Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Oct. 28 – Iran’s ultra-conservative President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad defended on Friday his statement earlier this week calling for the destruction of the state of Israel.

AFP: The Vatican condemned on Friday as “unacceptable” Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s statement that Israel should be wiped off the map.

AFP: The UN Security Council on Friday condemned Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s comment that Israel should be “wiped off the map”, a move immediately welcomed by the Israeli ambassador.

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Oct. 28 – Iran’s 1979 Islamic revolution sealed the inevitable fate of destruction for the state of Israel, a senior Iranian cleric told Friday prayers worshippers.

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Oct. 28 – Thousands of hard-line Iranians took part in a state-organised demonstration against Israel in the Iranian capital on Friday which marked Qods Day, or Jerusalem Day.

BBC News: Iran has defended its president’s call for Israel to be “wiped off the map”, saying this has been its foreign policy since the 1979 Islamic revolution.

Canadian Press: Prime Minister Paul Martin is condemning an anti-Israeli diatribe from Iran’s President as a racist relic from a past age.