Middle East Focus: Ahmadinejad’s Tour de Force: Jerusalem Day a Bust, Dodges Protest Bullet, Denies Holocaust, Denies Nuclear Weapons…….

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Ahmadinejad’s Tour de Force: Jerusalem Day a Bust, Dodges Protest Bullet, Denies Holocaust, Denies Nuclear Weapons…….

“Tehran- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has raised the stakes against Israel by describing the Holocaust as a lie, just as world powers are trying to decide how to deal with the nuclear ambitions of an Iran in political turmoil. "The pretext (Holocaust) for the creation of the Zionist regime (Israel) is false...... It is a lie based on an unprovable and mythical claim," he told worshippers at Tehran University at the end of an annual anti-Israel "Qods (Jerusalem) Day" rally.........”

""We don't need nuclear weapons," Ahmadinejad said to Ann Curry, speaking through an interpreter. "We do not see any need for such weapons. And the conditions around the world are moving to favor our ideas," he added......"

“Opposition supporters chanted anti-government slogans and waved green banners as they rallied on Friday in defiance of a government warning against using the annual al-Quds (Jerusalem) Day rally to protest. Witnesses reported instances of clashes between the rival demonstrators as well as between opposition supporters and security forces. It was not immediately possible to independently verify the reports.....”

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