Ahmadinejad asks Interpol to arrest '25 Zionist war criminals'
Two days after his denunciation of Jewish state as racist prompted walk-out from UN meeting on racism, Iranian president accuses Israel of 'brutal acts', 'ethnic cleansing' against Palestinians. 'They must be held accountable for all their brutality,' he says
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told a conference in Tehran on Israel's "genocide and war crimes" in Gaza that Israeli "criminals" should be brought to justice for the war in the Palestinian coastal strip in January.
"(They) must be held accountable for all their brutality," Ahmadinejad told the meeting of prosecutors from Islamic countries in a speech broadcast live on state television.
"The Islamic Republic of Iran ... expects this organization to fulfill its legal duties," he said.
His comments were translated by Iran's English-language Press TV.
On Monday the Iranian president, who has in the past raised doubts about the Nazi Holocaust, denounced Israel at a United Nations conference on racism as a "totally racist government" founded "on the pretext of Jewish sufferings".
Ahmadinejad's comments caused European countries not already boycotting the conference to walk out but drew applause from Islamic delegations. US President Barack Obama on Tuesday condemned his remarks as "appalling and objectionable".
