What is the Goal of a Nuclear Iran?

I doubt that this cartoon will spark worldwide riots like the Danish cartoons of Mohammed did earlier this year.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is not considered to be God's prophet by more than a billion people.

Still, the video might tick off some people. Using Hitler imagery always seems to offend someone somewhere.

GERMANY -- Today, Honestly Concerned launched an animated cartoon as part of a larger campaign surrounding the 2006 Football World Cup, to draw attention to the dangers of a nuclear Iran and the current policies of President Mahmoud Ahmadinedjad’s Mullah-regime.

The cartoon begins with question “GOAL????” and then fades to a cartoon President Ahmadinedjad playing soccer with a nuclear bomb on the same team as Adolf Hitler. They dribble past defenders including Andrea Merkel, Tony Blair, Jaques Chirac and Condoleeza Rice, finally scoring a goal, at which point the soccer ball explodes into a nuclear cloud after reaching the net. The cartoon ends with the text “GOAL!!!” while Hitler and Ahmadinedjad celebrate.

...“This cartoon reminds viewers that while Hitler talked about exterminating the Jews, history has shown us, that what starts with attacking Jews, never ends there. Indeed, while Hitler killed 6 million Jews, the war he started cost 60 million lives. Ahmadinedjad speaks about targeting Jews and Israel, while his real GOAL is to target all infidels with violent conflict. He repeatedly says so himself,” said Stawski. Just last July on Iranian TV, he proclaimed, "Have no doubt... Allah willing, Islam will conquer what? It will conquer all the mountain tops of the world." Stawski added, “Our cartoon uses humor to raise awareness now, because we want strong international diplomatic and economic measures in order to prevent violence. At the end of the day, however, the world can not risk a nuclear Iran.”

Honestly-Concerned is a group of concerned individuals willing to stand up for fair and unbiased media reporting, especially about the Middle-East conflict, and who are fighting hard against anti-semitic rhetoric.

View the cartoon here.

Honestly-Concerned can't be serious. They're kidding themselves if they think that this cartoon is going to raise awareness about the risk that a nuclear Iran poses to the world.

I don't think the cartoon is very well done, and I don't think it's humorous. It's just cheap looking and weird.

Moreover, I have the feeling that Ahmadinejad probably enjoys being compared to Hitler. He might even consider it an honor.

He acts as if "What would Hitler do?" (WWHD) is his personal motto.

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More World Cup and Iranian news...

TEHRAN, June 21 (Reuters) -- Iran's governmental Physical Education Organisation on Wednesday sacked the head of the football federation and apologised to the nation after Iran's World Cup campaign ended once again at the first round.

...The official IRNA news agency carried a statement in response from the Physical Education Organisation, drafted after a meeting of the body's council.

"By unanimous vote, they sacked Mr. Mohammad Dadkan," the statement read.

"The Physical Education Organisation apologises to the Iranian nation for its wounded pride," it added.

The statement said a replacement for Dadkan would be chosen on Saturday.

When American athletes like Bode Miller blew it at the Torino Games, the U.S. Olympic Committee didn't apologize to the American "nation for its wounded pride."

The Iranians apparently take their soccer way too seriously. "Wounded pride" is a bit dramatic.

When it says that the Physical Education Organisation council unanimously voted and "sacked Mr. Mohammad Dadkan," I hope that means he merely lost his job.

I hope it doesn't mean that Dadkan will be subjected to the sort of torture that Iraq's athletes used to suffer when they performed poorly.

Remember when Uday Hussein was president of the Iraqi National Olympic Committee?

Remember that, liberals?

It was back in the good old days, during Saddam Hussein's reign of terror.

From ESPN:

As president of the Iraqi National Olympic Committee, Uday allegedly tortures athletes for losing games. He sticks them in prison for days or months at a time. Has them beaten with iron bars. Caned on the soles of their feet. Chained to walls and left to stay in contorted positions for days. Dragged on pavement until their backs are bloody, then dunked in sewage to ensure the wounds become infected. If Uday stops by a player's jail cell, he might urinate on his bowed, shaven head. Just to humiliate him.

Tyrants and sports are a dangerous mix.