Ahmadinejad: clock ticking to Israel's 'destruction'

Wake up Israel. Wake up America. Wake up, Western world. Ahmadinejad has said over and over that Israel will be destroyed in the near future. He issues threat after threat, but Olmert and Rice continue to pretend there is no danger.
FROM EJPRESS.ORG
Ahmadinejad: clock ticking to Israel's 'destruction'
TEHRAN (AFP)---Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Sunday launched a new verbal attack on Israel, saying a "countdown" has begun that will end with Lebanese and Palestinian militants destroying the Jewish state.
In a speech to mark the 18th anniversary of the death of revolutionary founder Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the president said last summer’s war between Israel and Lebanese militant group Hezbollah started the process.
"In Lebanon, the corrupt, arrogant powers and the Zionist regime did all they could in an unfair 33-day war. But after 60 years its (Israel’s)
greatness fell apart," Iranian media quoted Ahmadinejad as saying.
"The countdown to this regime’s destruction started through the hands of Hezbollah’s children," he said in a speech to visiting foreign guests in Tehran.
"We will witness the destruction of this regime in the near future thanks to the endeavours of all Palestinian and Lebanese fighters," he added.
Ahmadinejad sparked outrage shortly after coming to power in 2005 for saying that Israel should be "wiped from the map" and then repeatedly predicting that the state would disappear.
Iranian officials have expressed bewilderment over the uproar caused by the comments, saying he was merely restating one of Khomeini’s central beliefs that the Jewish state was doomed to destruction.
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