Iran's President Calls for Destruction of Israel

From Arutz Sheva - Israel National News: 21:48 Oct 26, '05 / 23 Tishrei 5766, By Nissan Ratzlav-Katz ...

Iran's president told attendees of a conference in Teheran on Wednesday that 'Israel must be wiped off the map.' ...

'The creation of the occupying regime in Jerusalem is a strong action by the ruling arrogant world order against the world of Islam. There continues a historic war between the [powers of] World Arrogance and the Islamic world, the roots of which go back hundreds of years,' Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad declared. 'The Islamic nation will not allow its historic enemy to exist in its heartland.'

Ahmadinejad was addressing a Teheran conference entitled 'A World Without Zionism'.

"I have no doubt that the new wave [of attacks] which has started in dear Palestine and which we witness today all over the Islamic world will soon wipe this scourge of shame from the Islamic world. This is do-able," Ahmadinejad encouraged the audience, which included thousands of Islamic students, as well as representatives of Arab terrorist organizations and their supporters. He noted his belief that the turn towards Islamism in the Palestinian Authority has brought the Arabs success against Israel.

Western Civilization, the Iranian leader said, "turned the Zionist regime occupying Jerusalem into a staging-ground to dominate the Islamic world. ...They have created a base, from where they can expand their rule over the entire Islamic world; it has no other purpose other than this."The goal of a world without the United States or Zionism, Ahmadinejad said, is "attainable and could definitely be realized. ...Our dear Imam [Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini] ordered that the occupying regime in Jerusalem be wiped off the face of the earth. This was a very wise statement." Compromise over the elimination of Israel, the Iranian president said, is tantamount to the defeat of the Islamic world, as "the central and command base of the enemy... is the occupying regime in Jerusalem." ...