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Iran
Focus
 Tehran, Iran, Feb. 08 – The
Holocaust was nothing more than a “big lie”, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary
Guards Corps (IRGC) have said, backing up statements by hard-line Iranian
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
who described the great massacre in which more than six million mostly Jewish
people were killed as a “myth”.
The spokesman for the IRGC, Brigadier General Massoud
Jazayeri, told the state-owned Persian-language
website Hemaseh that recent cartoons in the
European press depicting the Islamic prophet Mohammad negatively were
published to create havoc to cover up such “lies”.
“These sorts of actions show [the West’s] weakness when up against Islam”, Jazayeri said, commenting on the cartoons which have
sparked a wave of deadly protests across much of the world.
“With such uproar, they are trying to create an atmosphere where the words
‘right’ and ‘reality’ disappear, and considerable issues such as the
Zionists’ and West’s big lie about the Holocaust are forgotten”, he said.
The United Nations Security Council has twice censured Revolutionary Guards
commander-turned-President Ahmadinejad for denying
the Holocaust and calling for Israel to be “wiped off the map”.
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