Although I agree this article was most likely B.S., those of you who believe Iran’s president never said anything about how Israel should be wiped off the map are highly misinformed. I mean no offense here; everyone has their differences in opinion however there is actual video footage of Iran’s president saying this. Please don’t forget that although we should most definitely not link Muslims to Muslim extremists (just as we should not define the people of any other religion by the actions of their extremists) there are Muslims who are in power who do desire the annihilation of Israel. Despite the fact there is documentation, which is historically recognized as fact, of the Jew’s existence in Israel before 622 when the Muslim religion arose. People seem to forget that any land that was owned by the Ottoman’s (the original Muslims started the Ottoman Empire) was taken from others. Yet somehow people believe it’s not fair that the Palestinians (who are descended from the Ottoman Turks) had their land of Israel taken from them. Please do note though, Muslims should not be discriminated against just because they are Muslim. The term Muslim should not be used in a derogatory manner, and Muslims, just like Jews, Christians, Scientologists etc. are ordinary people, just like you and me, religion is not what makes a person who they are and it doesn’t define weather or not a person is good or evil. The sooner everyone accepts this the sooner all this brutal tragic warfare will finally end.

this is ridiculous and an insulant to non-muslims to compare them to a holocaust like course of events.  hitler was a madman and for the iranian leader to degrade himself to that level is homicidal as he would be brought out of power.  tell me if you agree that this is completely bs.

you guys are all right

Look, everything that has been said so far about Iran has been false. Even the statement about “Israel being wiped off the map” was totally false. Shame on you. This has been going on for over a year. There is no way that you should believe anything that is released and printed in mainstream media about Iran.

And you’re supposed to be a progressive site? You should be arrested for accessory and tortured.

I recommend that you verify news items that originate from neo-con and pro-Israel sources before you publish them in your journal. As you are aware, a vicious campaign is being waged by the US and Israel to demonize and dehumanize Iran to later justify aggression against that country, even to the extent of using tactical nuclear bombs. Your journal should not become party to such crimes against humanity and war crimes.

FOX News certainly ran with the story!  They had a former ambassador from Morocco, I think named Ginsberg, attempting to foment WWIII on the basis of this story.

Fake!

By printing rightwing propaganda like this and then adding a weak-kneed retraction that it “may be bogus” you are simply acting as a part of the rightwing echo chamber and are helping Bush to launch another war of aggression.

Com’on, show some integrity and candidly admit you were wrong.

Why all the fuss?  Just ask George Bush to talk it all over with God and see what She wants to do about this subject?

Amir Taheri? Benador Asociates? Alarm bells?

What does it take for you guys to spot a bogus story? You should be ashamed of yourselves for peddling this garbage, replete with Nazi-era graphics, for crying out loud.

ALSO NOT TRUE  Holocaust “historian” Edwin Black claimed that Iran was responsible for the Holocaust. But see Iran, Jews and the Holocaust: An answer to Mr. Black by Dr Abbas Milani of Stanford University.

More about Jews of Iran:
1- Jews in Iran Describe a Life of Freedom, Christian Science Monitor, February 03, 1998
(http://csmonitor.com/cgi-bin/durableRedirect.pl?/durable/1998/02/03/intl/intl.3.html)

2- Polish Jews were given refuge in Iran during WWII
Associated Press
Thursday, November 23, 2000
(http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A53268-2000Nov22?language=printer)

3- Iranian Jews PREFER Tehran to Tel-Aviv, Jerusalem Post Nov. 3, 2005
(http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1131043721479&pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull)

The story is about 95% discredited.

1.  The text of the bill does not contain the wording in question.
2.  Even the National Post, source for the original rumor-story, has yanked it and put up a replacement.

More here.

This story is untrue.

check the Associated Press wire reports on the corrections:

Politician Morris Motamed, one of about 25,000 Jews who live in Iran, called the report a slap in the face to his minority community.

“Such a plan has never been proposed or discussed in parliament,” Motamed told the Associated Press.

“Such news, which appeared abroad, is an insult to religious minorities here.”

Another Iranian legislator said the newspaper has distorted a bill that he presented to parliament, which calls for more conservative clothing for Muslims.

“It’s a sheer lie. The rumours about this are worthless,” Emad Afroogh told Associated Press.

We checked it out.  It is not TOTALLY bogus, in that it’s been kicked around for months there, but it has NOT been passed, and doesn’t seem close to being passed.  It is the Guardian Council that has final say, NOT the Supreme Leader, and Moses Motamed, the Jewish Minority MP denies the story too.

...And in those days, there shall be wars & rumors of wars! The antichrist has revealed himself! Rev. 13:16-17 IIThess. 2:3-12
This Iran leader in my opinion is the anti-christ!

This story is FALSE!
Check link above.