• Ayatollah of Iran releases video denying Holocaust on Holocaust Remembrance Day
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[QUOTE=woolio1;49624956]Huh. Looks like we don't even import oil from Iran. Ignore me, I have no idea what I'm talking about apparently.[/QUOTE] I don't think we've important Iranian oil since the revolution. Why would we? You can tell the geographical origin of oil and if a routine test found out you were sneaking in Iranian crude you'd be in a world of hurt. I think we've seized an Iranian oil tanker once and brought it to the US and claimed the cargo, but I might be mistaken. Could've been Iraqi.
nevermind
[QUOTE=GordonZombie;49625175]Anyone who denies the Holocaust (or any other well-documented genocide out there) is either an idiot, a prick or both. For fuck's sake, Jews were facing persecution even before the concentration camps were open - from Krystallnacht to legislation acted specifically against them that stripped them of property, rights ect - is it really a 'coincidence' that of the millions who died in the camps, six million of them were Jews? Hell, even Eisenhower said:[/QUOTE] I remember hearing that in Patton's diary that he rather regretted fighting the Germans, and wanted to use the remaining German forces to fight the USSR. Eisenhower later dismissed him just before he would have been sent to pacific. Then Patton mysteriously "died"
[QUOTE=MightyLOLZOR;49625903]I don't even understand how someone could deny the Holocaust. There's tons of horrific photos as proof. Hell, you can even visit Auschwitz today.[/QUOTE] The theories are pretty nonsensical. The USSR and USA did doctor and make up shit to exaggerate the horrors and that stuff is usually cited to deny the whole thing.
[QUOTE=mdeceiver79;49625115]Does holocaust refer to the mass murder in general or is it specifically in reference to the mass murder of jews?[/QUOTE] The Holocaust, with a capital H, usually refers specifically to the Jewish genocide of WWII, although some use it to refer to all civilian victims of the nazis. [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Holocaust"]Wikipedia[/URL] defines it as: [QUOTE]The Holocaust (from the Greek ὁλόκαυστος holókaustos: hólos, "whole" and kaustós, "burnt"),[2] also known as the Shoah (Hebrew: השואה, HaShoah, "the catastrophe"), was a genocide in which approximately six million Jews were killed by Adolf Hitler's Nazi regime and its collaborators.[3] Some historians use a definition of the Holocaust that includes the additional five million non-Jewish victims of Nazi mass murders, bringing the total to approximately eleven million. Killings took place throughout Nazi Germany and German-occupied territories.[4][/QUOTE] [URL="http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/holocaust"]Merriam-Webster[/URL] defines it as: [QUOTE]the Holocaust : the killing of millions of Jews and other people by the Nazis during World War II[/QUOTE] And finally [URL="http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/holocaust?s=t"]Dictionary.com[/URL]: [QUOTE](usually initial capital letter) the systematic mass slaughter of European Jews in Nazi concentration camps during World War II (usually preceded by the).[/QUOTE]
I mean... they do imprison you for questioning it
When this guy eventually kicks the bucket, who takes over? Do they have a line of succession or something? I know in Iran they have a certain problem with dangerous people other than Ayatollah holding power, but would anyone ever succeed Ayatollah?
[QUOTE=Selek;49631344]When this guy eventually kicks the bucket, who takes over? Do they have a line of succession or something? I know in Iran they have a certain problem with dangerous people other than Ayatollah holding power, but would anyone ever succeed Ayatollah?[/QUOTE] With the supressed population, i wouldnt be suprised if there is another green revolution. Iranian people are very secular, so im pretty sure they are fed up with their ridiculous conservative government
Seriously, what a dick of a person. He is the reason why countries should be wary of doing any diplomacy with Iran. He just fucks over any attempt to do good by Iran.
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