Posted on 12/14/2006 8:28:41 AM PST by kronos77
Serbia and Russia on Wednesday join international calls condemning an gathering of Holocaust deniers hosted and sponsored by the Iranian government in Tehran.
Serbia called the conference a "damaging and pseudo-scientific" event.
The Balkan country's Foreign Ministry said in a statement that the two-day conference that began Tuesday in Tehran is an "attempt to deny undeniable facts about the tragedy of the Jewish people during World War II."
Participants at the gathering, supported by Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, have questioned the Holocaust's death toll of 6 million or if it took place at all.
Serbia's government considers the gathering a "damaging and pseudo-scientific manifestation that cannot contribute to dialogue between cultures and religions," it said.
During the Nazi occupation of Serbia and other parts of the then Yugoslav Kingdom, tens of thousands of Jews died. Less than half of Serbia's 30,000-strong Jewish community before World War II survived the Holocaust. Many later moved to Israel or to the West.
Meanwhile, Russia's Foreign Ministry on Wednesday criticized Iran for hosting a conference of Holocaust deniers, saying Moscow opposed "the concealment of the truth about the monstrous crimes of the Nazis."
In a statement posted on the ministry's Web site, spokesman Mikhail Kamynin said Russia had condemned Tehran and President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in the past for threatening Israel and denying the systematic killing of 6 million Jews by the Nazis during World War II.
Russia opposes "the distortion of historic events, the concealment of the truth about the monstrous crimes of the Nazis, and revision of results of humanity's most difficult struggle against Nazism," he said.
"Russia shares the determination of the UN general assembly not to allow the denial of the Holocaust."
Russia has itself had a troubled history with anti-Semitism.
Some scholars estimate that as many as 2 million Jews from the Soviet Union died in the Holocaust following the Nazi invasion of the country in World War II.
Russian Jewish leaders also condemned the conference.
Authorities "should unambiguously state their rejection of such issues," Borukh Gorin of the Federation of Jewish Communities in Russia, was quoted by Interfax as saying. He also asked whether "an Iran headed by a maniac with an atomic bomb is advantageous or safe?"
The two-day conference in Iran sparked widespread and angry condemnation in Israel and across Europe, where many countries have made it a crime to publicly deny that the Holocaust happened.
He also asked whether "an Iran headed by a maniac with an atomic bomb is advantageous or safe?"
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My take: Iran opened its sick mouth once too often by openly threatening the existence of Israel. The fate of Iran's "nuclear power program" has been sealed.
Meanwhile, Russia continues to provide Iran with the ability to produce nukes. Russia needs to pay if anything happens.
Meanwhile, US supports Muslim plan to steal 15% of Serbin territory...
Russia is doing what its always does. Play both sides of the fence for financial gain.
The de-weaponised nuclear fuel Russia plans to send to Iran cannot be used to make nukes.
When Khatami was president of Iran, he was a "nice" smiley-face who fooled many (inside and outside of Iran) that Iran was taking a "moderate" direction. But the same wacko, extremist, and terrorist mullahs we are dealing with now were in power back then, and were plotting their worldwide imperial schemes with their front-man as a cover!!!!
Now that Ahmadi-Nejad is Iran's president, we at least know EXACTLY what we're dealing with!!!!
Owl_Eagle
If what I just wrote made you sad or angry,
it was probably just a joke.
I still miss Henry and was just thinking about him the other day, Owl_Eagle.
So, in that vein, I hereby deny that I never took that one girl to Senior Prom...it was somebody else.
No; better yet--the Prom itself never happened.
Sergei Kiriyenko, head of the Russian Federal Atomic Energy Agency (Rosatom), traveled to Tehran this week to reinforce Moscow's determination to develop nuclear ties with Iran, despite Western concerns.Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki was quoted as telling the Russian visitor that Iran remained resolved to complete the full nuclear fuel cycle.
Kiriyenko's trip to Tehran coincided with the opening of a controversial conference there questioning the Holocaust, an event attended by Mottaki, among others. - LINK
Yet Putin's Russia continues supplying jihad promoting Iran with enough advanced weaponry to allow the repressive mullah régime to attempt another Holocaust, which Iran's insane rulers have stated publicly they will carry out - if not prevented.
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