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Parroting the line of the "monkey," Ali Akbar Mohtashamipour, a former interior minister and
one of the founders of Lebanese Hizbullah, told the gathering, "All the studies and research carried out
so far have proven that there is no reason to believe that the Holocaust ever occurred and that it is only
a tale."
A card-carrying psychopath, Austrian Wolfgang Froehlich, who served a two-year jail sentence
in his home country for denying the Holocaust, handed out the text of his speech to participants.
Apparently, he did not relish another trip to jail, since denying the Holocaust is a crime in a number of
European countries; but it can earn one valued privileges in some Islamic lands.
A crowning comment was that of Nabil Soleiman, an adviser to the ministry of religious affairs
in Syria. "If the Holocaust ever occurred, it was a conspiracy against the Arab-Islamic world, as today
the Middle East is still suffering the consequences," he said at the event.
Mohammad Ali Ramini, an Ahmadinejad adviser, announced at the end of the gathering that he
will chair a committee to find "the truth on the genocide of Jews." And here the rest of us thought that
these bigots already had found the truth about the "myth of the Holocaust" in hand. They had been
saying so even before this landmark "scholarly" gathering took place. Why bother with another
commission to prove the proven
Serving on the committee with Ramini are Robert Faurisson, a French professor who denies the
existence of gas chambers, as well as Holocaust deniers from Syria, Switzerland, Austria, Canada, the
United States and Bahrain. Now, how could anyone expresses any reservations, much less disgust,
about the impartial work of such a distinguished international group of "scholars," sponsored by no
less that the president of the Islamic Republic of Iran
We Iranians denounce this circus of hate and fraud that sullies the reputation of our nation. We
hold the betrayers of our heritage of friendship and respect for all people accountable for their crimes
against us, and against all humans who are affronted by the shameless actions of the propagators of
hate.
We, free Iranians, express our deepest sympathy with the Jewish people for what they have
suffered at the hands of the Nazis; and we condemn, in the strongest terms, the new coalition of
fascists who are gathering under the disgusting and dangerous banner of Islamofascism.
Sheva7 14 Dec; 2006
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/article.php3id=6770
SICK PHENOMENON
Holocaust deniers gather in Iran for 'scientific' conference
Robert Tait in Tehran
An international cast of established Holocaust deniers and implacable foes of Israel were given an
open forum by Iran yesterday to support Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's contention that the murder of six
million Jews by the Nazis was a "myth".
The foreign ministry opened a two-day conference, Review of the Holocaust: Global Vision -
which senior officials portrayed as scientific scholarship but which Ehud Olmert, Israel's prime minister,
denounced as a "sick phenomenon". Visiting Berlin, Mr Olmert urged Germany to sever diplomatic ties
with Iran.
ran's foreign minister, Manouchehr Mottaki, insisted the event was necessary to counter an
alleged lack of free speech in the west about the Holocaust, which Iranian officials argue is used to
justify Israel's oppression of the Palestinians.
"Today people who claim to be against Nazism have a record of colonialism and racism," he said.
"The objective for organising this conference is to create an atmosphere to raise various opinions about
a historical issue. We are not seeking to deny or prove the Holocaust."
But pretensions to scholastic objectivity were undermined by the background of some among
the 67 foreign visitors from 30 countries, including Britain. They included David Duke, a former imperial
wizard of the Ku Klux Klan; Robert Faurisson, a French lecturer stripped of his academic tenure for his
anti-Holocaust opinions; and Michele Renouf, a London-based associate of the British author David
Irving. Irving is currently serving a jail sentence for Holocaust denial in Austria.
A group of radical anti-Zionist rabbis, Jews United Against Israel, who oppose a Jewish state on
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