Ahmadinejad Sends a Futile Letter by Kurt Nimmo

Iran’s president Ahmadinejad never said Israel should be “wiped off the map,” although Shimon Peres did say “the president of Iran should remember that Iran can also be wiped off the map.” As Anneliese Fikentscher and Andreas Neumann note, Ahmadinejad was deliberately misquoted as part of an ongoing propaganda campaign against Iran by the neocons, in particular the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), founded by Yigal Carmon, who served time in Israeli military intelligence, and Meyrav Wurmser, a neocon that had a hand in crafting the neocon document “A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm” presented to then Israeli president, Benjamin Netanyahu. MEMRI is known for selectively quoting and distorting Arab and Muslim news reports and editorials.