An Iranian Jewish official criticized the country’s president for denying the Holocaust. “How is possible to ignore all of the undeniable evidence existing for the exile and massacre of the Jews in Europe during World War II?” Haroun Yashayaei wrote in a recent letter to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, copies of which reached the international media this week.
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