Iran FM calls on Muslims to 'erase' Israel

[Behind the Aegis]

'If each Muslim throws a bucket of water on Israel, Israel will be erased,' Mottaki tells Tehran conference, adding 'Zionist regime is disintegrating from within'

AFP Published: 06.01.08, 17:56 / Israel News

Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki called on the world's Muslims on Sunday to work to "erase" Israel, in the latest verbal attack by Tehran against the Jewish state.

"As the Imam Khomeini said, if each Muslim throws a bucket of water on Israel, Israel will be erased," Mottaki told a conference in Tehran, recalling a saying by Iran's late revolutionary leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has sparked international outrage for his repeated attacks against Israel, which he has predicted is doomed to disappear and described as a "stinking corpse" and a "dead rat".

His most notorious attack was in 2005 when he repeated another saying from Khomeini calling for Israel to be "wiped from the map".

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[Fredda Weinberg]

1. Fortunately, he called for Islamic cooperation. We're safe, dear n/t

[TheWraith]

2. Why does anybody take this nonsense seriously?

It means about as much as, well, anything that the Bush administration says publicly. It's so much pablum, mostly for domestic propaganda purposes.

[Vegasaurus]

3. What "nonsense"?

Threats of destruction against another country?

What other country in the world puts up with this?

(Answer:none)

[TheWraith]

5. The trash talk, that nonsense.

And LOTS of other countries put up with it. Ever listened to what India and Pakistan say about each other? How about the US' statements about Iran? Have you bombed a foreign country's soil lately? The Israelis have. Declared that another country rightfully belongs to you? Ask China about Taiwan.

This sort of gum flapping means even less than most of those pronouncements.

[pingzing58]

4. The Iranian every day person wants peace, education, employment and a better life.

[notfullofit]

6. But the

Iranian people have no say in what happens in their own country.

[LeftishBrit]

7. Quite!

Unfortunately, they're not getting too many of these things from their far-RW government.

The same is of course true of many other countries.

[Vegasaurus]

8. Most citizens living under rogue dictatorships

(even those that pretend to be democracies)

just wish for a better life.

Unfortunately, many of them also support the very governments which are oppressing them.