Does Iran’s President deny the Holocaust?
“The German government condemned the repetitive offending anti-Israel statements by Ahmadinejad to be shocking. Such behaviour is not tolerable, Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier stated. […] Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel proclaimed Ahmadinejad’s statements to be ‘inconceivable’” (published by tagesschau.de 2005-12-14. But not only the German Foreign Minister Steinmeier and the Federal Chancellor Merkel allege this, but the Bild-Zeitung, tagesschau.de, parts of the peace movement, US-President George W. Bush, the ‘Papers for German and international politics’, CNN, the Heinrich-Böll-Foundation, almost the entire world does so, too: Iran’s President Ahmadinejad denies the Holocaust. What is this assertion based on? In substance it is based on dispatches of 2 days – 2005-12-14 and 2006-02-11. “The Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has stepped up his verbal attacks against Israel and the Western states and has denied the Holocaust. Instead of making Israel’s attacks against
