By Mr. Curmudgeon

President Obama is worried about Iran. Not its development of nuclear weapons, but that the Islamic republic’s Revolutionary Guard may overthrow the mullahocracy. In a bizarre take on reality, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said in remarks before students in Qatar, “We see that the government of Iran – the Supreme Leader, the president, the parliament – is being supplanted and that Iran is moving toward a military dictatorship.” This must be startling news to Iran’s dictator mullahs. After all, the Ayatollah Khomeini established the Revolutionary Guard in 1979, which answers directly to Iran’s top mullahs. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad rose to the presidency from relative obscurity due to electoral fraud perpetrated by the Revolutionary Guard – on orders from Iran’s clerics. And Ahmadinejad was once a member of the guard.

Iran once seized our embassy and held our diplomats hostage; it trains and supplies terrorist organizations like Hamas and Hezbollah; it smuggles missiles and small arms into the Palestinian Authority to wage a genocidal war against Israel and has actively participated these past eight years in killing Americans fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Shortly after taking office, Obama released a video address directed at Iran’s ruling mullahs, “My Administration is now committed to diplomacy,” the president pleaded. “This process will not be advanced by threats. We seek, instead, engagement that is honest and grounded in mutual respect.”

The president and his Secretary of State fret over an imaginary coup d’état aimed at Iran’s Supreme Leader and his front man Ahmadinejad – the very characters commanding the 125,000-man terrorist army that will soon possess nuclear weapons. A morally, intellectually and financially bankrupt world’s last hope won’t be Obama or Hillary — but tiny Israel.