>>>>>The Reuters report was based on our own translation from the original Farsi by our Tehran bureau. We don’t rely on “tertiary sources” for our reporting.<<<<<

Perhaps it’d save your reputation if you fired your entire Tehran bureau who seem to be utterly incompetant in their translation skills!!! There are professional translators out there you know!

Isn’t the great bias of the mainstream Media (Reuteres not an exception) only too obvious…at least to some folks? Unfortunately their slanted reportage that is totally devoid of integrity, does effectively taint the views of many; since the majority take the news at face value especially those provided by the Media moguls…which is all that the media (the mouth piece for the politicians) wants to begin with! So, mission accomplished!

By the way, are you being paid more for insisting on your stupidity ?

Crazysane

You do realize that you quoted a Reuters article, right? That is not the same as quoting the original source (which is itself a crude translation from Farsi). In fact, since I can speak Farsi and know exactly what he said, so you would be best to find a literal translation of the text, which in a word-for-word translation is:
“The Zionist regime must vanish from the page of time.”

Considering that Farsi (like French) is a poetic language, and it specifically used the word “regime” (i.e. government and not the nation) it is in no way a threat. It is a declaration of what Iran believes is inevitable (for whatever crazy reason). Nonetheless, it is not declaration of war.

You would be wise to educate yourself with more than tertiary sources and biased journalists.

TEHRAN, Oct 26 (Reuters) – Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Wednesday that Israel should be “wiped off the map”, the official IRNA news agency reported, a statement roundly condemned by three European powers and Canada.
Support for the Palestinian cause is a central pillar of the Islamic Republic which officially refuses to recognise Israel’s right to exist.
“Israel must be wiped off the map,” Ahmadinejad told a conference called “The World without Zionism”, attended by some 3,000 conservative students who chanted “Death to Israel” and “Death to America”.
Under reformist President Mohammad Khatami, whose eight-year tenure ended earlier this year, Iran had shown signs of easing its implacable hostility towards Israel. Officials said Tehran might not object to a two-state solution if that was what the Palestinians wanted.
But Ahmadinejad, a former member of the hardline Revolutionary Guards and traditional religious conservative, said there could be no let-up in its hostility to Israel.
“The Islamic world will not let its historic enemy live in its heartland,” he said…

If you want a second source for Ahmadinejad saying that Israel should be “wiped off the map” you can look at the published text of the speech. I’ve added a hyperlink to a New York Times translation in the blog above. It’s true that he was reiterating what the late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini said, but he was embracing, not rejecting it. He added that Khomeini’s original declaration that Israel should be wiped off the map was a “very wise statement.”

Your attempt at misinformation is intellectually insulting.