Original sentence: ''Direct quotations of the 2006 International Qods Conference address are available at wikiquote.Contrived Fury.In his translation of a speech to the "World Without Zionism" conference held for students in October 2005, Nazila Fathi of The New York Times' Tehran bureau reported Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as saying, in part:.Many news sources have presented one of Ahmadinejad's phrases in Persian as a statement that "Israel must be wiped off the map", an English idiom which means to "obliterate totally", and "destroy completely", such as by powerful bombs, or other catasrophes.President's speeches
Edited sentence: ", which may have been the origin for this translation  controversy.''Direct quotations of the 2006 International Qods Conference address are available at Wikiquote.In his translation of a speech to the World Without Zionism conference held for students in October 2005, Nazila Fathi of The New York Times' Tehran bureau reported Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as saying, in part:.Many news sources have misrepresented one of Ahmadinejad's phrases in Persian as a statement that "Israel must be wiped off the map", an English idiom which means to "obliterate totally", and "destroy completely", such as by powerful bombs, or other catastrophes.Republic of Iran The President's speeches.Wiped of the Map - The Rumor of the Century