How ironic that these are the same folks who, in their support for U.N. control of the root zone, claim to fear that the U.S. will unilaterally delete .IR. Under United States-ICANN management, no TLD been "wiped off the map." Meanwhile, the Iranian President aspires to genocide while complaining about root zone management.

New York Times: TEHRAN, Oct. 28 - The president of Iran stood by his earlier call to "wipe Israel off the map" on Friday, while other Iranian officials played it down and some commentators here suggested it was a sign of what they considered his amateurism. The president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, was cheered by thousands of supporters during an anti-Israel rally in Tehran on Friday. "My words are the Iranian nation's words," he said of his statement, which was widely condemned around the world, the Iranian news agency IRNA quoted him as saying. "Westerners are free to comment, but their reaction is invalid."

Update: The headline was intended as irony. I wasn't suggesting that ICANN, or anyone else, seriously delete a ccTLD.