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Iran to publish Holocaust cartoons From: Agence France-Presse From correspondents in Tehran February 07, 2006 IRAN'S largest selling newspaper announced today it was holding a contest on cartoons of the Holocaust in response to the publishing in European papers of caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed. 'It will be an international cartoon contest about the Holocaust,' said Farid Mortazavi, the graphics editor for Hamshahri newspaper - which is published by Teheran's conservative municipality. He said the plan was to turn the tables on the assertion that newspapers can print offensive material in the name of freedom of expression. 'The Western papers printed these sacrilegious cartoons on the pretext of freedom of expression, so let's see if they mean what they say and also print these Holocaust cartoons,' he said. Iran's fiercely anti-Israeli regime is supportive of so-called Holocaust revisionist historians, who maintain the systematic slaughter by the Nazis of mainland Europe's Jews as well as other groups during World War II has been either invented or exaggerated. Iran's hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad prompted international anger when he dismissed the systematic slaughter by the Nazis of mainland Europe's Jews as a 'myth' used to justify the creation of Israel. Advertisement: Mr Mortazavi said tomorrow's edition of the paper will invite cartoonists to enter the competition, with 'private individuals' offering gold coins to the best 12 artists - the same number of cartoons that appeared in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten. Last week, the Iranian foreign ministry also invited British Prime Minister Tony Blair to Teheran to take part in a planned conference on the Holocaust, even though the idea has been branded by Mr Blair as 'shocking, ridiculous, stupid'. Mr Blair also said Mr Ahmadinejad 'should come and see the evidence of the Holocaust himself in the countries of Europe', to which Iran responded by saying it was willing to send a team of 'independent investigators'.

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HOW DARE THEY!!! This is just not acceptable!!why are they picking on the jews??? The holocaust was the murder and dehumanizing of innocent people, not someone making fun of religion!! I have to say if these cartoons are published there will be blood on the streets!!its an outrage,how low will some people go!!!