Ahmedinejad- myth vs. fact

Just after doing the Palestine- myth vs fact post, I got an email about Ahemdinejad's not really saying he wants Israel wiped off the map, among other things. I've heard this countless times in the news, in conversations, and I never really questioned it myself, so I was intrigued.

Here it is:

It turns out that Ahmadinejad never said what is being routinely attributed to him. Juan Cole, a professor of Middle Eastern studies at University of Michigan who reads Persian, explains that he actually stated (quoting the late Ayatollah Khomeini): "The Imam said that this regime occupying Jerusalem (een rezhim-e ishghalgar-e qods) must [vanish from] from the page of time (bayad az safheh-ye ruzgar mahv shavad)."

http://www.albionmonitor.com/0605a/iranmisquote.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mScWWtRfGQ

http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/january2007/260107offthemap.htm

http://www.aimislam.com/news/analysis/1355--what-did-ahmadinejad-really-say.html

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article16218.htm

http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/206127

http://www.counterpunch.org/tilley08282006.html

http://www.consortiumnews.com/2009/091909.html