Fighting Words
June 16, 2006
Ask an American about Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s foreign policy agenda, and there’s a good chance you’ll hear about the president’s remark that Israel “should be wiped off the map.” For eight months, news media have all but fused the phrase to Ahmadinejad’s name; many see it as a portent of Iran’s nuclear aspirations. But might Ahmadinejad have been mistranslated? New York Times deputy foreign editor Ethan Bronner examined the question, and tells Brooke what he found.
