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From WNYC in New York, this is NPR's On the Media. I'm Bob Garfield. And I'm Brooke Gladstone. On Monday, the New York Times ran a couple of photos alongside its story on the Iran-Mexico

World Cup match. In one of them, a protester held up a sign that read, Israel is on the map to stay.

It was an obvious reference to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's infamous remark at an

anti-Zionist conference last October that Israel, quote,

should be wiped off the map. That utterance, since quoted in the media thousands of times,

has been read as an ominous portent of Iran's nuclear aspirations. But is that, in fact, what he

said? A debate over the translation was sparked by an email made public

by University of Michigan professor and Middle East specialist Juan Cole.

The New York Times, which first ran the quote in a story by reporter Nazila Fati,

examined the dispute.

Actually, Deputy Foreign Editor Ethan Brunner examined it,

and his findings were published in last Sunday's paper.

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