IRAN CALLS FOR ISRAEL TO "BE WIPED OFF THE MAP"

On October 26th, 2005, the Iranian President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, spoke at the "World Without Zionism" conference in Tehran.  At the conference, Ahmadinejad called for the destruction of the democratic state of Israel, and spoke about the confrontation, as he sees it, between Islam and the West. 

For more on his statements and international reactions, see the latest FDD briefing here.

For further background see here, here, here and here.

And for reaction from the blogosphere see here, here and here.