Erase Israel Call Repeated By Tehran
Gulf Daily News
Monday 2nd June 2008
TEHRAN: Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki yesterday called on the world’s Muslims to work to “erase” Israel, in the latest verbal attack by Tehran against the Jewish state.
“As the Imam Khomeini said, if each Muslim even throws a bucket of water on Israel, Israel will be erased,” said Mottaki in Tehran, recalling a saying by Iran’s late revolutionary leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad sparked international outrage when called for Israel to be “wiped from the map”.
While Ahmadinejad and top military commanders regularly predict the demise of Israel, such virulent attacks from the foreign ministry are relatively unusual.
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