"Terry Spragg" wrote in message
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NOYB wrote:

...until there's a mushroom cloud over Tehran.

It's not smart for a head of state that is pursuing nuclear weapons to
talk publicly about wiping Israel from the map. If I were Israel, those
words could make a strong enough case for pre-emptive nuclear attack
against Iran.





washingtonpost.com
World Expresses Dismay Over Iran Remarks

By JILL LAWLESS
The Associated Press
Thursday, October 27, 2005; 10:38 AM



LONDON -- Governments around the world expressed shock and scorn Thursday
at the Iranian president's call for Israel to be "wiped off the map," and
several summoned Tehran's envoys in their capitals for a reprimand.

However, Israeli calls for Iran to be expelled from the United Nations
over the remarks by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad were not immediately
taken up by other nations.

In a speech Wednesday, Ahmadinejad denounced Israel and said a new wave
of Palestinian attacks "will wipe this stigma from the face of the
Islamic world." Citing the words of the founder of Iran's Islamic
revolution, the late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Ahmadinejad said:
"Israel must be wiped off the map."


Are you suggesting that what was said was a quote, and is being spun out
of context? I haven't read the actual transcript, so I am vulnerable to
the yellow press.


How do you take the statement "Israel must be wiped off the map" out of
context?