
Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah declared in a speech aired on Al-Manar TV and Al-Jazeera TV that: If there had been a Muslim to carry out Imam Khomeini's fatwa against the renegade Salman Rushdie, this rabble who insult our Prophet Mohammed in Denmark, Norway and France would not have dared to do so. I am sure there are millions of Muslims who are ready to give their lives to defend our prophet's honour and we have to be ready to do anything for that.
Ahmadinejad
He has called for the dissolution of the state of Israel and its government, which he does not regard as legitimate or representative of the population and for free elections in the region. He believes that the Palestinians need a stronger voice in the region's future.One of his most controversial statements was one in which, according to the initial IRNA translation, he called for Israel to be wiped off the map," though the interpretation of this quote is highly questionable. He has also been condemned for describing the Holocaust as a myth