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The prolific author has put together a petition denouncing Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, signed by some 50 other Nobel prize winners, which will run as a full page advertisement in newspapers such as the New York Times.

“We’re sure that the president of Iran, the world’s Number 1 Holocaust denier, plans to destroy and annihilate the Jewish state, and bring disaster to the entire world,” he told Army Radio, adding, “We plan to distribute the petition … so that it reaches as many people as possible.”

He said that Ahmadinejad is “dangerous because he openly claims that he wants to annihilate the State of Israel, to exterminate another six million Jews.”

“I wouldn’t cry if I heard that Ahmadinejad was assassinated,” he quipped, calling the Iranian president “a pathological danger to world peace.”

Wiesel went on to level fierce criticism at the Goldstone report, which accuses both Israel and Hamas of war crimes and possible crimes against humanity in Gaza. “One thing is clear to me, that document was unnecessary.”

Of the report’s author, international jurist Richard Goldstone, Wiesel said “that man has a good name, and I’ve known him for years… he should have refused to head the committee, because of the anti-Israel mandate under which it was established.”

“I can’t believe that Israeli soldiers murdered people or shot children. It just can’t be, and Goldstone certainly should have thought twice before taking a role in such a body,” he added.