US, UN condemn Iranian leader’s Holocaust comments

Comments by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad expressing doubt about the Holocaust and suggesting Israel be moved to Europe are appalling and reprehensible, the U.S. State Department said on Thursday. “These latest remarks … are clearly appalling and reprehensible. They certainly don’t inspire hope among any of us in the international community that the government of Iran is prepared to engage as a responsible member of that community,” deputy spokesman Adam Ereli said.

It’s one thing for the US State Department of make such a comment, but it’s an event of another magnitude when it comes from the UN (dis)Organization. With the cold weather that most of the country has been having this week, apparently some of the thermal deficit has reached down to hell, given that the recent remarks of Irans Ismlamofascist president have proven to be so over the top that even Kofi-cup Annan at the UN has spoken up on the side of rationality for a change.

At the United Nations in New York, Secretary-General Kofi Annan expressed shock at the comments attributed to Ahmadinejad, his spokesman Stephane Dujarric said. Annan noted the U.N. General Assembly last month passed a resolution rejecting “any denial of the Holocaust as an historical event, either in full or in part.” He said all nations should educate their populations about the Holocaust in which “one third of the Jewish people were murdered, along with countless members of other minorities.”

Amazing, at first glance, but then again – as noted previously, a good chunk of the UN slush-fund budget is on the edge of being held up in the US Congress.