While millions of people all around the world simply attribute Ahmadinejad’s anti jewish statements to his mad genocidial intents based on his hard line beliefs, there are experts who believe the reality is far from what it seems to be.
“Holocaust revisionism is really what the Islamic Republic’s leaders believe, and not just what Ahmadinejad believes,” said Frank Nikbakht, a local Iranian Jewish activist and researcher and former public affairs director for the Council of Iranian American Jewish Organizations.
“It is also part of their psychological warfare arsenal in their serious struggle to eliminate Israel, and their long-term program of global jihad as embodied in the current Iranian constitution,” he added.
Despite the fact that Ahmadinejad’s thoughtless racial statements behind the international tribunes has put the Iranian nation in a lot of trouble, the majority of the Iran’s educated class of people seem to have faced the whole thing productively, giving it a positive look.
“This is the first time there has been a visible interest by millions of curious young Iranian Muslims in the issue of the Holocaust in a positive and sympathetic way, a result that is exactly the opposite of Ahmadinejad’s intent. Countless Iranian groups and intellectuals are learning the truth about the Holocaust from articles written on the Web in Persian and through media broadcasts,” Nikbakht said.
Since the very first time Ahmadinejad talked about his dream to wipe Israel off the world’s map, there have been several analyses of his behaviour published in the media, very different in some cases.
Director of the Iranian studies program at Stanford University, Dr. Abbas Milani, said: “The most important reason for Ahmadinejad’s comments, I think, has been that he has been an absolute utter failure in his economic policies, in his international proposals, and he has isolated Iran more than ever,” Milani said. “Like most politicians, he likes to change the subject and this has again unfortunately done that for him.”
“Ahmadinejad uses Holocaust denial as a means to delegitimize Israel's existence,” said Yigal Carmon, president of the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), in Washington D.C.
“Holocaust denial is important to Ahmadinejad because the Holocaust lends moral justification to the creation and continued existence of the State of Israel. Ahmadinejad’s primary obsession is not with the Holocaust, but with Israel’s very existence. If the Holocaust can get in the way of achieving this goal, it must be denied,” Carmon said at a recent Holocaust denial symposium at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem.
Responsible for BRS social action initiatives, Rabbi Simcha Freedman, said that “We are witness to a madman, Ahmadinejad, who is today visiting with the president of Sudan, Omar Al-Bashir, and telling him he supports the progress of his country. What progress? The Sudanese president is allowing the genocide of a people to continue in Darfur.”
But the story sounds somehow different when told by the Iranian high ranking officials. But whose version of the story is more credibe?
A senior adviser to Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and president of the Holocaust Foundation, Mohammad Ali Ramin, said: “the Islamic Republic addressed an issue as delicate as that of the Holocaust on which Western governments are extremely sensitive, aware of the price it would have to pay on the international stage.”
“We were convinced that denying the Holocaust and underlining the destruction of Israel we would have diverted international attention away from the Iranian nuclear dossier. Denying the Holocaust has posed problems for that part of the West which, by sending the nuclear dossier to the UN Security Council, sought to bring us to our knees,” he added.
A lot of Iranian publications protested Ramin’s statement right away, calling them naiive, disruptive and unrealistic.
“Considering the high price paid by the country after the denial of the Holocaust, it would be no surprise to discover that president Ahmadinejad had been pushed to adopt such a position by an agent of the secret services of the Zionist regime,” wrote Baztab, a popular Iranian news webtie, in an apparent reference to Ramin.
“It is also part of their psychological warfare arsenal in their serious struggle to eliminate Israel, and their long-term program of global jihad as embodied in the current Iranian constitution,” he added.
Despite the fact that Ahmadinejad’s thoughtless racial statements behind the international tribunes has put the Iranian nation in a lot of trouble, the majority of the Iran’s educated class of people seem to have faced the whole thing productively, giving it a positive look.
“This is the first time there has been a visible interest by millions of curious young Iranian Muslims in the issue of the Holocaust in a positive and sympathetic way, a result that is exactly the opposite of Ahmadinejad’s intent. Countless Iranian groups and intellectuals are learning the truth about the Holocaust from articles written on the Web in Persian and through media broadcasts,” Nikbakht said.
Since the very first time Ahmadinejad talked about his dream to wipe Israel off the world’s map, there have been several analyses of his behaviour published in the media, very different in some cases.
Director of the Iranian studies program at Stanford University, Dr. Abbas Milani, said: “The most important reason for Ahmadinejad’s comments, I think, has been that he has been an absolute utter failure in his economic policies, in his international proposals, and he has isolated Iran more than ever,” Milani said. “Like most politicians, he likes to change the subject and this has again unfortunately done that for him.”
“Ahmadinejad uses Holocaust denial as a means to delegitimize Israel's existence,” said Yigal Carmon, president of the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), in Washington D.C.
“Holocaust denial is important to Ahmadinejad because the Holocaust lends moral justification to the creation and continued existence of the State of Israel. Ahmadinejad’s primary obsession is not with the Holocaust, but with Israel’s very existence. If the Holocaust can get in the way of achieving this goal, it must be denied,” Carmon said at a recent Holocaust denial symposium at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem.
Responsible for BRS social action initiatives, Rabbi Simcha Freedman, said that “We are witness to a madman, Ahmadinejad, who is today visiting with the president of Sudan, Omar Al-Bashir, and telling him he supports the progress of his country. What progress? The Sudanese president is allowing the genocide of a people to continue in Darfur.”
But the story sounds somehow different when told by the Iranian high ranking officials. But whose version of the story is more credibe?
A senior adviser to Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and president of the Holocaust Foundation, Mohammad Ali Ramin, said: “the Islamic Republic addressed an issue as delicate as that of the Holocaust on which Western governments are extremely sensitive, aware of the price it would have to pay on the international stage.”
“We were convinced that denying the Holocaust and underlining the destruction of Israel we would have diverted international attention away from the Iranian nuclear dossier. Denying the Holocaust has posed problems for that part of the West which, by sending the nuclear dossier to the UN Security Council, sought to bring us to our knees,” he added.
A lot of Iranian publications protested Ramin’s statement right away, calling them naiive, disruptive and unrealistic.
“Considering the high price paid by the country after the denial of the Holocaust, it would be no surprise to discover that president Ahmadinejad had been pushed to adopt such a position by an agent of the secret services of the Zionist regime,” wrote Baztab, a popular Iranian news webtie, in an apparent reference to Ramin.
In spite of all the irritations which Ahmadinejad and his colleagues have caused for both the free world and the Iranian nation, he keeps repeating those naiive words and continues to make anti semitic statements wherever he notices a camera filming him! Here are some instances.
“Why should Palestinians suffer for the anti-Semitism of Europeans?" Ahmadinejad said at a meeting on 24 February.”
At a previous meeting with US religious leaders in New York last year, Ahmadinejad said: “Let me ask you a question. What is it with Zionists and America? Anytime anyone says anything against the Zionists, it creates problems in the US. Are Zionists ruling America? Perhaps this is due to the sensationalising efforts of the media.”
Ahmadinejad also said: “Why the event should not be studied, giving a place to all opinions Why do you permit questions on the very existence of God, but not about the existence of the Holocaust?”
Senior legal council of the Jewish human rights group B’nai Brith, David Matas, said at a news conference: “Iran's president is inciting genocide against Jews.”
Israel’s foreign minister, Tzipi Livni, said in Brussels: "Iran is not only a threat to Israel but to the entire free world.”
Ahmadinejad’s racial statement has not only irritated the Israelis and the jews as a whole, but also naturally lots of people from all corners of the free world.
The Conservative Secretary of State for Multiculturalism and Canadian Identity, Jason Kenney, said that “Ahmadinejad is possessed with a maniacal hatred, and promises repeatedly to use violence to obliterate the Jewish people from the face of the earth. This is a man who must be stopped by the civilized world, and by his own people.”
Mount Royal MP and the Liberal human rights critic, Irwin Cotler, said that “Canada, as a state party of the Genocide Convention, should initiate a complaint against Iran before the International Court of Justice.”
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