Wipe Israel from the map?

by Rudo de Ruijter,
Independent researcher,
18 September 2008

"Khomeini said this regime occupying Jerusalem must vanish from (the) page of time." This sentence, pronounced by newly elected President Ahmadinejad on October 25th, 2005,  has been translated into "Israel must be wiped off the map". Since then this translation has been cited thousands of times by journalists and politicians. In short, President Ahmadinejad spoke about the expectation, that like the Soviet regime and the regime of Saddam Hussein, the Zionist regime in Jerusalem would also end. And who launched this false translation? No, not Iran's ennemies. According to Iranians who have investigated the matter, it was Iran's own Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) that first used this phrasing in the English version of some of their news releases. [1] And as Western journalists do not speak farsi, they simply copied the little sentence from IRNA. Nobody verified. IRNA really needs a better translator :-)

However, for the Western war propaganda is does not matter where the little sentence came from. If you repeat it often enough, people will believe it anyway. But here too, facts speak a different language: Iran didnt start a war since more than 1,000 years.

Source:

[1] Wiping Israel from the map...   http://www.campaigniran.org/casmii/index.php?q=node/1215