Wiesenthal Center: Iranian President?s Call For Genocide Against Jewish State: ?Would Make Hitler Proud; UN Must Immediately Condemn Tehran?

October 26, 2005

WIESENTHAL CENTER: IRANIAN PRESIDENT’S CALL FOR GENOCIDE AGAINST JEWISH STATE: "WOULD MAKE HITLER PROUD; UN MUST IMMEDIATELY CONDEMN TEHRAN"

"Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's speech at the so-called ‘End To Zionism Conference’ where he called for the Jewish state to be 'wiped off the face of the map' would have made Hitler proud," said Rabbis Marvin Hier and Abraham Cooper, Dean and associate Dean, respectively, of the Simon Wiesenthal Center.

"The United Nations, which is always so quick to condemn Israel, must act immediately to censure Tehran's tyrannical regime for its call to Genocide," Hier and Cooper said in a statement from Jerusalem. "Such a threat mocks the founding principles of the United Nations that was founded to defeat the genocidal Nazi Third Reich and to ensure that no nation would ever have to face the threat of annihilation. Failure to act to protect Israel's fundamental rights in the world body will not only further embolden Tehran’s terrorist regime but calls into question the United Nation's continued raison d’etre," the rabbis continued.

"This threat is also a litmus test for the international community and should remove any doubt that the current Iranian regime is a clear and immediate threat to world peace and regional stability and must not be allowed to deploy nuclear weapons to further threaten its neighbors in the Middle East and Europe," Hier and Cooper concluded.

Photo:  Iranian students hold a poster during a conference in Tehran entitled 'The World without Zionism. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said that Israel should be "wiped off the map."

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