(The Iranian government wants to bring together people like Deborah
Lipstadt representing the side that 6 million Jews got killed by Hitler and
"the other side". What a joke. You might as well organize a conference with
"both sides" on whether Black people are genetically inferior, or whether
the Earth is flat or round.)
NY Times, December 5, 2006
Iran to Host Scholarly Seminar on Holocaust
By NAZILA FATHI
TEHRAN, Dec. 5 Iran will hold a two-day conference on the Holocaust next
week in which more than 60 scholars from some 30 countries will
participate, the Foreign Ministry said today.
The seminar is in response to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejads comments last
year, when he said the scale of the genocide of the Jews had been
exaggerated, the deputy foreign minister, Manouchehr Mohammadi, told a news
conference today. Mr. Ahmadinejad first stirred outrage in the West in
December last year, when he called the Holocaust a myth. He has repeatedly
said that the Holocaust has been used as a tool of propaganda, and banned
scholars here from research on the subject. The president also sent a
3,000-word letter to Germanys Chancellor Angela Merkel outlining his
arguments.
Mr. Mohammadi said next weeks conference will provide the opportunity for
scholars from both sides to give their papers in freedom and without
pre-conceived ideas. He refused to give the names of the 67 international
scholars he said were attending the seminar, out of concern that their
countries would prohibit them from coming.
full: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/05/world/middleeast/06irancnd.html
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