The Iranian ambassador to Portugal was criticized after he voiced doubt about the Holocaust. “When I was ambassador in Warsaw, I visited Auschwitz and Birkenau twice and made my calculations,” Mohammed Taheri told Portugal’s RTP radio Wednesday.
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