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Underfunded, and badly equipped? I guess so, since they don't have sophisticated fighter jets. But they seem to have no trouble procurring explosives for car bombs, and suicide bombers. I don't know the going rate for explosives these days, or any day, for that matter, but common sense tells me that they aren't cheap, especially when the seller, if they are actually buying them, knows what they will be used for.
Subsequently, I'd like to see a link to the mistranslation of what the Iranian president said, or was reported to have said, and I'd like to know who re-translated it to say something else. Nothing that I have seen reported supports the claim that he wasn't calling for the extermination of Israel/Jews in general. I have also never seen anything that supports a claim that he didn't say the Holocaust never happened. I do know that that view, while not prevalent, exists, even here, in the US.
I can also see how that claim would indeed bolster additional support for his rantings from other, less inclined nations. Not that I doubt, but in this case, a little supporting evidence would be nice, since it runs so contrary to everything that I have read.
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