(Xinhua) -- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Friday that the Holocaust was a "myth" created by the West to support Israel.
"They (the West) created the myth of the Holocaust," Ahmadinejad said when addressing a crowd gathered at Tehran University at the end of the annual anti-Israel "Quds (Jerusalem) Day" rally.
"They lied and then support the Jews," he added.
"The pretext (Holocaust) for creating the Zionist regime (Israel) is a lie which relies on an unreliable and mythical claim," he said.
"The occupation of Palestinian territories has nothing to do with the Holocaust, and confronting the Zionist regime (Israel) isa national and religious duty," he added.
According to local English-language Press TV, millions of Iranians took to the streets in different cities to mark the annual Quds Day march in solidarity with Palestinians.
At the end of the rallies, a statement was issued in support of Palestinians, which said that the Iranians "support Palestinian resistance and Israel must avoid any new adventurism" in the region.
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