Iran tells West to be tolerant of Holocaust views

[Violet_Crumble]

note: posting it here as I figure it'll get moved here anyway if I post it upstairs

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's denial of the Holocaust is a matter for academic discussion and the West should be more tolerant of his views, Iran's foreign ministry spokesman said on Sunday.

Ahmadinejad last week called the Holocaust a myth and suggested Israel be moved to Germany or Alaska, remarks that sparked international uproar and threaten diplomatic talks with Europe over Iran's nuclear programme.

Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi defended the president's remarks, which also drew a rebuke from the U.N. Security Council.

"What the president said is an academic issue. The West's reaction shows their continued support for Zionists," Asefi told a weekly news conference.

"Westerners are used to leading a monologue but they should learn to listen to different views," he added.

http://today.reuters.com/News/newsArticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2005-12-18T102039Z_01_FLE836834_RTRUKOC_0_US-IRAN-ISRAEL.xml

[julianer]

1. Neo-nazis also

try to claim that holocaust denial is 'an academic issue'.

The last thing we need is to give any credence to this sort of sinister revisionism wherever it comes from.

[Violet_Crumble]

4. They also try to claim it's historical revisionism...

Which it definately isn't...

Deniers in Revisionists Clothing

It's always a safe bet that the words 'should learn to listen to different views' or things like 'you should open up your mind to...' is going to be followed by something extremely ugly...

Violet...

[bananas]

7. "Iran" has same root as "Aryan"

you can really drive supremacists crazy,
tell them Iranians are the master race.

[LARED]

2. academic discussion ??????

Denial of the Holocaust is a matter for academic discussion on what planet?

[Lithos]

10. You would not believe

How often I've heard this (it's an academic discussion, or it's up to people to make their own decisions, etc.) over the years. :eyes:



L-

[TallahasseeGrannie]

3. Then let's "discuss"

where the hell all the Jews went!?

Because there are a lot missing.

[Kipling]

5. I'm really starting to think we shouldn't let this guy have nukes.

[julianer]

6. That is an entirely different issue

and it is not in your gift 'to let this guy have nukes'. According to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation treaty(signed by the US and Iran) Iran has every right to not only develop civil nuclear programmes, but has the right to practical and material help from the existing nuclear powers in doing so, so long as it foreswears military nuclear development and is willing to submit to the inspection regime. Iran has abided by the provisions of the treaty as far as is known.

It is the US and European powers that are in breach of international law on this issue, not Iran - they deny Iran help in developing nuclear programmes, they have failed to disarm their nuclear arsenals and, in fact, are developing new generations of them.

But international law now appears to be an optional extra to be used if it helps US power, otherwise it is villified.

[Coastie for Truth]

8. Is that what they teach at the "Inns of Court" M'lordship.

[Coastie for Truth]

9. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad reminds me of another head of state,

[Violet_Crumble]

11. Yeah, Idi was a nasty piece of work as well...

n/t