Iranian president’s UN speech ‘blatant anti-Semitism’, says Germany

UNITED NATIONS: Germany’s foreign minister on Friday blasted the Iranian president’s speech at the UN General Assembly as “blatant anti-Semitism” and urged the 192 UN member states to join in condemning it.

On Tuesday, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad railed against “Zionist murderers” and dwelled on what he described as Zionist control of international finance.

“The statements of the Iranian president about Israel are irresponsible and unacceptable,” German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier told the General Assembly.

“The blatant anti-Semitism of his speech this year was intolerable and demands our mutual condemnation,” he said. The Iranian president has previously said that Israel should be wiped off the map.

Earlier on Friday, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice told a UN Security Council meeting on Israel and the Palestinians that the council should take up the issue of Ahmadinejad’s comments about the Jewish state. reuters

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