Liar David Irving unlikely to attend Iran's 'big debate'

Guardian: Tehran faces backlash over conference to question Holocaust

Iran announced yesterday it would stage a conference to question the authenticity of the Holocaust, a move certain to stir international anger.

The statement follows a series of inflammatory remarks by Iran's hawkish president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who has described the murder of six million Jews by the Nazis in the second world war as a myth and called for Israel to be "wiped off the map". He has also suggested an alternative Jewish state should be set up in Europe or Alaska.

An Iranian foreign ministry spokesman said the proposed conference would examine the Holocaust's "scientific aspects and its repercussions". The description echoes Mr Ahmadinejad's characterisation of Holocaust denial earlier this month as a "scientific debate".

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db: Well thankfully this bogus 'debate' is unlikely to include the notorious liar, Hitler apologist and holocaust revisionist David Irving, who no doubt would love to be there [and is apparently very popular], but currently languishes (quite unjustifiably) in an Austrian jail. I don't think that this conference will ever get off the ground, if it does it will be a joke.