Ahmadinejad: "The people of Iran are ready to march on Israel to wipe it out if it launches into an adventure against Tehran"

From Jihad Watch / Posted by Robert Spencer

Still more genocidal threats. And the world still yawns. "Iranians can ‘wipe out’ Israel if attacked: Ahmadinejad," from AFP, February 6 (thanks to Voice of the Copts):

The Iranian people are ready to march on Israel to “wipe it out” if the Jewish state attacks the Islamic republic, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said in statements published Wednesday by Egypt’s state news agency. 

“The people of Iran are ready to march on Israel to wipe it out if it launches into an adventure against Tehran” and attacks the country, the Iranian president told Egyptian newspaper editors, according to excerpts published by MENA.

“The Zionists... hope to aggress Iran and attack it, but they are very afraid of the Iranian reaction and of the consequences of such an attack,” he said in the Arabic transcription of the comments made during a visit to Egypt.

“Our defense forces are capable of dissuading any aggressor and making him regret his act,” Ahmadinejad said....

Much of the international community fears that Iran’s nuclear program includes efforts to develop nuclear weapons, a charge that Tehran denies.

Israel believes that Iran must be prevented from reaching military nuclear capabilities at any cost and refuses to rule out military intervention to achieve this.

Ahmadinejad is on historic visit to Egypt, the first by an Iranian president since Tehran severed diplomatic ties with Cairo in 1980 in protest at the Egypt-Israel peace treaty.

While in Cairo, he is attending a summit of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation [.]