Iranian rhetoric strikes again

Earlier this month I wrote a blog entry on "Wiesenthal's struggle remembered" about the ongoing presence of antisemitism.

Now the old pronouncement of Ayatollah Khomeini has reappeared:

• Iran's president calls for Israel to be "wiped off the map"

The comments have been widely condemned but not so much in the Middle East (except for Egypt and the Palestinian Authority):

• Iranian press defiant over Israel
• Iran leader defends anti-Israel remarks

As usual the perpetrators claim the remarks are not anti-Jewish, just anti-Israel and anti-Zionist.

Update (Dec. 2006): Now Iran has sponsored a holocaust conference whose purpose is to deny that the holocaust happened. I agree with Canada's Prime Minister:

• Iran's holocaust conference is an "an offence to all Canadians"