Welcome to Middle East Analyst

Middle East Analyst is a subsidiary of The Middle East Economic and Political Analysis Company (meepas). Its main goal is to analyse contemporary political and economic affairs of the region. RSS Subscribe to RSS

Posts Tagged ‘holocaust’

Why Iran’s Khamenei resorts to Holocaust denial

On the International Day of Holocaust, Iran’s supreme leader released a video questioning the Holocaust.

What is the domestic reason behind such a move?

My latest article explains:

http://www.middleeasteye.net/columns/why-irans-khamenei-resorts-holocaust-denial-2079267545


Comments Off on Why Iran’s Khamenei resorts to Holocaust denial
RSS Subscribe to the comments for this post
Posted on : Jan 29 2016
Tags: , ,
Posted under Middle East |

Ahmadinejad’s Holocaust Remarks Backfire At Home

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s holocaust denial may have grabbed the headlines abroad.
However in Iran, they have backfired.
Some Iranian presidential candidates, instead of denying the holocaust, are now actually confirming it.
More amazing is the fact that some of his right wing allies are so furious about the publicity which he has given to this tragedy, that they have accused him of being a closet Jew.

The article below by Meir Javedanfar, published in the Guardian explains more:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/apr/22/ahmadinejad-holocaust-racism


Comments Off on Ahmadinejad’s Holocaust Remarks Backfire At Home
RSS Subscribe to the comments for this post
Posted on : Apr 30 2009
Tags: , , , , , ,
Posted under Iran-Foreign Policy |


Warning: Unknown: open(/home/content/12/11601212/tmp/sess_j9ahfpkbgj3ggaoon7kn0pm8k3, O_RDWR) failed: No such file or directory (2) in Unknown on line 0

Warning: Unknown: Failed to write session data (files). Please verify that the current setting of session.save_path is correct () in Unknown on line 0