Media: February 2006 Archives

Ahmadinejad: Israel 'will be removed'

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Tehran (dpa) - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Saturday that the Palestinians and "other nations" will eventually remove Israel from the region.

Addressing a mass demonstration in Tehran - one of many organized throughout Iran to commemorate the 27th anniversary of the Islamic revolution - he once again questioned the Holocaust "fairy tale".

By ALAN COWELL

COPENHAGEN, Feb. 1 — Broadening a debate that has set Europe against the Islamic world, several European newspapers on Wednesday reprinted cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad in an unflattering light, supporting a Danish newspaper that had inspired a huge outcry in the Islamic world by publishing them in the first place.

MPs vote to condemn 'evils of communism'

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Swedish member calls for victims' memorial day

Left says Council of Europe motion 'neo McCarthyism'

Jon Henley in Paris

Guardian

For some it was a vile capitalist plot aimed at rewriting the recent history of half of Europe, transforming wartime resistance heroes into villains, and denying the laudable ideals and legitimacy of a great political movement.

For others it was a long-overdue denunciation of a couple of dozen thoroughly evil regimes who wrecked their nations' economies, tortured their citizens, and between them were responsible for up to 100 million deaths.

Jan. 27 (Bloomberg) -- Iran said the United Nations was being ``manipulated for political purposes'' in its first official observance today of the memory of the Holocaust.

The UN's 191 member governments agreed on Nov. 1 to make Jan. 27 the annual ``International Day of Commemoration in Memory of Victims of the Holocaust.'' The decision was taken by consensus in the General Assembly, which means Iran didn't formally object or call for a vote on the resolution.

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