Says the Iranian President.

Iran’s hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad today openly called for Israel to be “wiped off the map”. “The establishment of the Zionist regime was a move by the world oppressor against the Islamic world,” he told a conference in Tehran entitled ‘The world without Zionism’.

And invokes a return of the good ol’ days when the “revolutionary” terrorist-preacher Khomeini held Iran in his sway. Personally, I prefer a world which has a strong counterbalance like Israel opposed to the “pure” brand of Islam, the Saudi or Pak variety.

Postscript:

1. For an incisive, first-hand report of Iran’s condition during Khomeini’s days, you don’t need to look any further than Naipaul’s excellent Among the Believers.
2. And our homegrown eminences protested vocally against India siding with the US in the recent IAEA affair. Why doesn’t it surprise me? The Indian Left has a natural affinity for Islamic–and other brands of–terrorists given their own Marshall’s track record.