Related: US not to back Israel's call for expelling Iran from UN

    JERUSALEM, Oct. 27 (Xinhuanet) -- Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said on Thursday that Iran should be kicked out of the United Nations after its president called for Israel's destruction.

    "A country that calls for the destruction of another people cannot be a member of the United Nations," Sharon's office quoted him as saying during talks with visiting Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.

    Sharon's comments echoed a similar call made earlier by his vice premier, Shimon Peres.

    Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Wednesday that Israel would be "wiped off the map". Enditem