Iran: Just Kidding

After all the statements about eliminating Israel from it's highest officials, apparently the threats from one of it's generals caused Iran to consider what the rest of the world thought about their doomsday policies - well, at least their military is getting worried, anyway:

UNITED NATIONS - The Iranian military on Wednesday rejected a statement from a top Revolutionary Guards commander that Israel would be Iran's first target in response to any U.S. attack, an Iranian news agency reported.

Brig. Gen. Alireza Afshar, deputy to the chief of Iran's military staff, said the statement by Mohammad Ebrahim Dehghani "is his personal view and has no validity as far as the Iranian military officials are concerned," according to the Entekhab News Agency.

A translation of Afshar's remarks was provided to The Associated Press.

Dehghani was quoted by the Iranian Student News Agency on Tuesday as saying: "We have announced that wherever (in Iran) America does make any mischief, the first place we target will be Israel."

Of course, maybe they're backing off because they don't yet have the tools they want to fulfill Mahmoud's sick dream...