Gravel said Washington’s apparent policy to attack Iran could possibly trigger a nuclear exchange.
Gravel’s concerns were shared by Schaeffer, “I think the point that attacking Iran might trigger a nuclear war is what’s concerning the Bush administration. We have to take the actions and rhetoric of President Ahmadinejad very seriously, it would be irresponsible not to do so. And I think we have to remember this is a man who has called for Israel to be wiped off the map, a man who has denied the Holocaust.”
She said here is a man who has vowed to knock down global powers, and we have to assume that he’s pointing his finger at the United States.
Schaeffer’s comment regarding “wiping Israel off the map” is an oft quoted mistranslation, but one frequently used to attack Iran’s president and his policies.
“Actually he did not say he would wipe Israel off the map,” Jawad explained, “This statement has been corrected but it is still repeated by US officials. He did not say this, but I am not surprised to hear this repeated all the time.”
The actual statement made by Ahmadinejad called for the “removal of the Zionist regime in Jerusalem from the pages of history.” Many experts say that you can “assume” or “infer” Ahmadinejad’s real intentions are to wipe Israel off the map, but the simple fact remains, he did not say it. They point out that Washington’s aim in invading Iraq was to wipe the Baathist regime in Baghdad from the pages of history, but not to wipe Iraq off the map.
One of the cornerstones of Petraeus/Crocker report was what they described as the “malign Iranian involvement in Iraq” and Tehran’s support for special groups that target American troops and other coalition interests in the country.
President Bush later told a select group at a press conference, that America would do what was necessary to prevent Iranian interference in Iraq, a thinly veiled threat of military action.
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