Iranian leader denies Holocaust

[emilyg]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4527142.stm

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has courted further controversy by explicitly calling the Nazi Holocaust of European Jewry a "myth".
"They have created a myth today that they call the massacre of Jews and they consider it a principle above God, religions and the prophets," he said.

On live TV, he called for Europe or North America - even Alaska - to host a Jewish state, not the Middle East.

Israel swiftly denounced the president's comments.

"We hope these extremist comments... will make the international community open its eyes and abandon any illusions about this regime," foreign ministry spokesman Mark Regev told AFP news agency.

Mr Ahmadinejad's latest declaration echoes comments he made last week, in which he said territory should be "provided" in Germany or Austria to establish Israel "if European countries claim that they have killed Jews in World War II".

[B o d i]

1. old

really old

[Renew Deal]

2. Ahmadinejad wants Sarah Palin to be the head of a new Israel?

Now that's crazy.

The holocaust denial is just unbelievable. What a scumbag.

[geek tragedy]

3. December 14, 2005, but fuckit let's bomb anyways.

:sarcasm:

[emilyg]

4. My bad - it was on BBC's front page.