A former Iranian president acknowledged the Holocaust. “I believe that Holocaust is the crime of Nazism. But it is possible that the Holocaust, which is an absolute fact, a historical fact, would be misused. The Holocaust should not be, in any way, an excuse for the suppression of Palestinian rights,” Mohammed Khatami said in a Time magazine interview published over the weekend.
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