Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jan. 03 Irans hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told a parliamentary committee that
his remarks calling for Israel to be wiped off the map and describing the Holocaust as a myth had a profound impact
on Muslims around the world, providing a shock that was needed to awaken the Muslims who are in a state of lethargy, a government-owned news agency reported on Tuesday. Iran Focus
Tehran, Iran, Jan. 03 Irans hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told a parliamentary committee that his remarks calling for Israel to be wiped off the map and describing the Holocaust as a myth had a profound impact on Muslims around the world, providing a shock that was needed to awaken the Muslims who are in a state of lethargy, a government-owned news agency reported on Tuesday.
The president believed that there had been a positive reaction to his comments and that the Islamic world, which has been in a state of lethargy, needed a shock, Heshmatollah Felahat-Pisheh, a member of the National Security and Foreign Policy Committee of the countrys Majlis, or Parliament, told reporters after a three-hour meeting between Ahmadinejad and the committee members behind closed doors on Sunday evening. His remarks were carried by ILNA news agency.
The Iranian President, meanwhile, told a meeting of students in Tehran that he was pursuing a specific strategy in his chain of anti-Israeli and Holocaust-denying statements.
Some in Iran and abroad thought that we were making these speeches without a specific plan and policy, but we have been pursuing a specific strategy in this regard, the Iranian president told a group of Islamist student activists in a midnight meeting last week, according to the Persian-language website Khedmat, which was launched by Ahmadinejads campaign team during the presidential elections last year.
The wave [that these speeches created”> has a lot of supporters among young people in the Muslim world and it will continue to move forward, Ahmadinejad said.
