 The Foreign Ministry said on Sunday that the view expressed by President Mahmud Ahmadinejad that there are some doubts about the Jewish Holocaust is not something new and is a matter of "scholarly debate".
| They just can't let the subject drop, can they? President Mahmoud sticks his feet in his mouth and wiggles his toes, and they stand right up and holler 'That's right!'... |
Some leading historians have written books arguing that the Zionists are exaggerating the number of Jews killed during the Second World War when they say that six million Jews were massacred.
| We won't dwell on what those historians are leading... |
"The type of response from the Europeans to the theoretical and scholarly debate of Mr. Ahmadinejad has no place in the civilized world and is totally emotional and illogical," Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid-Reza Asefi told reporters at his weekly press briefing. Asefi said he was surprised over the intensity of the criticism now directed at the Iranian president.
| That's because they just don't get it... |
Mr. Ahmadinejad initiated a scholarly debate, so the reaction is surprising, he added. "The reaction from European officials is a sign of their total, blind support for the Zionists. The Europeans should get used to hearing other opinions, even if they don't like them," Asefi said. | 'scholarly' .... You keep using that word. I do not think it means, what you think it means. |
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