Mahmoud Ahmadinejad s administration has set up a council of 15 close advisers. Agence France-Presse reported the council will define and guard the hard-line Iranian president s thought and works. Ahmadinejad has caused much concern over his public statements denouncing the West and Israel, which he said has a countdown until its destruction. He also has called the Holocaust a myth, hosting a revisionism conference in December. “Iran is stronger than ever,” he said last week at a press conference. “The secret is to believe in God. Those who are for God are victorious.”
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