Mottaki didn't mean Israel

Over the weekend, the media here made a big deal out of a speech at the World Economic Forum by Iranian foreign minister Manouchehr Mottaki, in which Mottaki purportedly said that Israel could not be wiped off the map: Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said yesterday that no country could be wiped off the map, contradicting a previous statement by Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad