Iranian leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, today, on the occasion of Israel's 60th birthday:
"While world leaders sent the Jewish state congratulations on its 60th anniversary, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's birthday wish was that the “Zionist regime” be annihilated, according to the Agence France-Presse. "Those who think they can revive the stinking corpse of the usurping and fake Israeli regime by throwing a birthday party are seriously mistaken," Ahmadinejad told the official IRNA news agency. He went on to compare Israel to a “dead rat after being slapped by the Lebanese,” making reference to a 2006 war between the Jewish state and Hezbollah..."
His rhetoric is much like Adolf Hitler's back when he was attacking the Jews.
And the world ought to take it seriously.