‘Introduction: Iranian Regime’s Policy of Promoting Holocaust Denial
For years, the Iranian regime has used Holocaust denial as a key means of challenging the establishment of the State of Israel, thereby denying its right to exist.[1] The regime has promoted this policy in statements by its senior officials, by enlisting government media organs, and through a range of web-based activities. For example, at a 2009 conference in Tehran in support of the Palestinians, Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei linked these two issues by saying that “the Zionists occupied Palestine under the pretext of the Holocaust,” and complained that the Western governments and the Western and Zionist media tolerated no questions about the truth of the Holocaust: “The intolerance shown by the Western and Zionist media and pro-Zionist governments toward even the mere posing of any question concerning the Holocaust — which served as an excuse for the usurpation of Palestine — and research on the topic, is one of the signs of [the West’s] nervousness and uncertainty.”[2]
At the forefront of Iranian and worldwide Holocaust denial as a means of delegitimizing Israel stands Iranian President Mahmoud Ah… >>>
