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> Israel is threatened by Iran and Iran's leaders have said they would wipe Israel off the map.

This was not said, it's just Zionist propaganda. Even the Washington Post says so ( https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/post/did-a... ).

The fact that this lie is repeated over and over shows you how thoroughly Zionist propaganda has propagated through the US media.



That article also says the following, indicating that the propagation of this particular mistranslation was even done by Iran itself.

> But the story doesn’t end there. Karim Sadjadpour, an Iranian specialist at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, notes that Iranian government entities began to erect billboards and signs with the “wipe off” phrase in English. Joshua Teitelbaum of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs compiled an interesting collection of photographs of these banners, such as one on the building that houses reserve military forces of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. “Israel should be wiped out of the face of the world,” the sign reads in English."




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