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Revisionism in Iran, in France and in the World

With his recent statements on "the myth of the Holocaust", the 
president of Iran has given new momentum to the development of 
historical revisionism, as is made plain by the following exchange 
between the Managing Director of the Neda Institute of Political 
Sciences (Teheran) and the Frenchman Robert Faurisson.

Dr Jawad Sharbaf, Managing Director, Neda Institute of Political 
Sciences (Teheran)
to Professor Robert Faurisson, December 19, 2005

Dear Professor Faurisson

I take this opportunity to express Neda Institute of 
Scientific-Political Research and Studies' deep sorrow to you and all 
revisionists regarding the UN resolution on "Holocaust Day" [of 
November 1, 2005]. President Mahmud Ahmadinejad's recent remarks 
doubting the "Holocaust" have created a favourable situation for 
revisionism. Our assumption for the time being is that the President 
will undoubtedly do his best if you make contact and request 
assistance for organising an international conference on revisionism. 
Should you require any help in this regard, please do not hesitate to 
contact me.

With the best of good wishes,
Dr Jawad Sharbaf, Managing Director, Neda Institute


Professor Robert Faurisson to Dr Jawad Sharbaf, December 26, 2005

Dear Dr Sharbaf,

I heartily thank you for your message and your proposal concerning 
the organisation of an international revisionist conference. In 
November of 2000 I had the honour of being a guest for a week in 
Teheran at the invitation of an Iranian government agency. On that 
occasion, I made the acquaintance of your Institute where I was 
welcomed by Dr Soroush-Nejad and a group of professors, one of whom 
was then finishing the Persian translation of my Mémoire en défense 
contre ceux qui m'accusent de falsifier l'histoire (1980). For these 
last five years, during which we have maintained contact, I have 
noted that your country's political heads have been reluctant to 
denounce the lie of the alleged "Holocaust" of the Jews, a lie whose 
ravages, wrought for more than half a century now, and to the 
particular detriment of the Palestinian people, are a disaster that 
worsens from year to year. I was hoping that one day a high 
government official would have the courage to put it plainly to the 
world that that "Holocaust" was but a legend or a myth. On December 
8, 2005, - a date that will be remembered - the President of your 
country, Mr Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, - a name that will go down in 
history - dared to voice doubts on the historical reality of the 
alleged "Holocaust". On December 12, he spoke of it as a "myth". 
Moreover, he spoke in defence of the revisionists' right to express 
themselves freely. On December 22, in Egypt, the general guide of the 
Moslem Brothers, Mohamed Mehdi Akef, also used the word "myth" in 
that regard but not without retracting in part two days later, potent 
and intimidating as that myth is. On December 23, an Iranian 
official, Mohamed-Ali Ramin, head of the association for the defence 
of the rights of Moslem minorities in the West, declared that your 
President wished to see the European governments let academics in 
their countries publish the results of their research into the 
"Holocaust".

On November 1st, unanimously and without a vote, the representatives 
of the 191 countries constituting the UN adopted an Israeli-drafted 
resolution proclaiming January 27th "International Day of 
Commemoration in memory of the victims of the Holocaust". Moreover, 
this text "Rejects any denial of the Holocaust as an historical 
event, either in full or part". Thus are targeted all those who, like 
the revisionists, demand a re-examination of the evidence and 
testimonies on which the argument of the alleged "Holocaust" of the 
Jews is based. In the main, the upholders of that argument affirm 
that, during the Second World War, the Germans 1) had a policy of 
physical extermination of the Jews; 2) had designed, built and used 
great slaughterhouses for humans called gas chambers (not to be 
confused with the crematory ovens, which had nothing criminal about 
them) and 3) caused, by this means and others, the death of six 
million Jews.

The proposition was adopted through a sleight of hand that I have 
described in a text of which you are aware entitled "The UN Decides a 
Universal Ban on Revisionism".

The accusation brought by the Jews against the German people 
constitutes a slander. Marked with the sign of Cain, that people has 
thus far had no other recourse than to lose itself in contrition for 
a crime that it never committed. Sixty years after the war, Germany 
is still in a state of subjection and has not yet had the right to a 
peace treaty. The German (and Austrian) leaders ceaselessly ask the 
Jews' forgiveness and lay out colossal financial "reparations" to 
Jewish or Zionist organisations and the State of Israel. For sixty 
years, those countries' rulers have lived in dread of arousing the 
Jews' wrath; consequently they can be seen stifling any sign of 
historical revisionism. In Germany, in Austria but also in a good 
many other countries in Europe, the Jews have succeeded in getting 
special laws passed serving to protect their own version of the 
history of the Second World War from any challenge.

The imposture of the "Holocaust" is the sword and shield of the 
Jewish State, its no. 1 weapon. It enables the Jews and Zionists to 
indict the whole world: first Germany which, according to it, 
committed an abominable and unprecedented crime, then the rest of the 
world which had let that crime be committed. The Jewish extremists 
and the Zionists have gone on to charge Churchill, Roosevelt, Truman, 
Stalin, De Gaulle, Pope Pius XII, the International Committee of the 
Red Cross as well as all the countries that took part in the Second 
World War and even all the neutral countries, beginning with 
Switzerland. All are accused of having been indifferent to the 
tragedy and of having let the Jewish people be exterminated as 
alleged!

So it is that in taking a position today against the lie of the 
"Holocaust", Iran happens to be defending not only Palestine and the 
Arabo-Moslem world but also an entire part of the human race against 
a gigantic slander, blackmail and extortion operation.

You inform me that, thanks to President Ahmadinejad, the occasion may 
finally have arisen to envisage the holding of an international 
conference on revisionism.

You surely know that the revisionists were, in 2001, preparing to 
hold such a conference in Beirut from March 31 to April 2 of that 
year. But Israeli and American pressures became so threatening that 
Lebanese President Rafik Hariri had to forbid the gathering. We 
should therefore be happy to turn to President Ahmadinejad and 
request his help in holding a conference in your country. However, in 
view of the circumstances, such a project seems, sad to say, 
unrealisable at this moment. Allow me to explain why.  
At present the main revisionists who, in 2001, would have 
participated in the Beirut conference are either in prison, in exile 
or in a precarious situation that forbids them from crossing national 
borders and from boarding a flight at an international airport.

We may take the appalling case of Ernst Zündel. Married to an 
American lady and living peacefully in the State of Tennessee, he was 
arrested outside his house on February 5, 2003 and thrown in jail 
under a pretext made of lies. Then he was delivered to Canada where, 
for two years, he languished in degrading conditions of solitary 
confinement in a high-security prison. Finally, he was handed over to 
Germany, where he is now in prison (in Mannheim) awaiting trial for 
revisionism. In Canada, as in Germany, revisionists are deprived of 
the right to defend themselves. In those countries, when a man 
accused of revisionism stands before a judge, the latter begins, in 
line with the routine, by having him swear to tell the truth. But if, 
in the following minute, the accused says, for example: "I affirm 
that the alleged Nazi gas chambers did not exist because the truth - 
which I can well demonstrate - is that they could not exist", the 
judge will interrupt him immediately. The Canadian judge will tell 
him: "Before this special court [christened 'Human rights tribunal'] 
truth is no defence". As for the German judge, he will tell him: "You 
have not the right to challenge obvious facts of common knowledge 
('offenkundig')". Thus neither the revisionist in question nor his 
lawyers can present a defence on the merits of the case. In Canada, 
judge Pierre Blais, presiding alone without a jury over proceedings 
against Ernst Zündel admitting of no appeal, the special court went 
so far as to examine anonymous witnesses in closed session. Then, in 
Mannheim, the chief judge dismissed in succession the four lawyers 
whom Ernst Zündel had chosen, and this because he suspected them of 
revisionism.

Still in the United States, near Chicago, the German citizen Germar 
Rudolf was recently kidnapped in the same style, torn from his 
American wife and their child and delivered to Germany; he is in 
prison in Stuttgart.

The Belgian Siegfried Verbeke was arrested last summer at Amsterdam 
airport and handed over by the Netherlands to Germany; he is in 
prison in Heidelberg.

The British historian David Irving was arrested in November while 
travelling in Austria and is now in prison in Vienna.

These four persons risk being sentenced to years of imprisonment, 
except perhaps David Irving if, as his lawyer lets it be understood 
that he will do, he retracts, shows repentance and pleads for the 
court's leniency. 

Other revisionists are in prison in Germany or Austria, notably the 
barrister Manfred Roeder, the school headmaster Ernst G. Kögel and 
the chemist Wolfgang Fröhlich.

Germany has become Israel's "Guantanamo Bay" by the intermediary of a 
sort of judicial and police mafia which, in the United States and 
Canada, lashes out at revisionists (and at certain Arabs or Moslems) 
within the so convenient framework of the "fight against terrorism".  

In Switzerland the revisionists Gaston-Armand Amaudruz (aged 84) and 
René-Louis Berclaz have recently got out of prison, but might well 
return there.

Some important revisionists are living in exile in difficult 
conditions. I shall refrain here from naming either them or the 
countries where they have found refuge.

There remains the case of those revisionists who are neither in 
prison nor in exile. Their existence is hardly more enviable. The 
police harass them, the courts convict them. To speak only of France, 
Jean Plantin (prosecuted in Lyon), Vincent Reynouard (prosecuted in 
Limoges) and Georges Theil (prosecuted in Grenoble, Limoges and Lyon) 
have been or are currently under diverse sentences, including that of 
imprisonment without remission. Bruno Gollnisch, member of the 
European parliament, is to be summoned before a court in Lyon simply 
for having said that he wished historians could express themselves 
freely on the problem of the Nazi gas chambers' existence! I myself 
am to appear on June 20, 2006 at the 17th chamber of the Paris 
criminal court for having given a telephone interview of revisionist 
substance to the Iranian television channel "Sahar"; charges were 
brought by Mr Dominique Baudis, president of the Conseil Supérieur de 
l'audiovisuel.

Fredrick Töben, an Australian national of German origin, had 
developed his revisionist activity in Australia and on the Internet. 
While travelling in Germany and seeking to inquire at the source 
about judicial repression of revisionism in that country, he soon 
found himself in prison there. Now back in Australia, he has been hit 
with a "gag order", that is, he is in principle bound to silence on 
pain of summary conviction for contempt of court.

In Poland, the Czech republic, and other countries of Europe, 
revisionists are also prosecuted and convicted.

In Sweden, Ahmed Rami carries on with indomitable courage a struggle 
for both Islam and revisionism which has earned him time in prison.

In Germany, the number of publications burned by the police because 
of revisionism is not officially known but it might be considerable. 
Likewise in Canada.

I shall not relate here the revisionists' exclusions from professions 
of all sorts in various countries or the family tragedies and 
suicides provoked by the repression. In Munich on the 25th of April 
1995 the revisionist Reinhold Elstner burned himself to death as a 
protest, as he had written, against "the Niagara of lies" poured upon 
his people. The mainstream German press passed his heroic act over in 
silence and the police there, doing as ordered, confiscated the 
bouquets of flowers laid at the site of that sacrifice and proceeded 
to question those who, by that gesture of compassion, had shown their 
own anguish. In France, armed Jewish groups use violence with 
impunity even in the halls of the central courthouse in Paris. 
Personally, between 1978 and 1993, I suffered ten physical assaults 
on the part of Jews who, however, were never tried.

If the Jews and Zionists use physical violence and judicial 
repression in this way, it is because, on the level of scientific and 
historical argumentation, the revisionists have beaten them hands 
down. The drama of it for the Jews and Zionists is that they have 
been lying and that this fact is becoming known more and more. 
Certain Jews and even certain Israelis seem to be conscious of this. 
A minute few have had the courage to declare their scepticism 
concerning the reality of the "Holocaust" whereas others have been 
content to speak out against "the Holocaust religion", "the Holocaust 
industry" or the "Shoah business".

In conclusion, I think that, until things have changed somewhat, an 
international conference is, unfortunately, impossible. But, in 
accord with an idea put forth by professor Arthur Robert Butz, I 
shall say that we hope to see President Ahmadinejad create in Iran an 
international centre for revisionist studies whose first task would 
be to propagate historical revisionism's attainments in the 
Arabo-Moslem world via the Internet or any other medium. Meanwhile, 
we request that Iran make repeated appeals to the Western world for 
the freeing of our prisoners of conscience.

In any case, we for our part consider that as long as in the United 
States, Canada, nearly all of Europe and as far away as Australia the 
revisionists are subjected either to special laws or tribunals, 
underhanded police procedures, or methodical vilification by media in 
the service of certain Jewish or Zionist pressure groups, the Western 
world will have ever less right to impose lessons of lawfulness, 
morality or democracy on others.

Yours respectfully,

Robert Faurisson
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