Iranian Irony?

For a bunch of radicals, the leaders of Iran do seem to have a humorous appreciation of irony, if only unintentional. Let's take a look at two examples.

First up, a number of attacks and explosions have occurred within the past week inside Iran. From the UK's The Independent newspaper: "A car loaded with explosives blew up near a bus carrying members of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards in southeastern Iran, killing 18 of them, the state-run news agency reported today."

Iranian officials are angered over this armed insurgency causing chaos in their country and are placing responsibility for it with... wait for it... the United States. Hard to verify and prove such an accusation, but hey since when does that matter? Zing!?

(Sidenote: No one is suggesting that no foreign weapons have made their way into Iraq, but rather that the motives and case the administration has made-- which they won't even fully stand by beyond rhetoric-- makes little sense and singling out Iran as opposed to the other regional hands in this cookie jar ignores a much more complex picture, likely on purpose.)

Secondly, there is this new news about Iran and its nuclear program: "Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Tuesday said his country was ready to stop its enrichment program and return to talks provided Western nations also stopped their own. Ahmadinejad told a crowd of thousands in northern Iran one day ahead of a U.N. Security Council deadline that it was no problem for his country to stop, but that 'fair talks' demanded a similar gesture from the West."

Translation: 'We'll give up our nuclear program if you give up yours'. Double zing?!?

It might almost be humorous if our leaders weren't, you know, playing war games.

[UPDATE: Gen. Wesley Clark and others launch StopIranWar.com to inform/engage citizens about this issue.

UPDATE #2 (2/22): "A senior Iranian government official" makes diplomatic nod to the U.S.]