Okay, but that still isn't enough evidence to show that he will actually go through with it. He is a politician. There is much reason to guess that he has said many of those statements to boost his support with the anti-Israeli population.
Besides, Ahmandejad does not control the military in Iran, Ali Khamenei does. His quotes:
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In 2001 Khamenei famously remarked that "this cancerous tumor of a state [Israel] should be removed from the region." On the same occasion he proposed that "Palestinian refugees should return and Muslims, Christians and Jews could choose a government for themselves, excluding immigrant Jews."
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In 2005 Khamenei responded to President Ahmadinejad's alleged remark that Israel should be "wiped off the map" by saying that "the Islamic Republic has never threatened and will never threaten any country."[40] Moreover Khamenei's main advisor in foreign policy, Ali Akbar Velayati, refused to take part in Holocaust conference. In contrast to Ahmadinejad's remarks, Velayati said that Holocaust was a genocide and a historical reality.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali_Kha...rael-Palestine