Right, he never said that Israel should be wiped off the map. He just said that an anonymous state whose capital is Jerusalem should vanish. EDIT: that was a r

Right, he never said that Israel should be wiped off the map. He just said that an anonymous state whose capital is Jerusalem should vanish. EDIT: that was a reply to the apologetic section of the article the OP linked to. Reading further you get a link to Iran's president website [1] which contains plainer words by Ahmadinejad . [1] http://www.president.ir/en/?ArtID=10114 http://www.president.ir/en/?ArtID=10114