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 BERLIN (Reuters) - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is a
psychopath and anti-Semite whose declarations resemble those of Adolf Hitler, Israeli acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said in a newspaper
interview on Saturday.
"Ahmadinejad speaks today like Hitler before
taking power," Olmert told Germany's Bild
newspaper. "He speaks of the complete destruction and annihilation of
the Jewish people."
Ahmadinejad has questioned the Holocaust and called
for Israel
to be "wiped off the map". He has also suggested the Jewish state
should be moved to Europe or North America.
"So you see, we are dealing with a psychopath of the worst kind, with an
anti-Semite," Olmert said. "God forbid
that this man ever gets his hands on nuclear weapons, to carry out his
threats."
Iran
says it has the sovereign right to enrich uranium to use as fuel in power
stations.
Israel, believed to have the
Middle East's only atomic arsenal, says Iran is months away from
acquiring the know-how to make nuclear weapons. Other experts say Iran is still
years away from being able to produce a nuclear weapon.
Mohamed ElBaradei, head of the U.N. International
Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), delivered a report on Friday saying U.N. checks
in Iran had been hampered
and Tehran
had rebuffed requests to stop making nuclear fuel.
The Islamic Republic said on Saturday it was willing to resume allowing snap
U.N. atomic inspections if its case were dropped by the U.N. Security Council
and passed back to the IAEA.
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