TEHRAN, Sept 26: An Iranian publisher and student body has published a book of caricatures and satirical writings about the ‘fiction’ of the Holocaust, the official Iranian news agency IRNA reported on Friday.

The book, likely to draw an international outcry, has 52 caricatures plus satirical writings over 108 pages covering the “historic orientation on the Holocaust fiction and analyses of this historic distortion”, IRNA reported.

It gave few further details but Iran staged an international competition and exhibition of cartoons about the Holocaust in 2006. That contest was held in response to cartoons published in Denmark that were deemed anti-Islamic, officials had said.

“Sixty years after this (Holocaust), if anyone wants to ask a question about it, they will be suppressed through various psychological ploys no matter where they are in the world,” Jabal-Ameli, president of Tehran’s Science and Industry University, was quoted as saying.

The book was published by Martyr Shahbazi Publications and the Islamic student movement of the Science and Industry University, IRNA reported. The publication was announced to mark Qods Day, when Iran holds events in support of Palestinians. — Reuters