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Iran launches book to back Holocaust denial stance
2006-03-02
Tehran, Iran, Mar. 01 – A government agency in Iran has launched a new book that sets out to prove the official position that the Holocaust was a “myth” and a “historical lie” that was concocted to justify the creation of a Jewish state in Palestine. “The Place of Holocaust in the Zionist Project – Fact or Myth?” is the name of the new book published by the Islamic Revolution’s Documents Centre, a government agency headed by hard-line cleric Ruhollah Hosseinian. It is written by a little known author called Seyyed Mehdi Tarahi.

In its Wednesday edition, the hard-line daily Kayhan, which reflects the views of IranÂ’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, gave prominence to the new book, the latest in some 300 anti-Semitic books in Persian that adorn TehranÂ’s bookshops.
Never mind his denial elsewhere in the 'Burg today.
The daily quoted several passages from the book’s introduction, including this one: “When at the end of the Second World War, the world saw macabre scenes of prisoners of war camps with heaps of corpses of POWs who had died of typhoid, Zionist circles began to spread rumours that the Jews had been exterminated by Nazis using special weapons called gas chambers. Thus a new phenomenon called the Holocaust, or the massacre of the Jews, came into being”.

The book, according to Kayhan, studies the “myth of Holocaust and the role it has played in cementing the political and economic basis of Israel”.

Iran’s state-run newspapers have given widespread coverage to allegations by Holocaust deniers who dispute the genocide of the Jews by Nazi Germany after hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad claimed that the Holocaust was a “myth” and threatened that Israel must be “wiped off the map”. 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.

Iran’s Foreign Ministry has announced plans to hold an anti-Holocaust conference in spring of this year to discuss “unresolved questions” about the Holocaust.
Posted by:Steve White

#15   It was really an asteroid strike that left that massive glowing green sand in what used to be Persia.

If so, I predict it will turn out to have had a very unusual trajectory. Pretty elliptical, in fact.
Posted by: lotp   2006-03-02 19:50  

#14  Heh, ex-lib. And we can drill through glass.
Posted by: .com   2006-03-02 19:00  

#13  I can write a book.
Posted by: ex-lib   2006-03-02 13:39  

#12  The Islamist's preoccupation with denying the Holocaust, whilst simultaneously wanting to "finish the job Hitler began", is much like their arguments that "America flew passenger jetliners into their own skyscrapers to start a war on Islam, and they deserved it for meddling in the Middle East."

Islam cannot have it both ways. They continue to want it so and all it really indicates is that if another holocaust is in the books, it will be a Muslim holocaust. Yes, this concept seems to resonate with Hitler's own final solution, save for one vital and simple reason.

During WWII, the Jews did not seek the demise of any nation or people. They merely sought peaceful coexistence so that they could go on with their lives.

Quite to the contrary, todays Islamists seek, not just Semitic genocide, but the death of all who oppose global sharia law as their own "final solution." Confronted with this, at some point it will become less costly to exterminate all Muslims than to put up with their constant atrocities. In this more modern world, those who aggressively seek a "final solution" will more likely be incinerated for their pursuit of same. If there is a "final solution" it will be one that forever solves the problem of Muslim intransigence and intolerance for all other religions. By seeking to revise history for their own genocidal ends, Islam is signing its death warrant.
Posted by: Zenster   2006-03-02 12:30  

#11  The far left in the U.S./Europe tends toward postmodern interpretations of history: there are no TRUTHS, only competing discourses. If one accepts this viewpoint, the Iranians will indeed have a willing readership not entirely composed of neo-nazi nut cases...
Posted by: borgboy   2006-03-02 10:35  

#10  To respond to 2b, apologies for being off topic, Being a former member of the British Conservative Party, with its bloodline and ancestry in the English Aristocracy, in turn descended from the Norman Pillagers and Robbers who enscounced themselves and the Divine of Right Kings and Monarchs to rule over the Peasants. It's not nothing that the unofficial title of the British Conservative Party is "The Natural Ruling Party". Breeding counts, you see. The goal of the British Conservative Party, for most of its history, is to rule, so that 'others' cannot govern or change anything. Essentially a program for stasis. A book by Will Hutton "The State We're In" explains more clearly.

Essentially is not a lie to state from a British perspective that the British Conservative Party is the party of the rich. Merely a reasonable statement supported by history.

Anyway I was merely using the Conservative Party as an element in an 'Argument by Analogy' to illuminate why some not-very-nice-people have a program of Holocaust Denial in the FIRST PLACE.

Wood for the Trees. Me Thinks.
Posted by: Albion4Yisrael   2006-03-02 10:13  

#9  Huge sales in Europe.
Posted by: gromgoru   2006-03-02 10:02  

#8  We'll have a book in ten years which will show the 'Iranian' Holocaust never happened. It was really an asteroid strike that left that massive glowing green sand in what used to be Persia.
Posted by: Grererong Thromoger7008   2006-03-02 09:08  

#7  It doesn't help the cause of remembering the Holocaust to use lies to make your case.
Posted by: 2b   2006-03-02 08:13  

#6  traditionally Conservative/Republicans tax the poor and pay the rich

It doesn't help the cause of remembering the Holocaust to us lies to make your case.
Posted by: 2b   2006-03-02 08:12  

#5  Holocaust Denial is the insult to the Injury of the Holocaust. Holocaust Denial functions as an attempt to make Murderous (Extremist) political parties elegible for Public Office: You judge a politcal party on the basis of its record: traditionally Conservative/Republicans tax the poor and pay the rich; while the Liberals/Labour tax the rich and pay the poor; while the Nazi's and the Facists murder who they don't like. With a political record of being killers and murderers it is obvious that the Nazi's and the Facists are unelectable unless they can deny the Holocaust.
Posted by: Albion4Yisrael   2006-03-02 07:09  

#4  Next they'll be denying their race was created from impure pre-germanic invaders mixing with the locals.
Posted by: Skidmark   2006-03-02 05:41  

#3  BOY HOWDY these persians are obsessed with Jews!!!

Makes ya wonder!

Jealousy? Envy?
Posted by: PlanetDan   2006-03-02 05:25  

#2  "And the world is flat I tell you"!!!
Posted by: 49 Pan   2006-03-02 03:03  

#1  Well, if it's in a book then it must be true!
Posted by: .com   2006-03-02 02:38  

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