Israeli Ad Jokes About Strikes on Iran's Nuclear Program An annotated and subtitled copy of an Israeli ad that imagines the destruction of an Iranian nuclear facility. An Israeli cable television company has removed an ad from its YouTube channel making light of a possible attack on Iran's nuclear facilities by Israel. The ad, for the cable provider Hot, imagines characters from an Israeli sitcom bungling a covert operation and destroying the Iranian nuclear facility near the city of Isfahan by pressing the wrong button on a Mossad agent's Samsung Galaxy tablet computer. After the facility goes up in smoke, the culpable Israeli character dismisses it with a shrug as just "another mysterious explosion in Iran," a clear reference to a string of deadly attacks on Iranian scientists and installations that have been attributed to Israel. Unfortunately for Samsung, the South Korean electronics firm, it was identified as the originator of the ad in Iran. One outraged Iranian official demanded an apology and even suggested that a ban on Samsung products might be in order. The company quickly issued a statement stressing that the ad had been produced in Israel "without Samsung's knowledge or participation." As The Korea Herald reports, the confusion over the ad comes at a time of strained relations between Iran and South Korea. Last month, after South Korea decided to take part in international sanctions against Iran over its nuclear program, the Iranian government "demanded Korean firms, including Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics, tear down their outdoor advertising billboards in Tehran." While the official version of the Israeli ad has disappeared, a number of copies of it remain on YouTube. One, which includes English subtitles and annotation, explains that the ad ends with a Hebrew pun that Iran's theocratic leadership is unlikely to find funny. At the very end of the clip, one of the Israeli characters hiding out in an Isfahan cafe swats a bug that landed on him and exclaims, "Ick, Khomeini!" As Ben Hartman explained in The Jerusalem Post: "Khomeini" is Israeli slang for Maladera insanabilis, a beetle drawn to the light of Tel Aviv stairwells during the summer. The pesky winged beetle acquired the name because the species is believed to have been accidentally imported to Israel in the late 1970s by a traveler returning from Iran. Mr. Hartman also noted that this is not the first time an Israeli company has joked about assassinations thought to have been carried out by Israel's intelligence agents. As The Lede reported in 2010, an Israeli supermarket chain illustrated the slogan "We offer killer prices," with fake surveillance camera images of actors dressed to look like the suspects accused of assassinating a Hamas official in Dubai that year. Writing on the Israeli Web magazine +972 on Sunday, Ami Kaufman drew attention to another current ad campaign, for Subaru, that makes light of conflict between Israelis and their neighbors. The Subaru print and Internet ad plays on the graffiti scrawled by Israeli settlers who take credit for attacks on Palestinian mosques by writing the Hebrew words "Price Tag" on the walls. As Mr. Kaufman explained, the ad, which appeared in Israel's leading newspaper on Sunday, refers to the price tag of a car with the words written in graffiti, "on a brick wall that looks pretty much like any brick wall you would find belonging to your typical West Bank mosque."