One thing is for sure the end game is that the "mad mullahs" will not survive - either an attack or a US sponsored uprising will do for them.

Stories of fundamentalism emerging from Israel sound nearly as bad as the mad mullahs of Iran.

The mad mullahs of Tehran have some kind of lunatic vision that Iran should be a super power of the middle east.

"Clashing civilizations or mad mullahs: The United States between informal and formal empire" in Strobe Talbott (ed.)

If the Guardian is publishing this, what hope for some of the other mad mullahs running the other publications?

The "moderates" whose emergence many American and European observers had confidently predicted did not arise to oust the "mad mullahs."

It would mean fewer unemployed people on the street with nothing to do but listen to the exhortations of mad mullahs.

Mr Hussein was embraced by the West in the 1980s because he was trying to contain the mad mullahs across the border; all else was ignored.

Most likely Iran's mad mullahs and their president won't take much heed, so it will be down to the international community to impose real sanctions on Iran.

Many liberals, conservatives, "socialists" in the West are talking about the noble Iranian people versus mad mullahs who are just not able to understand the rules of the game.