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Statement to indict Iran's President Ahmadinejad

 
Speech to UN Human Rights Council on Iranian racial discrimination
The report before us cites Iran for three anti-Semitic acts: Convening an international conference "questioning the truth of the extermination of the European Jews by Nazi Germany"; Organizing an earlier Holocaust denial cartoon contest; and President Ahmadinejad's repeated calls for Israel to be "wiped off the map.
 
Letter by Iranian academics, writers & artists on the Tehran conference on Holocaust denial
Over the past year or so a number of official and unofficial public statements have been made in Iran denying the genocide of Jews during the Second World War. The culmination of this trend was the widely publicized, so called "International Holocaust Conference", held in Tehran in December 2006. Given the serious moral and practical implications of this trend, we, a group of Iranian academics, intellectuals, writers and artists, find it imperative to take a public stance on this issue.
 
UN condemns Holocaust denial while Iran disassociates itself
Wide view of the 2007 International Day of Commemoration in memory of the Victims of the Holocaust on the theme, "Focus on Youth and the Lessons of the Holocaust", at UN Headquarters in New York.The United Nations General Assembly today condemned without reservation any denial of the Holocaust, with only Iran publicly disassociating itself from the consensus resolution which was immediately hailed by Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. The Assembly, noting that the resolution was adopted on the eve of the UN-designated annual International Day of Commemoration for Holocaust victims, who also included not only Jews but also Roma, Sinti, homosexuals and other groups, called on all its 192 Member States “unreservedly to reject any denial of the Holocaust as a historical event, either in full or in part, or any activities to this end.”
 
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum denounces Iranian conference on the Holocaust
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum today strongly denounced the conference on the Holocaust being held in Tehran on December 11 and 12, 2006. U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council Chairman Fred S. Zeidman stated, “This conference deserves worldwide condemnation. It will serve as nothing more than an international platform for Holocaust denial, which is just another form of antisemitism. The Holocaust is the most well-documented crime in human history. The overwhelming majority of the material evidence comes from the official records of the perpetrators themselves who have never denied their responsibility for their crime.”
 
Forty human rights groups urge UN to Rebuke Iran
A coalition of leading human rights groups from around the world today called on UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour to rebuke Iran for its campaign of Holocaust denial, on the day the UN marks the genocide of Europe’s Jews with ceremonies in New York and Geneva. 
 
Muslim Congressman Condemns Iran Holocaust Denial
US representative Keith Ellison today denounced the international Holocaust denial campaign of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinedjad. Representative Ellison, Democrat of Minnesota and the first Muslim Member of the United States Congress, issued his statement in the U.S. Capitol.
 
Response by free Iranians to the Holocaust conference sponsored by the government of Iran
We the undersigned Iranians; Notwithstanding our diverse views on the Israeli–Palestinian conflict; Considering that the Nazis' coldly planned "Final Solution" and their ensuing campaign of genocide against Jews and other minorities during World War II constitute undeniable historical facts; Strongly condemn the Holocaust Conference sponsored by the government of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Tehran and its attempt to falsify history.
 
AMIA repudiates Iranian president's permanent provocation and defamation
AMIA, together with religious leaders and Holocaust survivors, repudiated the Iranian statement that questioned the existence of the Jewish Holocaust during WWII. They also requested the Argentine society at large, and especially its leaders, to join them in their complaint.
 
National Council of Churches condemns Iran Holocaust conference
It was one year ago that the National Council of Churches USA condemned Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's claim that the Holocaust was "a myth." Iran's recent hosting of a meeting of Holocaust deniers is "regrettable, unfortunate and repugnant," said Dr. Antonios Kireopoulos, NCC's associate general secretary for international affairs and peace.
 
German Government condemns Tehran Holocaust conference
DEUThe German government today condemned a planned Iranian conference on the Holocaust and summoned Iran’s charge d’affaires to the Foreign Ministry, calling attempts to question the Nazis’ murder of Jews “shocking and unacceptable”.  The conference, scheduled for December 10-11, was organised by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who has called the systematic killing of some six million Jews a “myth” and “exaggerated”.
 
US statement on Holocaust denial conference sponsored by Iranian regime
USAThe United States condemns the conference on the Holocaust convoked by the Iranian regime on Monday in Tehran. While people around the world mark International Human Rights Week and renew the solemn pledges of the Universal Declaration on Human Rights, which was drafted in the wake of the atrocities of World War II, the Iranian regime perversely seeks to call the historical fact of those atrocities into question and provide a platform for hatred. 
 
American Muslim leader says evidence of this barbaric act is irrefutable
The evidence of this crime, and the horrible magnitude of this killing, is irrefutable. From sources as varied as Nazi war records, film documentation, and most importantly, testimony of survivors and witnesses, we know that the mass murder of European Jews was, indeed, the single greatest crime of genocide in the 20th century. Yet the world now witnesses yet another wave of historical revisionism and Holocaust denial, this time emerging not from European anti-Semites, but from none other than the president of Iran.
 
UN Secretary-General deplores any conference that would question reality of Holocaust
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan came out strongly today against any effort to question or deny the Holocaust after reports that Iran would host a conference next week to discuss the scale and nature of the Nazi slaughter of 6 million Jews – already dismissed as a myth by its President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. “The Secretary-General personally believes that any attempt to cast doubt on the reality of this unique and undeniable horror must be firmly resisted by all people of goodwill and of whatever faith,” Mr. Annan spokesman, Stephane Dujarric, told the daily UN news briefing.
 
European Union condemns Iran for Holocaust denial
EUROPEEuropean Union leaders condemned Saturday Iran's president for denying the Holocaust, and warned Tehran the chance of a diplomatic solution on its disputed nuclear program would not last forever.  "These comments are wholly unacceptable and have no place in civilized political debate," the 25 EU heads of state and government said, referring to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's statement that the Nazi mass extermination of Jews was a myth.
 
B’nai Brith Canada declaration to counter Iran’s Holocaust denial and threat to Israel and world pea
Whereas the sole purpose of this conference is to incite hatred against the Jewish people by claiming that the Holocaust is a ‘hoax’, attempting to portray the Jewish people as greedy in seeking ‘false’ reparations and depicting support for Israel as illegitimate.  Be it therefore resolved that B’nai Brith Canada intensify its efforts to counter Iranian Holocaust denial, an example of modern day antisemitism, through Holocaust remembrance programs and educational outreach.  Be it further resolved that B’nai Brith remain steadfast in its course to shine a spotlight on human rights abusers such as Iran and to urge Canada to play a leading role in encouraging the international community to take up this important challenge.
 
Israel decries Iran's international Holocaust denial conference
The Government of Israel strongly condemns the shameless initiative taken by the Iranian Government to convene an international conference for the denial of the Holocaust, the so-called "International Conference Review of the Holocaust: Global Vision."
 
Canada condemn anti-Israeli and racist statements from Iranian President
UKROn behalf of the Government of Canada, I want to condemn, in the strongest terms, this latest example of anti-Israeli and racist statements from the President of Iran. In addition, the conference hosted by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad with the sole purpose of denying the Holocaust is an offence to all Canadians.
 
Russia denounces Holocaust conference
RUSRussia criticized Iran for hosting a conference that greatly diminished the Holocaust tragedy, saying Moscow opposed "the concealment of the truth about the monstrous crimes of the Nazis."  Russia had condemned Tehran and President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in the past for threatening Israel and denying the systematic killing of 6 million Jews by the Nazis during World War II, Russia's Foreign Ministry spokesman Mikhail Kamynin said as quoted by Russian leading news agency, RIA NOVOSTI.
 
Iran a 'major threat', says Blair
Tony Blair has said Iran poses a "major strategic threat" to the Middle East and is "deliberately causing" problems.  He called the Holocaust conference in Iran this week, which had speakers including an ex-Ku Klux Klan leader, "shocking beyond belief". Mr Blair also played down suggestions current problems in Iraq were caused by US decisions after Saddam's fall.
 
Statement of the Polish Government on the International Holocaust Conference
POLOn December 11-12, 2006 an International Conference on the Holocaust is being held in Teheran. The event has been organized by the Iranian Foreign Ministry’s Institute for Political and International Studies.  In the light of statements on the Holocaust made by prominent Iranians before the conference, it is not unfounded to fear that the event will be used to question the truth about the Shoah. Any attempt at contesting this truth arouses serious concern in Poland, where 6 million people were victims of the Nazi genocide.
 
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