Golden Dome Blown Up By The Jews and Americans

The truly wise Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has set the record straight. The bombing of the Askariya mosque dome in Samarra is the work of Jews and Americans.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad blamed the United States and Israel on Thursday for the destruction of a Shiite shrine's golden dome in Iraq, saying it was the work of "defeated Zionists and occupiers."

Speaking to a crowd of thousands on a tour of southwestern Iran, the president referred to the destruction of the Askariya mosque dome in Samarra on Wednesday, which the Iraqi government has blamed on insurgents.

"They invade the shrine and bomb there because they oppose God and justice," Ahmadinejad said, alluding to the U.S.-led multinational forces in Iraq.

"These passive activities are the acts of a group of defeated Zionists and occupiers who intended to hit our emotions," he said in a speech that was broadcast on state television. Addressing the United States, he added: "You have to know that such an act will not save you from the anger of Muslim nations."

The only people that have anything to gain in this sort of event are those that want civil war, continued unrest, and the ouster of sunnis from Iraq. Conspicuously present on this list is Iran who would just love to swallow up Iraq to form a goliath Shiite state.

Would the Iranian mullahs perpetrate this sort of thing to gain power in the region? Though possible it is doubtful. What is not doubtful is that Iran is more capable of doing this and has a lot more to gain by doing so than either America or Israel.

Any Muslim with half a brain should know as much, perhaps explaining why Radical Iraqi Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr hasn't figured it out yet.

Hat tip to Rantings of a Sandmonkey.