He was killed in a targeted strike by Israel on his residence in Tehran. At a conference on “A World Without Zionism” in 2005 he quoted from the founder of the Islamic Republic, Ayatollah Khomeini, and spoke of Israel as “the occupying regime of Jerusalem”, calling it a “disgraceful cancerous growth” which “must be wiped off the map”. It was later claimed that his remarks had been misinterpreted in seeming to call for the destruction of Israel. Interviewed by Piers Morgan on CNN in 2012, Ahmadinejad said: “So when we say ‘to be wiped’, we say for occupation to be...
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