I'm pretty sure an AFP editor added the (Israel) to an otherwise reasonable interpretation:
"Today there is a strong will... to remove the Zionist regime and implement a legal Palestinian regime all over Palestine. The continued survival of this regime (Israel) means nothing but suffering for the region," Ahmadinejad said.
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Iran's Ahmadinejad attacks Israel at Iraq conference http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060708/wl_mideast_afp/iraqunrestsecuritymideastiran;_ylt=ApcUM4KuqBvKKEXoB1eAJrGbOrgF;_ylu=X3oDMTBidHQxYjh2BHNlYwN5bnN0b3J5 by Farhad Pouladi 22 minutes ago July 08 2006 A regional conference on security in Iraq opened in Iran with President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad calling on Islamic countries to mobilise against Israel and "remove" the "Zionist regime". "The basic problem in the Islamic world is the existence of the Zionist regime, and the Islamic world and the region must mobilise to remove this problem," the president said at the opening of the two-day conference. "Today there is a strong will... to remove the Zionist regime and implement a legal Palestinian regime all over Palestine. The continued survival of this regime (Israel) means nothing but suffering for the region," Ahmadinejad said. "The biggest threat today for the region is the existence of the fake Zionist regime," he added, before going on to attack Israel's supporters. "I am reminding them to stop the crimes of this corrupt government before it is too late, and open the way for a government arising from the votes of the indigenous people of Palestine, all over Palestine," the president said. Israel two weeks ago launched a massive incursion into the Gaza Strip after Palestinian militants from three groups, including Hamas's armed wing, captured an Israeli soldier in a deadly raid on a border outpost. With talk of the violence overshadowing the topic of Iraq, Ahmadinejad -- who has in the past called for Israel to be "wiped off the map" or moved as far away as Alaska -- also issued an ominous warning to Western powers. "Nations in the region will be more furious every day, and it will not be long before this intense fury will lead to a huge explosion," Ahmadinejad said. "The waves of fury of Muslim nations will not be confined within the boundaries of the region, and the people who close their ears to the cries of the Palestinians and blindly support this regime will be responsible for the consequences," he warned. Iran does not recognise Israel and is opposed to a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The foreign ministers of Arab nations attending the conference also condemned Israel for its "increasing aggression against the Palestinian people" and attacked the "silence" of the international community. "The Arab foreign ministers participating in today's Tehran meeting expressed their strong condemnation of this continuing and increasing aggression against the Palestinian people," Arab League Secretary General Amr Mussa said in a statement on behalf of officials from Bahrain, Egypt, Kuwait, Iraq, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Syria. The statement said the officials also "voiced sorrow over international silence, and held United Nations Security Council members responsible for the dangerous violations of international laws and treaties". Officials from the host country Iran and Turkey, plus the Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC), are also in Tehran for the meeting. On the main topic of Iraq, Iran said it would ask delegates to agree on a call for a timetable for the withdrawal of foreign troops. "Iran, as the host of the conference, has prepared a draft statement and the experts have to discuss it," foreign ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi told state television. "Different subjects have been addressed in it, such as the independence of the Iraqi government, a timetable for the pullout of occupying forces, helping reconstruction, providing security in Iraq and the necessity of cooperation to combat terrorism," he said. Ahmadinejad also said it was "essential to prevent the coming and going and entry of people and terrorist groups in Iraq that pursue no aims but to create insecurity, disagreement and hatred, and who prepare the grounds for a long presence of foreigners in this country." Improved security, he added, "will leave no pretext for the presence of foreigners." The last such conference on Iraq took place in April 2005 in Istanbul with little noticeable effect, and a previous meeting in Tehran in November 2004 also failed to yield concrete results. Iran -- along with Syria -- has also been repeatedly accused of supporting insurgents. #33#
