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Iran defends conference to examine 'scientific evidence' for Holocaust

By The Associated Press

TEHRAN - Iran defended its plan Tuesday to organize a conference to examine what it terms the scientific evidence for the Holocaust, the official Islamic Republic News Agency reported.

Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi also castigated British Prime Minister Tony Blair for criticizing the event, saying the time has come for Western leaders to hear comments not to their liking.

"For over half a century, those who seek to prove the Holocaust have used every podium to defend their position. Now they should listen to others," IRNA quoted Asefi as saying Tuesday.

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The planned conference is yet another step in hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's public campaign against Israel.

Ahmadinejad already had called the Nazis' World War II slaughter of 6 million European Jews a "myth" and said the Jewish state should be "wiped off the Map."

If the Holocaust did happen, Ahmadinejad said Israel should be moved to Germany or North America, rather than punishing the Palestinians, who lost their land in the name of what he called crimes committed by Europeans.

The call prompted strong condemnation from Western leaders. Blair has reportedly branded the planned conference "shocking" and "ridiculous."

IRNA quoted Asefi as saying: "People of the world should hear all opinions and choose the best. Such comments are an insult to the wisdom of the people around the world."

"Unfortunately, blind prejudice together with political interests and aims have closed the eyes of the Holocaust defenders to the realities of the world, and they reject without any logic a scientific conference," Asefi was quoted as saying.

On Monday, a small round-table discussion hosted by a private news agency and a pro-Palestinian non-governmental organization in Tehran examined whether the Holocaust was a lie or an exaggeration. The discussion was attended by mostly university students.

Political science professor, Ahmad Bakhshayesh, called the Holocaust a lie used by Zionists to justify creation of Israel.

Iran's Foreign Ministry, which was expected to sponsor the conference, has yet to fix a date or place. It was not clear who might attend.

Ahmadinejad has been issuing the highly inflammatory comments about Israel and the Holocaust in conjunction with the country's deepening confrontation with the West over its nuclear activities. The United States and its allies accuse Iran of seeking nuclear weapons. Tehran says the program is its right under the Nonproliferation Treaty and is designed for electricity generation.

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1.	Iran defends conference to examine `scientific evidence` for Holo	18:22	\|	B	24/01/06

2.	Let the conference happen!! LET IT!!! LET IT!!!	19:12	\|	GGB	24/01/06

3.	Holocaust Conference a Great Idea	19:15	\|	Tim Raisbeck	24/01/06

4.	Look at it objectively	19:28	\|	Tim Raisbeck	24/01/06

5.	Conference Proposal	19:28	\|	Michael	24/01/06

6.	send this ignoramus to the Holocaust Museum	19:40	\|	Paul	24/01/06

7.	iran defends	19:41	\|	Gershon Overlander	24/01/06

8.	Ahmadinejad the Anti-Christ	19:41	\|	Abdullah	24/01/06

9.	People for this conference are naive	20:01	\|	McQueen	24/01/06

10.	"Scientific findings" tool of Holocaust Denial	20:11	\|	Paul Freedman	24/01/06

11.	Freedom of Speech	20:53	\|	Pilin Pingon	24/01/06

12.	Paul Freedman`s post	20:58	\|	Shoshi	24/01/06

13.	#2 Tim	21:19	\|	Eli	24/01/06

14.	News for "Haaretz" ? Gideon Levy and Amira Hass have	21:24	\|	m.	24/01/06

15.	Iran, what a shame.	21:33	\|	Glenn S.	24/01/06

16.	the First Amendment	21:42	\|	Paul	24/01/06

17.	special session for the conference	21:55	\|	Leon Rosgarten	24/01/06

18.	jewish holocaust monopoly	22:02	\|	maverick	24/01/06

19.	#12--thank you, irrefutable	22:10	\|	Paul Freedman	24/01/06

20.	iranian president	22:15	\|	a	24/01/06

21.	Holocaust denial	22:27	\|	Bill	24/01/06

22.	Poor Leon, not invited to the hate conference	22:36	\|	Jacob Blues	24/01/06

23.	#18--more than one and a half million, also not the point	22:37	\|	Paul Freedman	24/01/06

24.	Apparently Mavrick missed the premise of the conference	22:39	\|	Jacob Blues	24/01/06

25.	Iran`s denyiny of Holocust	22:40	\|	David Ely	24/01/06

26.	Let him talk	22:45	\|	Porges	24/01/06

27.	#13 Eli	23:12	\|	Tim Raisbeck	24/01/06

28.	18-Jewish Holocaust Monopoly	23:28	\|	Adam	24/01/06

29.	Jacob look in the mirror, you see a hypocrite.	23:41	\|	maverick	24/01/06

30.	Darwin and Ahdgimadgad or whatever	23:48	\|	Danite	24/01/06

31.	No Hypocrisy Maverick just honesty	00:06	\|	Jacob Blues	25/01/06

32.	Dangerous Idiots are ruling Iran	00:17	\|	Zak	25/01/06

33.	#30--H-bomb prophecies come true	00:28	\|	Paul Freedman	25/01/06

34.	Jewish holocaust monoply	00:29	\|	danny	25/01/06

35.	#8 Abdullah Guidence System	00:42	\|	Jacob	25/01/06

36.	Iran	00:46	\|	Harris	25/01/06

37.	Re: Pili	00:47	\|	Gadi	25/01/06

38.	#16, Paul	00:50	\|	Claudia	25/01/06

39.	Prof. Rosgarten - suggestions for invited speakers	00:54	\|	Orquest	25/01/06

40.	The Iran-Iraq war never happened	01:04	\|	Dan	25/01/06

41.	Bill- The agenda behind revisionism	01:09	\|	Stephen Duke	25/01/06

42.	Proposed Iranian conference on Holocaust	01:58	\|	Jim	25/01/06

43.	Iranian conference	02:35	\|	Massoud	25/01/06

44.	Claudia # 38	02:38	\|	Ben	25/01/06

45.	About Prof. Rosgarten	10:21	\|	LBNAZ	25/01/06

46.	To # 6 I agree	10:25	\|	Nicole	25/01/06

47.	To any Palestinian voting for Hamas	10:27	\|	LBNAZ	25/01/06

48.	TO LEON ROSGARTON	10:29	\|	Nicole	25/01/06

49.	WHAT ABOUT A CONFERENCE TO DISCUSS IRANIANS ARE ARABS	10:35	\|	Nicole	25/01/06

50.	IGNORANT IRANIANS - NOSEY NEIGHBOURS	10:41	\|	Nicole	25/01/06

51.	Gratuitous insult to humanity from fascist Iran President.	10:45	\|	bruce	25/01/06

52.	# 34 To Danny	10:55	\|	Nicole	25/01/06

53.	Iran defends conference to examine `scientific evidence` for Holo	11:28	\|	RH	25/01/06

54.	There is no legitimate historical `question` here	11:56	\|	Shalom Freedman	25/01/06

55.	Who is afraid of scientific conference?	12:44	\|	E Klein	25/01/06

56.	It`s a good thing	12:44	\|	a Moslem	25/01/06

57.	Iran 20%unemployment,30% drop stocks,addict capital of the world.	13:05	\|	PETER SM	25/01/06

58.	Tim # 3, 4	15:16	\|	Kfir	25/01/06

59.	prove the holocaust did happen	15:17	\|	f g yarn	25/01/06

60.	Return to Europe?	15:17	\|	Solomon	25/01/06

61.	Islamic hatred	15:20	\|	Beverly	25/01/06

62.	iran	15:21	\|	MICHEL	25/01/06

63.	A Palestinian Exodus	15:29	\|	Solomon	25/01/06

64.	Conference	15:30	\|	Shlomo	25/01/06

65.	#48 Nicole	15:42	\|	Yonatan	25/01/06

66.	The Germans Themselves Do Not Deny The Holocaust	15:42	\|	Mike	25/01/06

67.	#60 Return to Europe 2	15:52	\|	Simon	25/01/06

68.	And this is a nationa that claims it has scientific knowledge?	15:53	\|	Yaakov Sullivan	25/01/06

69.	Pan Arab Moslem Goodwill	15:58	\|	Solomon	25/01/06

70.	maverick	16:03	\|	SHIMON	25/01/06

71.	Frantzen are you an invited Guest?	16:17	\|	KJJ	25/01/06

72.	#65 Deny??? Q is to examine scientific evidence	16:17	\|	Sarah	25/01/06

73.	Orquest are you crazy? #39	16:22	\|	Danite	25/01/06

74.	let them do it	16:23	\|	afilu	25/01/06

75.	NO KJJ	16:51	\|	Danite	25/01/06

76.	Mike , what you dont understand	16:53	\|	Danite	25/01/06

77.	Arguing against the conference just lends credibility	17:08	\|	Mark Lincoln	25/01/06

78.	Iran trying to learn how to commit proper genocide	17:43	\|	Cipora Julianna Kohn	25/01/06

79.	Talk, Talk, Talk...anyone has anything smart to say?	17:44	\|	Maimon	25/01/06

80.	#65 To Yonatan	17:45	\|	Nicole	25/01/06

81.	Iran	17:50	\|	Gemma	25/01/06

82.	The true face of Iran	18:03	\|	Sarah	25/01/06

83.	declining auschwitz figures	18:39	\|	menachem korn	25/01/06

84.	Sorry Mark Lincoln, but you are wrong this time	18:47	\|	Jacob Blues	25/01/06

85.	Its high time	18:59	\|	thr	25/01/06

86.	Iranians like Zionists deny the abvious	19:19	\|	El-Birawi	25/01/06

87.	Sarah #72 What are you talking about?	19:23	\|	Ezreal	25/01/06

88.	why do we deny the armenian holocaust?	19:23	\|	igco	25/01/06

89.	Condemned Before Trial - Iranian Style Justice	19:27	\|	Lavi	25/01/06

90.	Holocaust denial	19:38	\|	Margaret	25/01/06

91.	# 90 to Margaret	19:45	\|	Nicole	25/01/06

92.	It is not craziness; Danite #73	19:49	\|	Ben Gurion	25/01/06

93.	to El-Birawi	19:50	\|	Gemma	25/01/06

94.	One good result of the conference	19:54	\|	Ben Gurion	25/01/06

95.	El-Birawi - on denying the existance of the other side	20:00	\|	Orquest	25/01/06

96.	to #93	20:10	\|	igco	25/01/06

97.	I`,m not that Sarah	20:10	\|	Sarah	25/01/06

98.	The problem with the conference	20:17	\|	Ari ben Tzevi	25/01/06

99.	Danite - a sense of humor is needed here.	20:34	\|	Orquest	25/01/06

100.	Ben Gurion Shalom	20:39	\|	Danite	25/01/06

101.	Do the math - we really need a scientific conference!	20:43	\|	Sarah	25/01/06

102.	Ben Gurion #2	20:44	\|	Danite	25/01/06

103.	To igco	20:45	\|	Gemma	25/01/06

104.	Planting and Spreading New AntiSemitism	20:48	\|	Solomon	25/01/06

105.	no use crying	20:48	\|	Sarah	25/01/06

106.	who will knock out the madmen first ousiders or insiders	21:12	\|	alleihom	25/01/06

107.	Why not a scientific conference?	21:20	\|	Ibn Gurion	25/01/06

108.	Double standard	21:45	\|	W	25/01/06

109.	Boycott Iran	21:52	\|	Paul Henzen	25/01/06

110.	re #95 on zionist denial of palestinians	22:03	\|	menachem korn	25/01/06

111.	Orquest #95	22:09	\|	Veritas	25/01/06

112.	Commrade Professor L Rosegarten.A Psychiatrist has to be invited.	22:12	\|	PETER SM	25/01/06

113.	Veritas	22:30	\|	Orquest	25/01/06

114.	Orquest	22:42	\|	Danite	25/01/06

115.	re #111 not all jews are zionists	22:45	\|	menachem korn	25/01/06

116.	#100, and the stories about Arab mythologies	22:56	\|	Cipora Julianna Kohn	25/01/06

117.	Dr. Ahmadinejad - Don`t You Have Any Work To Do?	23:03	\|	Lavi	25/01/06

118.	iranian holocaust conference	23:09	\|	mark mandel	25/01/06

119.	Iranian leader	23:12	\|	PJ	25/01/06

120.	Not much Ve, Re, or Tas for that matter	23:25	\|	Jacob Blues	25/01/06

121.	Mr. Korn provides examples to Veritas extremism	23:29	\|	Jacob Blues	25/01/06

122.	More important than the Iranian conference is March 6	23:33	\|	Jacob Blues	25/01/06

123.	#116 and arab "mythologies"	23:38	\|	menachem korn	25/01/06

124.	Orquest #113	23:38	\|	Veritas	25/01/06

125.	#28 OK ,get it on!	23:40	\|	hollingsworth	25/01/06

126.	PJ, 119, very true	23:43	\|	Cipora Julianna Kohn	25/01/06

127.	menachem kom #115	23:43	\|	Veritas	25/01/06

128.	Iranian Holocaust conference- perspective	23:47	\|	Craig Brodian	25/01/06

129.	#83 simple artithmetic	23:50	\|	hollingsworth	25/01/06

130.	re: 100	23:58	\|	andrew r	25/01/06

131.	Holingsworth worth a worm	00:01	\|	silent so far	26/01/06

132.	Mr. Korn provides more fringe	00:09	\|	Jacob Blues	26/01/06

133.	HOLIGSWORTH Keep talking.	00:28	\|	PETER SM	26/01/06

134.	How many died from disease	00:40	\|	Sylvia Raphael	26/01/06

135.	Veritas - opportunistic reasons	00:42	\|	Orquest	26/01/06

136.	hollingsworth	00:44	\|	menachem korn	26/01/06

137.	Jacob the Liar	00:50	\|	menachem korn	26/01/06

138.	No Honesty here. Hollingworth #129 and Menachem#83	01:06	\|	Ezreal	26/01/06

139.	I think you are all missing the point	01:37	\|	Ben Rafael	26/01/06

140.	menachem korn and Hollingworth-you are pathetic liars	01:46	\|	Daniel Leopold	26/01/06

141.	#137	01:49	\|	menachem korn	26/01/06

142.	#139	01:54	\|	menachem korn	26/01/06

143.	1.1 million is still too much	01:54	\|	Sylvia Raphael	26/01/06

144.	Menachem Korn-#137-you can`t take us for fools?	02:16	\|	Daniel Leopold	26/01/06

145.	Iranian Holocaust Deniers	02:24	\|	Schlocky	26/01/06

146.	to 139	02:37	\|	wanttoknow	26/01/06

147.	To Sara who is denying the holocaust	02:37	\|	Sylvia Raphael	26/01/06

148.	DENYING HOLOCAUST IS A CRIME,BUT DENYING ISRAEL ISN`T	03:09	\|	MUSLIM ANGEL~~	26/01/06

149.	ALL DENIARS ARE PSYCHOS	03:14	\|	MUSLIM ANGEL~~	26/01/06

150.	freedom of speach	03:21	\|	stan catts	26/01/06

151.	#144	03:24	\|	menachem korn	26/01/06

152.	Iran -Iraqi war never happened	03:28	\|	stan catts	26/01/06

153.	to Menachem Korn	03:41	\|	hollingsworth	26/01/06

154.	Once there was an angel....	04:11	\|	Ronnie Wolman	26/01/06

155.	This conference is long overdue	04:43	\|	Sue Slackwell	26/01/06

156.	Allow Dialogue	04:59	\|	John	26/01/06

157.	jacob blues 31	05:19	\|	potobac	26/01/06

158.	#72 Sarah: "The Scientific Method"	06:10	\|	Bloomfield	26/01/06

159.	Muslim Angel, learn the facts and the rules of spelling	07:53	\|	fiona	26/01/06

160.	response to everone	09:29	\|	michael	26/01/06

161.	Explainig the holocaust	09:38	\|	Edith	26/01/06

162.	Iran Defends Conference to examine Holocaust	14:18	\|	Paul Bradford	26/01/06

163.	155Sue Slackwell Sorry to rain on your parade.	14:53	\|	Ezreal	26/01/06

164.	israel should	15:32	\|	shawn	26/01/06

165.	Iran`s Whacko President	22:10	\|	Claudia	26/01/06

166.	#17 Rosengarten	02:26	\|	John Murphy	27/01/06

167.	John Murphy Comments	10:01	\|	Jenny O`Malley	27/01/06

168.	#167 Jennifer	13:07	\|	John Murphy	27/01/06

169.	Enevitability	18:00	\|	Reality strikes	11/02/06

170.	Holocast	18:12	\|	MMS	11/02/06

171.	Holocaust	22:56	\|	jlc	08/05/06

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