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http://www.metimes.com/storyview.php?StoryID=20070416-040306-8583r
Holocaust Web site draws thousands of Iranians
AFP
April 16, 2007
JERUSALEM -- Thousands of Iranian surfers every month visit a new Holocaust Web site in Farsi run by Israel's Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial, despite their leadership's questioning the Nazi genocide of Jews, the museum said.
Israel is Monday marking the country's annual Holocaust Remembrance Day.
The Web site was put online by Yad Vashem in Jerusalem in January, and has so far had some 25,100 visits, including 12,170 from inside Iran, spokeswoman Estee Yaari said.
It includes 20 historical chapters on World War II, the Nazi regime, the systematic killings, and photos from the Nazi death camps and ghettos.
"We believe that making credible, comprehensive information about the Holocaust available to Persian speakers can contribute to the fight against Holocaust denial," said Yad Vashem chairman Avner Shalev.
Iran's firebrand president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has branded the systematic killing of 6 million of Europe's Jews as a "myth," and last year Tehran hosted a controversial revisionist Holocaust conference, sparking an international outcry.
Shalev calls the Web site a powerful tool against Ahmadinejad's rhetoric, which has included calls for the Jewish state to be "wiped off the map."
"Ahmadinejad's Holocaust denial is especially dangerous because he wants to use it not only to diminish the existence of the Holocaust, but sees it as a method for paving the way towards the possibility of destroying Israel," Shalev said.
Although Yad Vashem generally shies from tainting its work in political tones, Shalev admits that the Farsi Web site has "an important political meaning" in Israel's dealing with the Islamic republic.
"The possibility for anybody in Iran to reach objective and balanced information in Farsi is very important ... the opposition in Iran is important and people are looking for information," Shalev said.
According to emails translated by Yad Vashem, most Iranian surfers who visit the site say they are staunch opponents of their country's leadership.
"The world should not allow people such as Ahmadinejad to fulfill their evil intentions," wrote one.
"I think you should invite the president of Iran to Yad Vashem, just to see how he will respond to this," wrote another anonymous reader.
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