Holocaust: Helmut Kohl agrees with Ahmadinejad on Holocaust

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Subject: Holocaust: Helmut Kohl agrees with Ahmadinejad on Holocaust
Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2006 14:51:06 +0300
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Iran: Helmut Kohl agrees with Ahmadinejad on Holocaust
http://www.iranfocus.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=6085
Mon. 06 Mar 2006

Tehran, Iran, Mar. 06 – Former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl reportedly
told Iranian businessmen in Germany that he agreed with statements by
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad that the Holocaust was a " myth",
the semi-official Jomhouri Islami reported on Monday.

The government-owned daily wrote that at a dinner gala with Iranian
hoteliers and entrepreneurs, Kohl said that he "heartily agreed" with
Ahmadinejad's remarks about the Holocaust.

"What Ahmadinejad said about the Holocaust was in our bosoms", the
former German chancellor was quoted as saying. "For years we wanted to
say this, but we did not have the courage to speak out".

Ahmadinejad caused an international furore last year when he publicly
declared that the Holocaust was a "myth" and threatened that Israel must
be "wiped off the map".

His comments were supported by senior Iranian officials, including
Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and former president Ayatollah Ali
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani.

The country's state-run media have systematically defended the position
of the Iranian president and given extensive coverage to historians and
"experts" who deny the Holocaust took place.
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Iran's conference on Holocaust denial begins on Tuesday
http://www.iranfocus.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=6081

 Tehran, Iran, Mar. 05 – Iran will host a conference on the Holocaust in
Tehran on Tuesday, the state-run news agency Mehr reported on Sunday.

The seminar, dubbed "The Holocaust: myth or reality?", has been
organised by the Bassij, a branch of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards
Corps, the report said.

Several "anti-Zionist Jewish rabbis are in Tehran to take part in the
conference", the news agency added.

Iran's hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad caused an international
furore last year when he publicly declared that the Holocaust was a
"myth" and threatened that Israel must be "wiped off the map".

His comments were supported by senior Iranian officials, including
Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and former president Ayatollah Ali
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani.

Ahmadinejad has been making a series of speeches, describing the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict as "the central front in the war of Islam
and Global Arrogance", a reference to the West.

The radical president has been calling on Islamic nations and Muslims to
unite to defeat the West in a jihad, or holy war.

The country's state-run media have given extensive coverage to
historians and "experts" who deny the Holocaust took place.

In its Wednesday edition, the hard-line daily Kayhan, which reflects the
views of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah, gave prominence to a new book,
the latest in some 300 anti-Semitic books in Persian that adorn Tehran's
bookshops.

In addition to daily articles and commentaries in the government-owned
press denying the Holocaust, the chairman of Iran's cartoonists
association, Masoud Shojai, set up a website, www.irancartoon.com, to
put on display drawings and cartoons ridiculing the Holocaust.


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