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 Support The DrudgeReport; Visit Our Advertisers  Berlin calls in Iranian diplomat over president's remarks Wed Dec 14 2005 09:26:48 ET The German government has called in an Iranian diplomat to protest against Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's verbal attacks on Israel, Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said on Wednesday. He described the hardline Iranian president's remarks denying the Holocaust and suggesting Israel should be relocated to Europe as "shocking and totally unacceptable". Steinmeier told journalists that, in the absence of the Iranian ambassador, the government on Monday called in Iran's charge d'affaires in Germany to signal its disapproval of the president's latest outburst. The Islamic republic leader in October said Israel "must be wiped off the map" and last week described the country as a "tumour" and said it should be moved to Germany or Austria. He launched a fresh attack on Wednesday, dismissing the Holocaust as a "myth" and saying the Jewish state should be moved as far away as Alaska. "They have invented a myth that Jews were massacred and place this above God, religions and the prophets," the outspoken president said in a speech live on state television. The president of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, Paul Spiegel, on Wednesday called Ahmadinejad's latest remarks "repulsive" |
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