"He didn't mean wiping the Jewish people off the map. We don't have a problem with them," said Muhammad Ali Chitsaz, 36, a dentist. "We can have peaceful coexistence with them. What we are against is their treatment of the Palestinians. They should allow the Palestinians to return to their homeland and then decide the government on the basis of who is the majority." From this report about a big demo in Tehran yesterday.

It was a stupid and provocative way of putting it by the Iran president all right. But there are no grounds for interpreting it as some kind of call for genocide, and using it as a pretext for war.