Hardline Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who said on Friday that the people of the Middle East are 'capable of removing the Zionist regime' from the world scene, has repeatedly railed against Israel and the Jews. Here are some of his previous statements: 2005 - October 26: He says Israel is 'doomed to be wiped off from the map', provoking an international uproar. - December 8: He states his view that the Jewish state is a 'tumour'. - December 14: He describes the Holocaust as a 'myth'. 2006 - February 11: Ahmadinejad repeats his view that the Holocaust is a 'myth', arguing that Palestinians and Iraqis are suffering from a 'real Holocaust'. 2007 - March 1: Zionists are the 'true incarnation of Satan, ' he says. - June 3: 'The countdown has started for the Zionist regime's destruction at the hands of the Lebanese and Palestinian peoples,' he says. 2008 - February 20: In a new diatribe he says: 'World powers have created a black and dirty microbe named the Zionist regime and have unleashed it like a savage animal on the nations of the region.' - May 8: He calls Israel a 'stinking corpse' which is doomed to disappear, as the state celebrates its 60th anniversary. 2009 - May 5: 'The Zionist occupiers are destructive microbes, because Zionism itself is occuption, aggression, the use of assassination and annihilation, ' he says. 2010 - September 3: Ahmadinejad says that the people of the Middle East are 'capable of removing the Zionist regime' from the world scene. 