Iranian agency corrects story on president-elect describing Israel as a 'wound'

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Iranian agency corrects story on president-elect describing Israel as a 'wound'

Iran's student news agency on Friday corrected a story in which it had quoted President-elect Hassan Rouhani as saying Israel was a "wound" on the body of the Muslim world that must be removed. "Earlier some internal news agencies, including ISNA, had presented Mr. Rouhani as saying the Zionist regime is a wound on the body of the Muslim world that needs to be removed, and this was corrected," the agency said in a report late on Friday. In its revised report, the agency ran the full comment by Rouhani broadcast on state-run Press TV, in ...

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