Memorial photos of tourists with Ahmadinejad in Turkey

The Washington Post’s fact-checker editor Glenn Kessler says the interpretation gets murkier when Ahmadinejad’s quote is set against other Iranian propaganda. Karim Sadjadpour, an Iranian specialist at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, cites proof that the Iranian government releases propaganda that clearly says Israel should be “wiped off”. Joshua Teitelbaum of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs discovered pictures of Persian propaganda banners that clearly say in English: “Israel should be wiped out of the face of the world.” In March 2016, Homeland tested a ballistic missile painted with the phrase “Israel should be wiped off the Earth” in Hebrew. The missile is reported to be capable of reaching Israel.The Official Web site of the President of Iran quoted Ahmadinejad as saying on 15 May 2011 “The reason for our insistence that the Zionist regime should be wiped out and vanished is that the Zionist regime is the main base for imposing oppression and harbors the main terrorists of the world.”