World Jewish News

Holocaust denial conference considered to have damaged the reputation of Iranian scientists.

More than 20 Iranian intellectuals and activists have issued an open letter condemning a conference in Iran last month that questioned the existence of the Holocaust. The statement was published in The New York Times. It blasts the Iranian government for the distortion of historical facts, while paying homage to Jewish and non-Jewish victims of the Nazi regime. Iranian intellectuals consider the Holocaust denial conference held in December 2006 in Iran as a threat to peaceful living and damaging the reputation of Iranian scientists.
In December 2006 Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad convened a conference in Iran dedicated to denying the Holocaust which was attended by people such as former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke French, Canadian, Swiss, Austrian, and other Holocaust skeptics. In response, Israel began preparing for a campaign targeted at eliciting international condemnation of the conference.

Источник: newsru.co.il