Want to check your facts, Pres. Ahmadinejad?

I'm one of those people that loves to check facts, so when the Iranian president said that Iran has been around for 10,000 years, I just wondered if this was true. And so I checked a 1900 world map, and sure enough, he was right: There was no Israel. But there was also no Iran, Iraq, or Palestine. Actually, the map I saw had no Afghanistan or Libya, either. It seems that these counties, and their boundaries, were made after WWI or even later. But don't worry about being a liar when you're in this country. We have a party in this country that refuses to tell the truth and wants to get rid of all those who disagree with them. They may not be comfortable with you, but you do seem to have a lot in common. They don't want to check their facts, either, but are you sure you don't want to?