheap Trick's Rick Nielsen, Auf Wiedersehen, 1978.

The loons running Iran that a President Obama would want to negotiate with--and perhaps have normalized relations with--may be falling back on an old tactic: suicide attacks.

From Meir Javedanfar's Pajamas Media column:

Brigadier General Ali Fahdavi, a senior general in Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), issued a warning this week that "if necessary" the IRGC’s Baseej forces were ready to carry out suicide operations in the Gulf, amid rising tensions with the United States.

Citing the spirit of Hossein Fahimi, a brainwashed 13-year-old Iranian child who carried out the first suicide operation during the Iraq vs. Iran war, Fahdavi said Fahimi’s spirit of martyrdom is "prevailing now throughout the Revolutionary Guards."

The Baseej, which is Iran’s equivalent of people's militia forces, falls under the command of the IRGC. Conservative estimates put the number of its members at one million. During the Iraq vs Iran war, tens of thousands of Baseej members, many of whom were young kids from poor families living in the countryside, were brainwashed to walk over mines. Others were told to wrap grenades around themselves and throw themselves under tanks like Fahimi did. His story was told over and over again in Iranian schools and children’s TV programs as a way of encouraging others to follow his path; one which Iranian clerics promised would end in heaven.

Now what would President Obama, or his secretary of state, say, Joe Biden, say to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. "Uh, Mr. President, we'll normalize relations with you if you slow down on those suicide attacks."

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