MEMRI Special Dispatch | No. 2095 | October 27, 2008
Iran/Antisemitism Documentation Project
Iranian News Channel IRINN Reports on Newly Published Iranian Book On "The
Great Distortion Of The Historical Event Called The Holocaust, Using The Art
Of Satire"

On September 26, 2008, the Iranian news channel IRINN reported on the
publication, in Iran, of a 100-page book of cartoons on the Holocaust, which
it billed as "tak[ing] a critical look at the great distortion of the
historical event called the Holocaust, using the art of satire." The report
included comments by an Iranian university chancellor, the book's
cartoonist, and an Iranian cultural expert.

The news story also explained that the book "is an effort to expose the need
to research the event of the Holocaust."

The following is the transcript of the report.

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Voiceover: "The book Holocaust takes a critical look at the great distortion
of the historical event called the Holocaust, using the art of satire. The
book describes the history of the Holocaust and its obvious contradictions,
by means of cartoons and satirical writing. It raises questions about the
Zionist claims that six million Jews were murdered by the German Nazis
during World War II."

Mohammad Saeed Jabalameli, chancellor of Iran University of Science and
Technology: "In order to question the Holocaust, experts needed to conduct
studies, but the important thing is that fundamental questions have arisen
in recent years: If the Holocaust is indeed a historical event that really
took place, why don't they allow this issue to be investigated? Why don't
they let academic circles investigate this issue? This alone is an
indication that it is a fabrication, with no historical validity."

Mazyar Bijani, the book's cartoonist: "[The book] contains 52 cartoons,
accompanied by historical satirical writing, regarding the way the Holocaust
issue arose and became connected to Palestine. The way they managed to link
Palestine to the 'genocide' of the Jewish people in Europe constitutes, in
our opinion, dark satire. There is no connection between them."

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Voiceover: "The 100-page Holocaust book has been released in 7,000 copies."

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Parvin Pour, Iranian cultural affairs expert: "Mr. Mazyar Bijani, our
country's talented cartoonist, drew the cartoons in the book, and the
writing is by Mr. Omid Mehdinejad, one of our talented poets and satirist."

Voiceover: "The Holocaust is a pretext of the Zionists to occupy the land of
the oppressed, fighting people of Palestine. The Holocaust book is an effort
to expose the need to research the event of the Holocaust."

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