Wednesday, 06 February 2013
Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad attends the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) summit in Cairo February 6, 2013. (Reuters)
The Iranian people are ready to march on Israel to “wipe it out” if the Jewish state attacks the Islamic republic, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said in statements published Wednesday by Egypt’s state news agency.
“The people of Iran are ready to march on Israel to wipe it out if it launches into an adventure against Tehran” and attacks the country, the Iranian president told Egyptian newspaper editors, according to excerpts published by MENA.
“The Zionists... hope to aggress Iran and attack it, but they are very afraid of the Iranian reaction and of the consequences of such an attack,” he said in the Arabic transcription of the comments made during a visit to Egypt.
“Our defense forces are capable of dissuading any aggressor and making him regret his act,” Ahmadinejad said.
Israeli President Shimon Peres said on Tuesday that the threat of a nuclear-armed Iran was growing under the "terrifying dictatorship" ruling the Islamic republic.
“The Iranian danger has grown,” Peres said at the opening of the newly-elected Israeli parliament. “It threatens our existence, the independence of the Arab states, the peace of the whole world......
FULL ARTICLE HERE: Iranians can ‘wipe out’ Israel if attacked: Ahmadinejad
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