Ahmadinejad says Holocaust a lie, Israel has no future

Yahoo News/Reuters ^ | Sept. 18, 2009

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TEHRAN (Reuters) – President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called the Holocaust a lie Friday, raising the stakes against Israel just as world powers try 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.

"Confronting the Zionist regime is a national and religious duty."

Ahmadinejad's anti-Western comments on the Holocaust have caused international outcry and isolated Iran, which is at loggerheads with the West over its nuclear program.

The hardline president warned leaders of Western-allied Arab and Muslim countries about dealing with Israel.

"This regime (Israel) will not last long. Do not tie your fate to it ... This regime has no future. Its life has come to an end," he said in a speech broadcast live on state radio.

[Sparky760]

I see a future for Israel. I think it includes Iran, sand and glass.

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I am amazed he can visit NYC twice and not go back to Iran in a body bag. Is there no David Berkowitz who can be obsessed with him instead of young couples?

[cricket]

Am surprised we have not heard same oral sludge from Jimmy Carter. There is still time, of course. . .

[Just mythoughts]

Why isn't BamaKennedy talking to these people? Wasn't that campaign promise #1? Instead BamaKennedy is lost in his endless chatter of his health care reformation and has apparently forgot his promise to talk one on one with Arm-a-jab.

Maybe BamaKennedy can invite this loud mouth trouble maker over to the White House patio and have a beer to calm him down a bit.