Iranian
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Thursday that the state of Israel
is a "stinking corpse" that is destined to disappear, the French news
agency AFP reported.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Photo: AP
"Those
who think they can revive the stinking corpse of the usurping and fake
Israeli regime by throwing a birthday party are seriously mistaken,"
the official IRNA news agency quoted Ahmadinejad as having said.
"Today the reason for the Zionist regime's existence is questioned and this regime is on its way to annihilation."
Ahmadinejad further stated that Israel "has reached the end like
a dead rat after being slapped by the Lebanese" - referring to the
Second Lebanon War in the summer of 2006.