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In 2008, the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs published an in-depth study of the Iranian leadership's views on Israel and Jews. At the time, international attention had been focused on President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's October 2005 statement that Israel should be 'wiped off the map.' It was demonstrated that Ahmadinejad indeed called for the destruction of Israel and his words were not misrepresented. This newer study takes the previous analysis a step further. What is striking is that these themes are being voiced by a broad spectrum of the Iranian leadership, including different senior officers in the Revolutionary Guard. - Iranian declarations calling for Israel's destruction are being voiced by a broad spectrum of the Iranian leadership, including different senior officers in the Revolutionary Guard. - These spokesmen are not talking about a long historical process regarding Israel's elimination, but rather a development that is to take place in the near term. - These calls for the destruction of Israel for the most part are not made in the context of an Iranian retaliatory strike, and are not contingent upon what actions Israel will take. - Thus the problem is not just President Ahmadinejad, who will be out of office when his term ends in 2013, but rather with the entire present-day Iranian leadership.