TEHRAN, Jan. 14 (Xinhuanet) -- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad here Saturday slammed Western supports for the violent and bloody activities of "certain anti-Islamic regime", defending his anti-Israel remarks.

    "Some western countries have long been supporting certain anti-Islamic regime. They provide the regime even with ammunition so that it can do bloody crimes against Islamic countries,"Ahmadinejad told reporters at a press conference.

    "The regime has been opposing Iran and the Islamic world, but now, when we are against their criminal behaviors, they (the western countries) are criticizing us," Ahmadinejad said.

    The Iranian president said last October that Israel "should be wiped off the map" and denied the Holocaust in December, saying that Israel should be moved to Europe or Alaska, which has incurred world wide condemnation.

    Tehran has said that Ahmadinejad's remarks had been distorted and misinterpreted by the Western countries.

    Iran holds a sympathetic attitude toward the fight for independence of the Palestinians and refuses to acknowledge the Israeli state while Israel echoes the United States' accusation that Iran is building nuclear weapons secretly and sponsoring terrorists. Enditem