(AFP/Yahoo) Former Iranian president Mohammad Khatami Wednesday described the Holocaust as a "historical reality." "One of the crimes of Hitler, Nazism, and German national socialism was the massacre of innocent people, among them many Jews," he said. Meanwhile, the prominent Iranian newspaper Shargh complained that "the Holocaust has, as wished for by the president, become a topic of our foreign policy." "Don't we have enough with the nuclear question, human rights, free elections, and political in-fighting," the paper asked.
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