Iran's Decades-long History of Holocaust Denial Comes With a Dark Strategy

…“Raisi’s predecessors engaged in varying forms of denialism,” says Jason Brodsky, policy director of watchdog group United Against Nuclear Iran. “Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was the extreme in calling it a myth. [His successor] Hassan Rohani, in contrast, was more sophisticated in front of a Western audience [by calling the Holocaust] reprehensible while lacing his comments with caveats that he is not a historian and that the Holocaust was something historians should reflect on.”