Switzerland has joined other European counties in condemning a conference held in Iran which has questioned the Holocaust.  Swiss foreign ministry spokesman said that it was "unacceptable" to doubt the Holocaust's existence. Iran called the two-day meeting, which finished on Tuesday, because it said it wanted to debate what it calls taboos surrounding the Holocaust. Participants at the event in the capital Tehran included white supremacists and Holocaust deniers.

Around six million Jews are estimated to have been killed by the Nazi regime during the Second World War. Swiss Foreign Ministry spokesman Johann Aeschlimann said on Tuesday that the ministry condemned any querying of the right of Israel to exist, as had once again happened in Tehran, and of the Holocaust. "The Shoah is a historical fact. It is unacceptable to call this into question," he said.

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