"Please bomb us! Please!"

Iran's democratically elected First Terrorist gave a speech calling for Israel to be wiped off the map.

Is that a good survival strategy? "There is that other country in the region that we want to wipe off the map, and, BTW, we are developing a nuclear program, but of course for peaceful purposes only, hehe"? Especially when that other country already has, ahem, developed a nuclear program for peaceful purposes only?

I understand of course that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad would like to meet Allah as soon as possible, and I wish him godspeed on that path, but somehow I doubt that most of his electorate share that desire.