Monday, September 30, 2013

Iran Flip-Flops on Holocaust Denial says "Genocide? Yeah Pretty Much"

It seems that the denial was "lost in translation."

Iran’s foreign minister insisted on Sunday that his country does not deny the historical reality of the Holocaust, which he called “a heinous crime,” and “a genocide,” which “must never be allowed to be repeated.”

Near the end of an interview with ABC News that was otherwise concerned with negotiations over Iran’s nuclear program and the prospect of improved relations with the United States, Iran’s chief diplomat, Mohammad Javad Zarif, was challenged on his claim during a Twitter conversation about the Holocaust last month that “Iran never denied it.” He argued that a statement calling the Holocaust a “myth” still posted on the English-language Web site of Iran’s leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was poorly translated from Persian.

Well it seems that rational people are at the top posts in Iran. Hmm, we might get a more peaceful world out of all this after all.

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