Ahmadinejad mocks "Israel" on 60th anniversary

Source; AFP, 09-05-2008
TEHRAN: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Thursday called 'Israel' a "stinking corpse" which is doomed to disappear as the Jewish state celebrated its 60th anniversary. "Those who think they can revive the stinking corpse of the usurping and fake 'Israeli' regime by throwing a birthday party are seriously mistaken," Ahmadinejad was quoted as saying by the official Islamic Republic News Agency. "Today the reason for the Zionist regime's existence is questioned, and this regime is on its way to annihilation," he said. Ahmadinejad added that 'Israel' "has reached the end like a dead rat after being slapped by the Lebanese" - a reference to the July-August 2006 war between 'Israel' and Lebanon, when Hizbullah became the first Arab force to deny victory to the Jewish state.