Tehran, Oct 26 – Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Wednesday called for Israel to be “wiped off the map”.

“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’.

“The skirmishes in the occupied land are part of a war of destiny. The outcome of hundreds of years of war will be defined in Palestinian land,” he said.

“As the Imam said, Israel must be wiped off the map,” said Ahmadinejad, referring to the late founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Imam Khomeini.

Addressing some 4,000 students gathered in an interior ministry conference hall, Ahmadinejad also called for Palestinian unity, resistance and a point where the annihilation of the Zionist regime will come.

Do you have a link to that approved translation? The “approved” translator certainly made a grave error in that case.

Thanks,

He might not have meant that, but his approved translation provided to western and Arabic press did say EXACTLY that.

One person suggested that M8 won around 800,000 votes while M14 around 700,000.
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If that is true M8 got 53 percent of the votes but only 44 percent of the parliament’s seats. Not exactly a good example of a democratic system for the rest of Middle East.

Has Hezbollah returned the bodies of the soldiers

Israel almost routinely kidnaps Lebanese & others to hold them for ransom in such cases in order to try to gain the return of their soldiers. Both sides do this, not just Hezbollah. Israel also still holds many Hamas legislators which it kidnapped several yrs ago & is holding w. no valid charges being filed.

Will a “moderate” Iranian president have any power to negotiate their nuclear ambitions

Yes, if he’s trusted by the Ayatollah.

Have Israel’s leaders spontaneously and repeatedly threatened to wipe Iran off the map?

First, Iran never threatened to do that. You’ve been reading too much MEMRI & other right wing pro Israel propaganda. Second, yes, Israeli politicians have threatened to attack Iran AND overthrow its government. And they’ve “repeatedly” threatened this.

Imagine, a nation and people so cruel…

Alas, I do imagine such a nation so cruel–or at least their leaders and generals are.

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&article_id=102872&categ_id=17