Iran / 04-09-2010
Iran - Iranian cleric: Holocaust is 'superstition'
Iran's Grand Ayatollah Nasser Makarem-Shirazi joined Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in denying the Holocaust, saying it was nothing more than a "superstition" meant to manipulate the West and the United States.
The ayatollah, speaking in the city of Qom, was quoted by the IRNA news agency.
Shirazi, who is considered one of the great Shiite rulers in Iran, said the Holocaust was "a superstition. But the Zionists say that all peoples of the world must accept that.
"The truth about the Holocaust is not clear, and when researchers want to determine if (the event) is true or whether the Jews have invented it to make themselves look like victims, they are imprisoned.
"Americans and Westerners," he continued, "Are affected by a newly emerging superstition like the Holocaust".
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