Ahmadinejad criticizes Israel again after U.N. walk-out

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TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran's president accused Israel on Wednesday of "brutal acts" and "ethnic cleansing" against the Palestinians, two days after his denunciation of the Jewish state as racist prompted a walk-out from a U.N. meeting on race.

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.

He said Iran, Israel's arch-foe, had submitted requests for the arrests of 25 "Zionist war criminals" to Interpol. Iran often refers to Israel as the "Zionist regime." Iran had previously announced that it had taken such action with Interpol.

"(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 in comments translated by Iran's English-language Press TV.

"Siege and mass murder of the Palestinians in Gaza and ethnic cleansing in other occupied areas are all considered as other crimes committed by the Zionist regime," Ahmadinejad said.
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