....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."