UNITED NATIONS (AFP) — US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Friday pilloried Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad during a UN Security Council debate for his "unacceptable" verbal attacks on Israel.
Ahmadinejad said that "another member of this body, the United Nations, should be wiped from the face of the earth, should be destroyed, and should not exist," the top US diplomat said. "That is simply unacceptable."
She said Washington would "be asking that the Council convene again to take up the matter of one member of the United Nations calling for the destruction of another member ... in a way that simply should not be allowed, if you will pardon my saying so, in polite company."
In his address to the UN General Assembly Tuesday, Ahmadinejad lashed out at Israel and its chief ally the United States, saying "the Zionist regime is on a definite slope to collapse and there is no way for it to get out of the cesspool created by itself and its supporters."
But he did not repeat his previous comments that the Jewish state should be "wiped off the map."
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