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Israel should be "wiped off the map": Iran president
Agence France-Presse | October 26, 2005

Posted on 10/26/2005 2:44:55 AM PDT by HAL9000

Iran's hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Wednesday openly 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 Iran's revolutionary leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.

His comments were the first time in years that such a high-ranking Iranian official has called for Israel's eradication, even though such slogans are still regularly used at regime rallies.



TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Israel; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: ezekiel38; iran; israel; jihad; khomeini; tehran; terrorism; terrorists
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To: ASA Vet

Nice map, but Saudi Arabia needs to be blue too.


41 posted on 10/26/2005 9:45:57 AM PDT by EternalHope (Boycott everything French forever. Including their vassal nations.)
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To: goldstategop

I've been opposed to American invasions in the middle east, but this flaming Iranian a-h-le seems to want it to happen. He has a death wish, I guess. If he were sane, he'd be talking about commercial trade with Israel and the US, to make his country more prosperous - - instead he seems to crave destruction for himself and desolation for his people. What a flying f--ker./


43 posted on 10/26/2005 9:52:43 AM PDT by churchillbuff
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To: EternalHope
Just can't please some people. Here's the Sept 12, 2001 version.


44 posted on 10/26/2005 9:55:52 AM PDT by ASA Vet (Those who know don't talk, those who talk don't know.)
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To: HAL9000
"As the Imam said, Israel must be wiped off the map,", so that it can be written in bigger letters across the whole middle east. Thats what he meant to say.
45 posted on 10/26/2005 10:00:09 AM PDT by evolved_rage
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To: ASA Vet

Works for me!


46 posted on 10/26/2005 10:21:57 AM PDT by EternalHope (Boycott everything French forever. Including their vassal nations.)
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To: Jim Noble
"Iran will erase Israel with nuclear weapons as soon as they have them. They have said this over and over, and there is no reason to doubt it."

Israel already has nukes along with delivery capability and the resolve to do a first strike. Iran will not posses nuclear weapons.
47 posted on 10/26/2005 10:25:11 AM PDT by Rebelbase (""As far as I can tell, she (Miers) is every bit as conservative as George Bush." --NCsteve (FR))
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To: goldstategop

It will do more tha stiffen Israel's resolve. I'd put good money on a pre-emptive airstrike by Israel of Iran's nuclear facilities. Israel has been there, done that. The members of the Iranian leadership either have short memories or no brains to go with their big mouths....


48 posted on 10/26/2005 11:44:29 AM PDT by tracer
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To: tomahawk

GW wisely will leave the solution to the Iranian nuclear problem to the Israelis. High time for Israel to earn its 3 billion-plus annual defense subsidy from us...


49 posted on 10/26/2005 11:46:42 AM PDT by tracer
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To: HAL9000

Give it your best shot, dweeb.

And prepare to meet your Maker. He's not going to be happy, btw. And whoooooooo boy are you in for a surprise!


50 posted on 10/26/2005 12:10:14 PM PDT by Brad’s Gramma (FR1....Varoooooom, Varooooooom!!!)
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To: HAL9000

Could you please provide a working link to the source?


51 posted on 10/26/2005 12:15:27 PM PDT by TopQuark
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To: SkyPilot

Islam is more like a death cult.


52 posted on 10/26/2005 1:14:55 PM PDT by Sam Gamgee
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To: halfright

I'm trying to understand what Iran gains from these warnings? Perhaps testing our resolve?


53 posted on 10/26/2005 1:18:40 PM PDT by Sam Gamgee
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To: hinckley buzzard

It seems to me that the Persians were more or less sympathetic (or at least Darius was)with the Jewish people. Unfortunately that great civilization was replaced by a cult of uncivilization.


54 posted on 10/26/2005 1:20:38 PM PDT by Sam Gamgee
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To: HAL9000
Israel should be "wiped off the map": Iran president

"Iran should be Nuked off the planet" : ATOMIC_PUNK

55 posted on 10/26/2005 1:23:56 PM PDT by ATOMIC_PUNK (secus acutulus exspiro ab Acheron bipes actio absol ab Acheron supplico)
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To: Sam Gamgee

There is less anti-semitism among the people of Iran than anywhere else in the middle east proper. This dating back to the days of the persian empire before the scourge of mohammed.

It is interesting to read the above styled thread as prelude to the ghastly bombing in Hareda. Is it connected? Ahmedinejad also promised a major Palestinian strike. Who knows? The stars?


56 posted on 10/26/2005 1:29:56 PM PDT by Great Caesars Ghost (The Fault, dear Brutus, lies not in the Stars, but in Our Selves.)
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57 posted on 10/26/2005 1:53:55 PM PDT by markedmannerf (I BELIEVE IN CONGRESSMAN WELDON!)
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To: HAL9000

Wow...Iran saying that Israel should be wiped off the map....huh....and in other news grass is green, the sky is blue, and yes Boy George is indeed gay.


58 posted on 10/26/2005 2:04:42 PM PDT by Blue Scourge (USAF....when it has to be blown up now, accept no substitute)
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To: markedmannerf

bump for later


59 posted on 10/26/2005 2:50:43 PM PDT by Brad’s Gramma (FR1....Varoooooom, Varooooooom!!!)
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To: Brad's Gramma

In Denmark i am sad to report that it is only a big news in one newspaper and that it is a slightly conservative oriented paper. When Bush called the regime evil people were screaming and kicking here, but when Irans own president wants to wipe Israel of the map, then we pass it in silence.


60 posted on 10/26/2005 3:15:14 PM PDT by davker (A reply from a dane)
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