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November 28, 2007

Ahmadinejad Calls Mideast Conference a Failure
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http://enews.voanews.com/t?ctl=1A6580E:A6F02AD83191E160D9077FF8BC6CC3B6A13B8D4F2090AB2B& Iranian president
says only way to resolve decades-old dispute is to allow Palestinians,
including Islamist militant group Hamas, to have a say in any
settlement





Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says
Tuesday's U.S.-brokered Mideast peace conference was a "failure," and
that Israel is "doomed to collapse."

State-run media quote Mr. Ahmadinejad as saying at a Cabinet meeting
Wednesday, in Tehran that Israel's collapse is inevitable because, as
he put it, it is created on "aggression, oppression and crime."

The Iranian president says the only way to resolve the decades-old
dispute between Israel and the Palestinians is to allow the
Palestinians, including the Islamist militant group Hamas, to have a
say in any settlement.

Mr. Ahmadinejad raised an international outcry in 2005 when he called
for the Jewish state to be "wiped off the map."

Iran was not invited to the Mideast conference in Annapolis, Maryland,
but its closest ally, Syria, was in attendance, as was Saudi Arabia.

Some information for this report was provided by AFP and AP.


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