Israel will be annihilated, vows Iran's president

IRAN'S President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad yesterday said Israel was a "rotten, dried tree" that will be annihilated by "one storm".

Opening a conference supporting the Palestinians, Mr Ahmadinejad fired a series of verbal shots at Israel, saying it was a "permanent threat" to the Middle East that will "soon" be liberated and questioned the validity of the Nazi Holocaust against Jews in World War II. "Like it or not, the Zionist regime is heading toward annihilation," Mr Ahmadinejad said.

"The Zionist regime is a rotten, dried tree that will be eliminated by one storm," he said.