I know you must have seen this but...

I just had to note it:
From an article by Agence France-Presse:

Iran's hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has openly called for Israel to be "wiped off the map".

"The establishment of the Zionist regime was a move by the world oppressor against the Islamic world," the president told a conference in Tehran on Wednesday entitled 'The World without Zionism'.

The article goes on to explain that the "world oppressor" is of course the "great Satan" aka in the civilized world as the United States.

http://www.breitbart.com/news/2005/10/26/051026100315.ucvp4gh3.html

AP wrote about it here.

Here's a little sidestory on the cozy friendship building between Venezuela and Iran.