Guenter Grass hits out at 'campaign' over Israel-Iran poem

German Nobel literature laureate Guenter Grass hit back Thursday at what he called a "campaign" by critics of his poem accusing Israel of plotting Iran's annihilation and threatening world peace.

The 84-year-old sparked outrage at home and abroad Wednesday when he published "What must be said" in a newspaper in which he said he feared a nuclear-armed Israel "could wipe out the Iranian people" with a "first strike". (AFP)