Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad recently related to the German people that he didn’t view the holocaust as an issue and they shouldn’t be concerned about it. Read about it below.

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Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Iranian President Ahmadinejad was recently interviewed by Germany’s Der Spiegel. In the interview, he reached out to the German people suggesting that shouldn’t have to support the ‘unnatural Zionist state’. When pressed by the interviewer, he evaded the questions, stating that the ‘controversy’ over the Holocaust was more deep-seated and ‘the holocaust is not an issue’ for the German people.

SPIEGEL: You have become one of the most powerful political players in the region because you have become a champion of the Palestinian cause.

Ahmadinejad: We are defending more than the basic rights of oppressed Palestinians. Our proposal for resolving the Middle East conflict is that the Palestinians should be allowed to decide their own future in a free referendum. Do you think it right that some European countries and the United States support the occupying regime and the unnatural Zionist state, but condemn Iran, merely because we are defending the rights of the Palestinian people?

SPIEGEL: You are talking about Israel, a member of the United Nations that has been recognized worldwide for many decades. What would you do if a majority of the Palestinians voted for a two-state solution, that is, if they recognized Israel’s right to exist?

Ahmadinejad: If that were what they decided, everyone would have to accept this decision…

SPIEGEL: …and you too would have to recognize Israel, a country that you have said, in the past, you would like to “wipe off the map.” Please tell us exactly what you said and what you meant by it.

Ahmadinejad: Let me put it this way, facetiously: Why did the Germans cause so much trouble back then, allowing these problems to arise in the first place? The Zionist regime is the result of World War II. What does any of this have to do with the Palestinian people? Or with the Middle East region? I believe that we must get to the root of the problem. If one doesn’t consider the causes, there can be no solution.

SPIEGEL: Does getting to the root of the problem mean wiping out Israel?

Ahmadinejad: It means claiming the rights of the Palestinian people. I believe that this is to everyone’s benefit, to that of America, Europe and Germany. But didn’t we want to discuss Germany and German-Iranian relations?

SPIEGEL: That’s what we are talking about. The fact that you deny Israel’s right to exist is of critical importance when it comes to German-Iranian relations.

Ahmadinejad: Do you believe that the German people support the Zionist regime? Do you believe that a referendum could be held in Germany on this question? If you did allow such a referendum to take place, you would discover that the German people hate the Zionist regime.

SPIEGEL: We are confident that this is not the case.

Ahmadinejad: I do not believe that the European countries would have been as indulgent if only one-hundredth of the crimes that the Zionist regime has committed in Gaza had happened somewhere in Europe. Why on earth do the European governments support this regime? I have already tried to explain this to you once before…

SPIEGEL: …when we argued about your denial of the Holocaust three years ago. After the interview, we sent you a film by SPIEGEL TV about the extermination of the Jews in the Third Reich. Did you receive the DVD about the Holocaust, and did you watch it?

Ahmadinejad: Yes, I did receive the DVD. But I did not want to respond to you on this question. I believe that the controversy over the Holocaust is not an issue for the German people. The problem is more deep-seated than that. By the way, thank you once again for coming. You are Germans, and we think very highly of the Germans.

The interview goes on in the direction of Iran’s new relationship with the United States through the new American President. Ahmadinejad praises Obama for reaching out to Iran.

“Great things are happening in the United States. I believe that the Americans are in the process of initiating important developments.”

Of course, he didn’t let the opportunity to criticize former President George W. Bush who didn’t cater to Ahmadinejad’s hard line islamic regime. Again, he’s referring to the video Obama sent to Iran shortly after his inauguration.

In one segment of his speech, he says that a nation’s standing in the world does not depend solely on weapons and military strength, which is precisely what we told the previous American administration. George W. Bush’s big mistake was that he wanted to solve all problems militarily.

He also takes no responsibilty for tensions between the United States and Iran, nor for his defiance of the United Nations.

If we intend to resolve the problem between our two countries, it is important to recognize that Iran did not play a role in the development of this problem. The behavior of American administrations was the cause. If the behavior of the United States changes, we can expect to see important progress.

And … he denies Iran has anything to do with global terrorism.

First of all: We do not commit terror, but we are victims of terror. After the revolution, our president and prime minister were killed in a bombing attack in the building adjacent to my office. Our faith forbids us from engaging in terrorism. And when it comes to the constructive contributions we are being asked to make, we have contributed to stabilization in both Afghanistan and Iraq in recent years.

I suppose those aren’t Iranian soldiers and weapons that have been used against our Soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan all these years. I suppose its not Iran that has been helping Syria and North Korea with development of their weapons and supplying weapons and money to Hezbollah and Hamas in their constant terrorism against the civilians of Israel.

While Ahmadinejad weaves his tales and tells his lies, his country is getting ever closer to having their own nuclear weapons. All he has to do is buy them time, and I suppose that’s just what he’s doing.