Iran Focus: London, Dec. 09 – The United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan said on Thursday that he was “shocked” by remarks by Iran’s hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad who denied that the Holocaust took place and called for the state of Israel to be moved from the Middle East to Europe.

Iran Focus: London, Dec. 09 – The United States was on Thursday quick to condemn anti-Semitic comments by the hard-line Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

AFP: Democratic Senator John Kerry on Thursday denounced remarks by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad questioning the Holocaust and suggesting that Israel should be relocated to Austria or Germany.

AFP: Austrian Chancellor Wolfgang Schuessel on Thursday sharply denounced hardline Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s suggestion that Israel be moved to Austria or Germany.

AFP: German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Thursday said Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s combative suggestion that Israel should be relocated to Austria or Germany was “totally unacceptable”.

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Dec. 08 – Britain, who currently holds the European Union’s rotating Presidency, condemned on Thursday remarks by hard-line Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad rejecting that the Holocaust had taken place and calling for Israel to be moved to Europe.