A “Zionist plot” was behind the publication of Muhammad cartoons in a Danish newspaper
In 2006, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei said a "Zionist plot" was responsible for the controversial publication of cartoons of Muhammad in a Danish newspaper: “The freedom of speech about which the [Westerners] talk so much does not permit anyone to doubt the myth about the massacre of the Jews, known as the Holocaust… I assume that a profound Zionist plot is at the core of the matter. They are setting the Muslims and Christians against one another.