Iran Is Back-Pedaling But Jewish Leaders Wants Iranian President Banned From Europe

Paris - Jewish community leaders from across Europe want Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad banned from setting foot on the continent.

But Iran's foreign minister insisted that his country's hard-line president really didn't mean it when he said he'd like to see Israel "wiped off the map."
"Nobody can remove a country from the map. This is a misunderstanding in Europe of what our president mentioned," Manouchehr Mottaki said.
Mottaki also countered President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's assertions that the Holocaust is nothing but a myth, saying Iran now has "no argument" that the genocide in fact occurred.
The foreign minister's major back-pedaling came as he also tried to assure European nations that Iran is not seeking nuclear weapons.