RTFA: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/11/weekinreview/11b…
It starts as a dispute over translating Persian but quickly turns on whether the United States (with help from Israel) is doing to Iran what some believe it did to Iraq — building a case for military action predicated on a faulty premise.
“Ahmadinejad did not say he was going to wipe Israel off the map because no such idiom exists in Persian,” remarked Juan Cole, a Middle East specialist at the University of Michigan and critic of American policy who has argued that the Iranian president was misquoted. “He did say he hoped its regime, i.e., a Jewish-Zionist state occupying Jerusalem, would collapse.” Since Iran has not “attacked another country aggressively for over a century,” he said in an e-mail exchange, “I smell the whiff of war propaganda.”
Old article - made recently popular by digg leftists. For some reason the digg population seems to hate Israel and defend Iran on a daily basis. While I accept the above article is most likely true and Ahmadinejad was probably misquoted, he’s still a scumbag. And, let me make the obvious statement, Iran is worse than Israel. I apologize for introducing my bias, but I am presenting evidence to support the opposing opinion.
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