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 Ogmin rated 32 months ago - ATTENTION ATTENTION ATTENTION ATTENTION ATTENTION ATTENTION ATTENTION
It is a well-known fact -
except among the American media,
the American government, and about 98.7 percent of the American people that
IRAN
is not a monolithic state where sheep-like masses bray with a single voice in c...
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- crystalclear rated 31 months ago
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- Ogmin rated 32 months ago
- ATTENTION ATTENTION ATTENTION ATTENTION ATTENTION ATTENTION ATTENTION
It is a well-known fact -
except among the American media,
the American government, and about 98.7 percent of the American people that
IRAN
is not a monolithic state where sheep-like masses bray with a single voice in chorus with their demented leaders, but is, on the contrary, a complex society where many conflicting opinions on matters political, religious, social, historical, etc., contend with each other in open debate.
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Iran's former reformist President Mohammad Khatami has described the Holocaust as a "historical reality" - a stinging attack on his controversial and revisionist successor Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. "We should speak out if even a single Jew is killed. Don't forget that one of the crimes of Hitler, Nazism and German national socialism was the massacre of innocent people, among them many Jews," the cleric said in comments carried in the Iranian press Wednesday.
The Holocaust, he asserted, should be recognized "even if this historical reality has been misused and there is enormous pressure on the Palestinian people." Ahmadinejad has caused international outrage by insisting the Holocaust was a myth used to justify the creation of Israel.
Khatami served as Iran's president from 1997 to 2005, and attempted to open up Iran to the West and initiate a "dialogue among civilizations" - in stark contrast to the ultra-conservative agenda of Ahmadinejad. The former president, who has shied away from the political limelight since leaving office, also asserted Muslims were not out to persecute Jews.
"The persecution of Jews, just like Nazism, is a Western phenomenon. In the east, we have always lived side by side with them. And we follow a religion that states that the death of an innocent person is the death of all of humanity," Khatami said...
Chris Floyd
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