Maybe when Barack Obama sits down for tea with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in Tehran, he can ask the mini-dictator about this little faux pas: Ahmadinejad: Israel is a ‘stinking corpse’ doomed to disappear.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Thursday called Israel a “stinking corpse” which is doomed to disappear, as the state celebrated 60 years of independence.

“Those who think they can revive the stinking corpse of the usurping and fake Israeli regime by throwing a birthday party are seriously mistaken,” Ahmadinejad was quoted as saying by the official IRNA news agency.