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this made me feel sick to my stomach. I realize that it is more about getting under Israel's skin than anything else, but the very idea makes me shudder...




Iran Defends Planned Holocaust Conference





By ALI AKBAR DAREINI, Associated Press Writer


Iran on Tuesday defended its plan to organize a conference to examine what it terms the scientific evidence for the Holocaust.


At the United Nations, the Israeli ambassador said the conference plans were proof that Iran was run by an "extreme, fundamentalist, lunatic regime."


The planned conference, which has drawn condemnation from Western leaders, is yet another step in hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's public campaign against Israel.


"For over half a century, those who seek to prove the Holocaust have used every podium to defend their position. Now they should listen to others," Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman, Hamid Reza Asefi, was quoted as saying Tuesday by the official Islamic Republic News Agency.


Ahmadinejad already had called the Nazis' World War II slaughter of 6 million European Jews a "myth" and said the Jewish state should be "wiped off the map."


Dan Gillerman, Israel's ambassador to the United Nations, said the planned conference was "proof of what a global threat Iran really is."


"I fear that the only reason Iran is showing so much interest in the Holocaust is because they may be preparing another Holocaust and it is up to the world and the United Nations to prevent that from happening," Gillerman told The Associated Press on the sidelines of the opening of the "No Child's Play" exhibit at the U.N. commemorating Holocaust remembrance week.


IRNA quoted Asefi as saying: that "blind prejudice together with political interests and aims have closed the eyes of the Holocaust defenders to the realities of the world, and they reject without any logic a scientific conference."


Iran's Foreign Ministry, which was expected to sponsor the conference, has yet to fix a date or place. It was not clear who might attend.


"Iran is proving yet again what an extreme, fundamentalist, lunatic regime it is," Gillerman said.


Ahmadinejad has been issuing the highly inflammatory comments about Israel and the Holocaust in conjunction with the country's deepening confrontation with the West over its nuclear activities. The United States and its allies accuse Iran of seeking nuclear weapons. Tehran says the program is its right under the Nonproliferation Treaty and is designed for electricity generation.


Russia's national security chief and Iran's top nuclear negotiator said Tuesday that the nuclear standoff must be resolved by diplomatic efforts in the U.N. atomic watchdog agency.


The Kremlin statement reflected Russia's efforts to delay Iran's referral to the U.N. Security Council and Moscow's opposition to international sanctions against Tehran.


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Associated Press Writer Tracee Herbaugh contributed to this report from the United Nations.


 



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People really hate Israel. It's an extreme pov and a highly hostile pov but I think it's just in response to the hatred of the state of Israel, not Jews or support of a holocaust or whatever else. It's sad but not altogether unexpected.

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Ahmadinejad is crazy on so many levels.  This guy really, really scares me.  There was a great article on him and the nuclear program iin last week's Newsweek (the one with Bode Miller on the cover) that also mentioned how he has stated that the holocaust never happened and that Israel should be wiped off the map and he hopes Sharon dies (I read a good article comparing him and Pat Robertson).  Statements like this are terrifying, especially when combined with the reopening of Iran's nuclear program.  Other reasons why Iran and Ahmadinejad are terrifying:



  • Americans who were held hostage in the US embassy after the Islamic revolution say that Ahmadinejad was one of the captors (the Iran hostage crisis).  He had also suggested a similar attempt against the Soviet Union embassy
  • Iran's outgoing president had barred Ahmadinejad from cabinet meetings
  • Ahmadinejad has refused to stop uranium conversion
  • The Iranian government is blaming the Ahvaz bombings on Britian, stating that the separatists responsible for the bombings have HQ's in London and are supported by the British government.  "The bombers are directed by the British. Britain is the main culprit behind the blasts. The British Government offers financial and material support to these terrorists." 
  • And from Wikipedia (just a portion but the whole entry is really interesting): 

    Ahmadinejad was the only presidential candidate who spoke out against future relations with the United States. Also, in an interview with Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting a few days before the elections, Ahmadinejad accused the United Nations of being "one-sided, stacked against the world of Islam." He has openly opposed the veto power given to the five permanent members of the UN Security Council. In the same interview, he stated, "It is not just for a few states to sit and veto global approvals. Should such a privilege continue to exist, the Muslim world with a population of nearly 1.5 billion should be extended the same privilege." In addition, he has defended Iran's nuclear program and has accused "a few arrogant powers" of attempting to limit Iran's industrial and technological development in this and other fields. In a question by a Shargh journalist about the release of political prisoners in case he becomes president, Ahmadinejad answered with a question: "Which political prisoners? The political prisoners in the United States?"


Anyway, I could go on but it's pointless, considering how he's so obviously dangerous.  Here's a link to an interesting article that argues that he's not crazy, that it's all just part of a political strategy.  That's very possible, but he still scares me.


http://www.tompaine.com/articles/20060113/ahmadinejad_not_crazy_cunning.php



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TST - thank you for posting that. Very interesting! We had a long discussion about Ahmadinejad in my class the other day, in response to him banning CNN last week. One of my students, who's extremely well-versed in foreign news/world events, said "he's one scary dude."

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halleybird wrote:
TST - thank you for posting that. Very interesting! We had a long discussion about Ahmadinejad in my class the other day, in response to him banning CNN last week. One of my students, who's extremely well-versed in foreign news/world events, said "he's one scary dude."


I agree. Has anyone seen Syriana? It's interesting what roles the U.S. plays/played in getting certain leaders in power in the Middle East.

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