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Source: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,542-2499677.html
Criminal Denial: Iran's Posturing on the Holocaust Is an Affront to History and to Humanity
[Times-UK] - Editorial As even embarrassed Iranians realize, the conference is a disgrace, a grotesque attempt to relativize, if not deny, a crime against humanity. The more thoughtful Palestinians have already understood that the refusal to acknowledge the wartime persecution of the Jews gives credibility to the assertion that critics of Israel are motivated by anti-Semitism. Iran's president simply proves the point. Iranian Foreign Minister Mottaki has revealed the real intention: "If the official version of the Holocaust is thrown into doubt, then the identity and nature of Israel will be thrown into doubt."