Iran plans to host an international Holocaust revisionism conference next week. An Iranian newspaper on Wednesday quoted a Foreign Ministry official as saying that 67 “scholars” from 30 countries will convene in Tehran next week to discuss several issues regarding the fate of the Jews during World War II, including whether the Nazis used gas chambers for mass executions.
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