Original sentence: " Bronner stated: "So did Iran's president call for Israel to be wiped off the map.According to Cole, "Ahmadinejad did not say he was going to wipe Israel off the map because no such idiom exists in Persian" and "He did say he hoped its regime, i.In a June 11, 2006 analysis of the translation controversy, New York Times deputy foreign editor Ethan Bronner stated that Ahmadinejad had in fact said that Israel was to be wiped off the map.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 cause a place to stop existing.The same idiom in his speech on December 13, 2006 was translated as "wipe out"
Edited sentence: " Bronner stated: "So did Iran's president call for Israel to be 'wiped off the map'.According to Cole, "Ahmadinejad did not say he was going to 'wipe Israel off the map' because no such idiom exists in Persian" and "He did say he hoped its regime, i.In a June 11, 2006 analysis of the translation controversy, New York Times deputy foreign editor Ethan Bronner stated that Ahmadinejad had said that Israel was to be wiped off the map.Iran has repeatedly rejected the allegations that Ahmadinejad has stated 'Israel must be wiped off the map'.Many western 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 cause a place to "obliterate totally", and "destroy completely", such as by powerful bombs, or other catasrophes.The same idiom in his speech on December 13, 2006 was translated as "wipe out" by Reuters: