::Hey Acuman, I have read your previous claims and you don't have any clue what you are talking about, yet you insist on pressing your personal opinions.  Ahmadinejad consistently refers to "the Zionists" and NOT "Israel".  Also, phrases like "Israel should be WIPED OFF THE MAP" are inventions of Zionist-controlled Western media.  Ahmadinejad never said that phrase, and what he was referring to, which was actually a statement of Ayatollah Khomeini roughly translates to "[the usurping regime of Israel] should be eliminated from the page of the world"  one could argue that a good translation for that phrase in English would be "wiped off the map", but that is not what Khomeni had originally said.  Nonetheless, Ahmadinejad was referring to what Khomeini had said and the Western media (in my opinion, Zionist-controlled Western media) suddenly blew it way out of proportion, for obvious reasons.  The history of this article clearly shows that it has been obssessively manipulated by a disproportionate number of Zionists (their edit history shows they are Zionists).  Anonymous Iranian who used to oppose the Islamic regime in Iran but is now 100% supportive of them.