**Iran’s hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad openly called Wednesday for Israel to be “wiped off the map” and lashed out at Muslim nations which recognize the Jewish state, setting off a storm of protests. Ahmadinejad’s remarks triggered widespread outrage and prompted France to summon Iran’s ambassador to Paris.
“The establishment of the Zionist regime was a move by the world oppressor against the Islamic world,” the president told a conference in Tehran entitled “The World without Zionism.”
Ahmadinejad said: “There is no doubt that the new wave (of attacks) in Palestine will soon wipe off this disgraceful blot (Israel) from the face of the Islamic world. … As the Imam said, Israel must be wiped off the map,” said Ahmadinejad, referring to a slogan which Iran’s revolutionary leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini used before his death in 1989.**
Ahmadinejad’s uncompromising tone represents a dramatic change from that of former president Mohammad Khatami, a mild-mannered cleric whose favored topic was “dialogue among civilizations” and who led an effort to improve Iran’s relations with the West.
Addressing some 4,000 students, Ahmadinejad also took a slap at some of Iran’s Arab neighbors in the Gulf as they seek to break new ground in their relations with Israel.
“Anybody who recognizes Israel will burn in the fire of the Islamic nation’s fury; any (Islamic leader) who recognizes the Zionist regime is acknowledging the surrender and defeat of the Islamic world,” he said.
“Ahmadinejad has clearly declared the doctrine of his government. He is returning Iran to the revolutionary goals it was pursuing in the 1980s,” said
Mohammad Sadeq Husseini, an expert on Middle Eastern affairs.
“By these comments, Ahmadinejad is committing himself to those goals. He is also sending the message that his government won’t back down.”
In Jerusalem, Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom said: “We believe that Iran is trying to buy time … so it can develop a nuclear bomb.”
“Iran is a clear and present danger,” he said at a joint news conference in Jerusalem with visiting Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.
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Unlike coward musharaff this Iranian leader has the guts to speak the truth, that the cancer squatter state of israel will indeed be wiped of the face of the world map, no matter how much terrorist nations like USa and Britain try to blackmail the muslim world the reality is the muslim ummah will never accept this current situation in al quds! and as predicted the coward israelis pants are turning brown as we speak.
