The Iranian president’s latest Holocaust denial drew international condemnation and led the United States and Germany to call into question Iran’s nuclear plans. “Today, they have created a myth in the name of the Holocaust and consider it to be above God, religion and the prophets,” Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Wednesday in a speech in the southeastern city of Zahedan. Germany, one of three European nations trying to work out a compromise that would allow Iran to continue its nuclear research, said those talks were now in question.
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