American Empire must be wiped off the map

"Wiped off the map" or "Vanish from the pages of time" translation

Many news sources repeated the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) statement that Ahmadinejad had demanded that "Israel must be wiped off the map",^[5][6] an English idiom which means to "cause a place to stop existing",^[7] or to "obliterate totally",^[8] or "destroy completely".^[9]

Ahmadinejad's phrase was " بايد از صفحه روزگار محو شود " according to the text published on the President's Office's website, and was a quote of Ayatollah Khomeini.^[10]

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