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From: Media Watch
Iran: Helmut Kohl
agrees with Ahmadinejad on Holocaust
Mon. 06 Mar 2006
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. +++++
Iran's conference on Holocaust
denial begins on Tuesday
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. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- All views expressed herein belong to the individuals concerned and do not in any way reflect the official views of Hidayahnet unless sanctioned or approved otherwise. If your mailbox clogged with mails from Hidayahnet, you may wish to get a daily digest of emails by logging-on to http://www.yahoogroups.com to change your mail delivery settings or email the moderators at [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the title "change to daily digest".
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