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Tehran: Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Tuesday that Israel will one day be “wiped out” as the Soviet Union was.
His comments were said during a two-day conference aimed at casting doubt on the Holocaust.
“The Zionist regime will be wiped out soon the same way the Soviet Union was, and humanity will achieve freedom,” he said.
He called for elections among “Jews, Christians and Muslims so the population of Palestine can select their government and destiny for themselves in a democratic manner.”
Ahmadinejad has previously referred to the Holocaust as a “myth” used to impose the State of Israel on the Arab world.
He said the conference would set up a “fact-finding commission” to determine whether the Holocaust happened or not and “help end a 60-year-old dispute.”
British Prime Minister Tony Blair said Tuesday that the conference was “shocking beyond belief” and “a symbol of sectarianism and hatred.”
In Washington, the White House condemned Iran for convening a conference it called “an affront to the entire civilised world.”
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