Iran said on Saturday that it does not seek the destruction of Israel, although it does not recognize its as legitimate. “We are not talking about eliminating any nation or any country,” Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said in reference to Iran’s position towards Israel.
“A primary school student also knows that it is not possible to remove a country from the map,” he told delegates to the World Economic Forum on the Middle East held in Jordan.
However, according to AFP, he described Israel as a “legal” regime, saying the future of historical Palestine should be decided in a referendum among its original inhabitants --including Christians, Jews and Muslims and those of them who are refugees.
