AFP, Washington, Sept 18, 2009 – The White House condemned Friday as ’ignorant and hateful’ comments by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahamdinejad denying the Holocaust and warned they would only isolate Iran further.
’Regardless that we’ve heard that type of rhetoric before, obviously we condemn what he said, and I would point to what the president (Barack Obama) said in Cairo: denying the Holocaust is baseless, ignorant and hateful,’ said White House spokesman Robert Gibbs.
’Promoting those vicious lies serves only to isolate Iran further from the world,’ he said.
Ahmedinejad used the Quds Day rally in Tehran, an annual display of solidarity with the Palestinians, to once again lay into arch-foe Israel.
’The very existence of this regime is an insult to the dignity of the people. They (Western powers) launched the myth of the Holocaust. They lied, they put on a show and then they support the Jews,’ he said.