Sam Sedaei: The Biggest Lie Told To The American People: Ahmadinejad's Alleged Remarks On Israel - Politics on The Huffington Post

Sam Sedaei: The Biggest Lie Told To The American People: Ahmadinejad's Alleged Remarks On Israel - Politics on The Huffington Post: "As the Bush Administration beats the drums for another war of choice with another country that had nothing to do with 9/11, they are using another series of fabricated facts to indoctrinate the American people into thinking that Iran poses a serious threat to our security. At the core of these fabrications is the claim that on October 25, 2005, during a speech at the Ministry of Interior conference hall, the then newly-elected President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad remarked that 'Israel must be wiped off the map.' As someone who was born in Tehran, lived there for seventeen years and is a native Farsi speaker, I have read the original transcripts of the speech in Farsi and want to inform you that Ahmadinejad never said 'Israel must be wiped off the map,' but rather, his statement was grossly mistranslated and taken out of context, perhaps to help make a case for military action against Iran."

This is not the first time that I have heard that Ahmadinejad's speeches have been mistranslated, and surely it was not accidental. I just love the fact that the corporate media takes the mistranslation and runs with it every time. Whatever happened to research and fact-checking? Certainly the man is not a good person, but the government has chosen to make him look even worse with bad translations.