January 16, 2006	Monday	Zilhaj 15, 1426

TEHRAN, Jan 15: Iran said on Sunday it was planning to host a conference on the Holocaust, a month after the country’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad described it as a “myth”, triggering international outrage. “The foreign ministry will organise a seminar to examine the dimension of this question and its consequences,” he added, arguing it was a right to question the genocide of Jews in Europe during World War II.

“The question is to know why we can discuss everything and how some, in the name of liberty, can insult religions, prophets but not have the right to discuss a historical question of which the dimensions are not clear.”—AFP