Ahmadinejad says Israel should be "wiped off the map".

More from the followers of that wonderful religion of peace. And the non-Muslim world is suppose to believe Iran wants nuclear power plants only to produce energy and not nuclear weapons???

(Newsroom 2005) -- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Wednesday that Israel should be "wiped off the map".

The Islamic Republic officially refuses to recognise Israel's right to exist.

The official IRNA news agency reported that President Ahmadinejad told a conference called "The World without Zionism" that "Israel must be wiped off the map".

The conference was attended by 3,000 students who chanted "Death to Israel" and "Death to America".

President Ahmadinejad, a former member of the hardline Revolutionary Guards and traditional religious conservative, said there could be no let-up in hostility to Israel.

He said: "The Islamic world will not let its historic enemy live in its heartland".