Ahmadinejad’s Alleged Remarks On Israel: “As someone who was born in Tehran, lived there for seventeen years and is a native Farsi speaker, I have read the original transcripts of the speech in Farsi and want to inform you that Ahmadinejad never said ‘Israel must be wiped off the map,’ but rather, his statement was grossly mistranslated and taken out of context, perhaps to help make a case for military action against Iran.” – Sam Sedaei Huffington Post)