"If a day comes when the world of Islam is duly equipped with the arms Israel has in possession, the strategy of colonialism would face a stalemate because application of an atomic bomb would not leave any thing in Israel but the same thing would just produce damages in the Muslim world", Ayatollah Ali Akbar Hashemi-Rafsanjani told the crowd at the traditional Friday prayers in Tehran. (August 2001)

But I'm sure that was no threat, just a statement of facts about the relative damage a nuclear war would do to both nations.

McGrath, why do you you make such a malevolent interpretation of Ahmadinejad's nice words. He has only said Israel should be wiped off the map not wiped off the planet as you clearly realise. And then you go on to make such an extreme interpretation as shown in your historic comparisons. Ahmadinejad most likely only wanted to say that maps should no longer show Israel, like in postwar Germany (on both sides) the maps did not always display what actually was there and stayed there.

Wolfgang

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