40 institutes boycott Iran think tank over Holocaust conference

[Behind the Aegis]

PARIS - Nearly 40 European and North American research institutes will suspend contacts with a leading Iranian think tank that helped organize last week's conference in Tehran of Holocaust deniers, a Paris-based researcher said Saturday.

The institutes, from Warsaw to Washington and beyond, have agreed to suspend ongoing programs with the Iranian Institute for Political and International Studies, or IPIS, according to a statement issued by Francois Heisbourg, who organized the boycott.

They have also refused participation in IPIS meetings or invite IPIS staff to their own forums and to decline travel to Iran sponsored by the Iranian institute.

The December 11-12 conference in Tehran drew Holocaust deniers from around the world to debate whether the World War II genocide of Jews took place. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, a keynote speaker, said that Israel will one day be "wiped out" and "humanity will achieve freedom."


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[William769]

1. Well when you say or do something stupid (like our pResident) does all the time.

You ought to expect this.

[bemildred]

2. Good, boycotts can be very effective. nt

[Purveyor]

3. I'm sure Iran will be devasted over this announcement. NOT! n/t

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[martymar64]

5. Holcaust deniers are today's Flat-Earthers

Of course it happened. Somewhere in the world, it's happening to some other group of people, i.e. Darfur. It recently happened in Rwanda. It's happened in most parts of the world, especially since WW2. Trying to deny or act as an apologist for it in any of it's forms is simply ludicrous. It flies in the face of any serious rationality.
Whatever beef they have with Israel today should be settled on its own terms, without resorting to such idiotic claims about well-documented recent history.
Ahmedinajad is pretty much a grade A butthole that destroys Iran's diplomatic credibility by talking shit at the drop of a hat, much like our boy king.

How do you say "I'm the Decider!" in Farsi?