Anti-Israel Jewish sect supports Iran

MEMBERS of a radical Jewish sect have met with top Iranian officials in Tehran to show support for President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s call for the destruction of Israel.

Leading rabbis of Neturei Karta, an anti-Zionist group of ultra-Orthodox Jews who consider the existence of Israel an abomination, met with Vice-President Gholamreza Aghazadeh, Israel’s Yediot Aharonot newspaper reported.

Mr Ahmadinejad has said the Jewish state “must be wiped off the map” or moved as far away as Alaska - comments that have provoked anger in the West and condemnation from the UN Security Council.