Word: ahmadinejad
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...Israel must be wiped off the map." MAHMOUD AHMADINEJAD, President of Iran, at a student rally in Tehran; two months later, amid international outrage, the Holocaust denier called for moving the Zionist state to North America or Europe...
...Some European countries insist on saying that Hitler killed millions of innocent Jews in furnaces, to the extent that if anyone proves something contrary they condemn that person and throw them in jail." MAHMOUD AHMADINEJAD, President of Iran and Holocaust denier who last week suggested moving the Zionist state to Europe...
...Unpresidential Outburst The verbal attack by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the President of Iran, in which he declared, "Israel must be wiped off the map" [Nov. 7], was unworthy of a man in his position of leadership and invited much international criticism. Does Ahmadinejad really believe a country can just be obliterated from the face of the earth? The mighty American war machine cannot control the ragtag Taliban of Afghanistan or wipe them out, let alone destroy an entire country! What do deserve to be wiped out are thoughts like Ahmadinejad's. Isphanyar Bhandara Rawalpindi, Pakistan...
...eloquently expressing my frustration with elected officials who don't know how to stop politicking and start governing. Is it naive to think they can learn? That is what the American people want - except for the politicians. Cyndy Calkins Aurora, Colorado, U.S. Unpresidential Outburst The verbal attack by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the President of Iran, in which he declared, " Israel must be wiped off the map" [Nov. 7], was unworthy of a man in his position of leadership and invited much international criticism. Does Ahmadinejad really believe a country can just be obliterated from the face of the earth? The mighty...
Iranian diplomats downplayed the episode. Nonetheless, Iranian political scientist Hadi Semati told TIME Ahmadinejad's reversal of the conciliatory tone of former reformist President Mohammed Khatami risks escalating the ongoing showdown with the West over Iran's nuclear-enrichment ambitions. With his administration beset by an internal power struggle between military hard-liners and religious conservatives, Ahmadinejad may have been trying to bolster his standing with radicals. "The restraints are all off," says a Western diplomat in Tehran. "[The President] is remote-controlled by the very people who are responsible for all the bad stuff." Says a Tehran reformist...