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Teaching the Holocaust in Tehran

January 24, 2011 12:08
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

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Jennifer Lipman,

Jennifer Lipman

1 min read

Yad Vashem has begun broadcasting videos in Farsi.

The Israeli Holocaust memorial museum, which already has an Arabic YouTube channel, has launched the service in a bid to educate Iran’s population about the Nazis.

The videos will highlight the atrocities of the Second World War and the genocide of six million Jews to a population whose president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has publicly questioned the Holocaust.

In 2005 he told thousands of Iranian citizens at a rally that Jews had "created a myth today that they call the massacre of Jews and they consider it a principle above God, religions and the prophets."

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