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'Moderate' Rohani a Holocaust denier?

In an interview broadcast on NBC's Today show on Thursday (with the interviewer in a  hijab), 'moderate' new Iranian President Hassan Rohani ducked a question about the Holocaust by saying he's not a historian.

Let's go to the videotape (Hat Tip: MFS - The Other News).



Does he deny the Holocaust or doesn't he? Or is he just more interested in perpetrating the next one? Hussein Obama doesn't know and doesn't care.

UPDATE 3:25 PM

There's a full article from Anne Bayefsky that goes with this one, and it's well-worth reading. 

The major glitch in the diplomatic whirlwind so far — other than the fact that the Iranian nuclear weapons program is as plain as day — came in the context of those inconvenient Jews. It turns out that you can take the Iranian president out of the country but you can’t take the antisemitism out of the Iranian president.

NBC’s Curry asked Rouhani whether he believed that the Holocaust was “a myth.” “I’m not a historian,” Rouhani replied. “I’m a politician.” Such a politician, in fact, that on cue he gave the Iranian leadership’s stock answer. Time and again, Ahmadinejad also insisted that more historical study was required to determine whether there was a Holocaust.

As for ridding the world of Israel, Curry asked whether it was true that “Iran wanted to wipe Israel off the map.” To which Rouhani replied: “What we wish for in this country is rule by the will of the people. We believe in the ballot box.” Ahmadinejad himself couldn’t have said it better. The former president repeatedly said that millions of Palestinians should all “return” to the Zionist entity, outnumber the Jews, and hold another one-off Arab election. Bye-bye Jewish state and any nonsense about a two-state solution.

Moderate Rouhani also talked about “pressure groups” (nudge, nudge, wink, wink: those Jews) influencing countries like America.

In theory, the antisemitism shouldn’t fit too well with all the lectures about values to which Americans have been treated over the past month by the Obama administration. Connecting the dots between refusing to acknowledge the Holocaust and using nukes against the Jewish remnants of the Holocaust, however, seems to be beyond the imagination of this White House.

And the 'change' in the nuclear program is also nonsense. Read the whole thing. 

Labels: Barack Hussein Obama, Hassan Rohani, Holocaust denial, Iranian nuclear threat

posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 3:08 PM