Iran - Policy on Israel

Iran's interior minister says Iran's policy on Israel and the Holocaust has been "misunderstood".

Speaking on the sidelines of an Athens, Greece, immigration conference, Pourmohammadi said: "Actually the case has been misunderstood. (Ahmadinejad) did not mean to raise this matter."

But Iran's Iran's foreign minister, Manouchehr Mottaki, says the Holocaust "myth" was the official Iranian government's position on the issue.

Iran's foreign minister Manouchehr Mottaki said Friday that remarks made earlier this week by the country's president that the Nazi mass murder of Jews during World War II was a "myth" was the official Iranian government's position on the issue. "The words of [president] Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on the Holocaust and on Israel are not personal opinions, nor isolated statements but they express the view of the [Iranian] government," Mottaki said. Ahmadinejad made the Holocaust remarks on Wednesday while it was in October he said Israel should be "wiped off the map."

Seems pretty clear to me.

Meanwhile, the AP thinks Iran is just riling Israel.

Well, like yeah, call for your country to be "wiped off the map" would piss most people off.

via LGF.
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