Wiesenthal Center Hails Reformist Iranian Politicians For Criticizing Iranian Holocaust Conference

WIESENTHAL CENTER HAILS REFORMIST IRANIAN POLITICIANS FOR CRITICIZING IRANIAN HOLOCAUSTCONFERENCE

Center posts its “36 Questions About the Holocaust” in Persian

The Simon Wiesenthal Center today applauded reformists in the Iranian Parliament for condemning President MahmoudAhmadinejad’s administration for the convening of a controversial Holocaust conference that included historical revisionists and deniers. The reformers, who represent a 42-member faction,blamed the current Administration for Iran’s deepening diplomatic isolation. “The only way to pass this crisis is to build confidence….but holding a Holocaust conference and financing theHamas government creates mistrust and tension,” said Noureddin Pirmoazzen, spokesman for the Reformist faction.

“Holocaust survivors and decent people everywhere should take heart from the remarkable statement, which proves thatmany Iranians aren’t embracing Ahmadinejad’s campaign of hate,” said Rabbi Abraham Cooper, Associate Dean of the Wiesenthal Center. “This protest is especially meaningful as it comes onthe heels of Iranian TV’s broadcast of another Holocaust denial conference that took place in Cairo on December 27,” Cooper added.

“Now we must arm the Iranian people with the truth,” said Cooper. We should make every effort to educate youngIranians about the legacy of the Nazi Holocaust, history’s most documented atrocity,” he concluded.

In this connection, the Wiesenthal Center is posting a Persian translation of its “36 Questions About theHolocaust” online at: www.wiesenthal.com/36questionsinfarsi . The Center will also release a 2-DVD set of its three-city videoconference of Holocaust survivors, held last month inresponse to the Tehran conference. Last year, the Center broadcast into Iran via satellite segments translated into Farsi of its Academy Award™ winning documentary, Genocide.