Oh, we just don't understand what he said...


(from the article today on CNN)


Thousands of Iranians staged anti-Israel protests across the country Friday and repeated calls by their ultraconservative president demanding the Jewish state's destruction.

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was among the protesters as Iranian officials tried to play down his comments.
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Iran's Moscow embassy, often used by Tehran to issue statements on foreign policy, said that Ahmadinejad did not mean to "speak up in such sharp terms."
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"It's absolutely clear that, in his remarks, Mr. Ahmadinejad, president of the Islamic Republic of Iran, underlined the key position of Iran, based on the necessity to hold free elections on the occupied territories," Reuters quoted the embassy statement as saying.

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Meanwhile, a day after the global condemnation, tens of thousands of Iranians rallied in Tehran and other cities as part of al-Quds -- Jerusalem -- Day protests, The Associated Press reported.

Demonstrators held banners with anti-Israeli and pro-Palestinian slogans. One banner read "Death to Israel, death to America," AP said.

The state-organized rallies were first held in 1979 after Shiite Muslim clerics took power in Iran.







Peace,
   Good points- but more insane things have been done in the name of religious hatred. The whole idea of nuclear deterrence is that the other side is NOT willing to suffer being attacked by nuclear weapons.