Oh you meant the regime, the democraticly freely elected regieme that's surrendered Gaza, help set up the PA and has sat on it's hands while the HAMAS government declared it wouldn't arrest militants and would even like to step up attacks. Yeah, real bunch of cold blooded killers there. Nothing at all like the Iranian government who hires foreign mercenaries in order to smash native distentors, funds terrorist groups, and is a by word in the world for religious oppression.TEHRAN, Iran (Reuters) -- Iran's president said on Friday that the existence of the "Zionist regime", Iran's term for Israel, was a threat to the Islamic world, days after declaring Iran had become a nuclear power by enriching uranium.
But the tone of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's speech to a conference on the Palestinian issue was slightly more moderate than fiery rhetoric last year, when Iran's official IRNA news agency quoted him as telling a conference: "Israel must be wiped off the map."
"The existence of the Zionist regime is tantamount to an imposition of an unending and unrestrained threat so that none of the nations and Islamic countries of the region and beyond can feel secure from its threat," Ahmadinejad said on Friday.
In February, Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki had said Ahmadinejad's October comments had been misunderstood and that he had been speaking about the Israeli "regime" not the country. Mottaki had said a country could not be removed from the map.
His October remarks drew widespread condemnation. (Full story)
Some analysts had said Ahmadinejad might use slightly more moderate language at Friday's conference after announcing Iran had successfully enriched uranium, a step condemned by world powers and which has ratcheted up pressure on the country.
Course I don't believe he meant the government instead of the nation as a whole for 10 minutes. It wasn't that long ago he was screaming to wipe Israel off the map.