Progress on the Revisionist Front: Iran challenges Europe to hand over Holocaust 'proof'

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>  Iran challenges Europe to hand over Holocaust 'proof'
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>Tue Feb 6, 8:18 AM ET
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>TEHRAN (AFP) - An Iranian government-sponsored body set up to probe 
>the veracity of the Holocaust has challenged Europe to hand over 
>documents about the mass slaughter of Jews in World War II.
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>Mohammad Ali Ramin, the head of the "World Holocaust Foundation" 
>created after Iran's controversial Holocaust conference last year, 
>said Austria, Germany and Poland in particular should supply 
>documents.
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>"They should hand over the proof for the dossier on the organized 
>massacre of Jews in Europe during World War II to the independent 
>international fact-finding committee affiliated to this foundation," 
>the IRNA state news agency quoted him as saying Tuesday.
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>President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad ordered the creation of the foundation 
>after inviting a number of controversial revisionist Holocaust 
>researchers to a conference in Tehran in December that caused an 
>international outcry.
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>Ahmadinejad has repeatedly questioned the scale of the Holocaust, 
>described the mass killing of six million Jews in World War II as a 
>"myth" and also called for Israel to be "wiped from the map".
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>The foreign researchers invited to the conference -- some of whom 
>have criminal records at home -- gave papers claiming the Holocaust 
>never happened on the scale assumed by the vast majority of 
>historians.
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>Mainstream historians specialising in the Third Reich counter there 
>is ample documentary proof that around six million Jews were killed 
>by the Nazis in World War II although some estimates put the figure 
>slightly higher or lower.
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>The UN General Assembly last month unanimously approved a 
>US-proposed resolution condemning denial of the Holocaust, in a move 
>diplomats said was directly aimed at Iran's stance.
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>Meanwhile, leading reformist daily Etemad Melli published an 
>editorial by an academic condemning the conference, the latest voice 
>to be raised at home against the gathering.
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>"The Tehran Holocaust conference gave foreign media the chance to 
>attack the Islamic republic, and several countries and also 
>international figures like (former and present UN Secretary 
>Generals) Kofi Annan and Ban Ki-moon reacted," said Mohammad Taghi 
>Karoubi.
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>The conference caused Iran "international isolation over an issue 
>that has nothing to do with our national interests and does nothing 
>to help the oppressed Palestinian people," he added.
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