Posted on 03/05/2006 4:00:34 PM PST by freedom44
Tehran, Iran, Mar. 06 – Former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl reportedly told Iranian businessmen in Germany that he agreed with statements by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad that the Holocaust was a “myth”, the semi-official Jomhouri Islami reported on Monday.
The government-owned daily wrote that at a dinner gala with Iranian hoteliers and entrepreneurs, Kohl said that he “heartily agreed” with Ahmadinejad’s remarks about the Holocaust.
“What Ahmadinejad said about the Holocaust was in our bosoms”, the former German chancellor was quoted as saying. “For years we wanted to say this, but we did not have the courage to speak out”.
Ahmadinejad caused an international furore last year when he publicly declared that the Holocaust was a “myth” and threatened that Israel must be “wiped off the map”.
His comments were supported by senior Iranian officials, including Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and former president Ayatollah Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani.
The country’s state-run media have systematically defended the position of the Iranian president and given extensive coverage to historians and “experts” who deny the Holocaust took place.
Oy freaking veh. This will not stand.
These guys sure know how to make friends.
Scratch the germans off the list.
I won't believe this story until I see it corroborated.
My guess would be they are lying about what Kohl said.
Frickin' unbelievable!!!!
This story is meaningless without confirmation from a German source.
Kohl will have written his public epitaph if he in fact made these comments.
Will the alphabet channels report this?
Some people do anything for money ..Wouldn't surprise me that he spread his legs like this to make Iranian $$$$
Maybe if it said Bill Clinton said this to a group of Iranian businessan I'd believe it easier. He's such a slut for $$$$
Oh yeah.... Like I really believe this.
What ever else Kohl is, he is not a blabbermouth and even if he was thinking this -- and I don't believe for moment he was -- he would have never said it out loud.
This is going to fly like a toolbox. What the dumba$$ Iranians have said here would make Kohl a criminal under German law if it were true.
My surname is German, I damned sure don't brag about it, anymore, these days!
It just may be that when my German ancestor left, he brought the last damned set of functional German balls, along with him!
Once upon a time I believed in genetic memory, reckon I was wrong!
"I won't believe this story until I see it corroborated."
Me neither.
I think the Iranians are lyign here.
Nah. I don't believe it for a minute. I never believe what a non-free country's "state-run media" have to say about anything.
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