FM: Iran to Prevent Zionist Attempts at Spreading Iranophobia
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Iranian foreign minister underlined that Tehran will never allow the Zionist regime of Israel to instigate Iranophobia in the world under the pretext that Iran is denying the Holocaust.
In an address to an open session of the Iranian parliament on Tuesday, Mohammad Javad Zarif lashed out at the Israeli regime for its propaganda campaign to demonize the Islamic Republic.
“Iran is an independent, mighty and stable country, but widespread propaganda and political activities are underway to portray Iran as a threat to the region and the global peace and security,” he explained.
He stated that “ill-wishers of the Iranian nation” have mounted a massive propaganda campaign to represent Iran as a global threat in order to achieve their vicious objectives against the Iranian nation and the regional revolutionary nations and anti-Israel resistance front.
Zarif made it clear that Tel Aviv seeks to provoke anti-Iran sentiments by resorting to the unsubstantiated claim that Tehran denies the Holocaust.
“(Israeli Prime Minister) Netanyahu shamelessly raises hue and cry that Iran is denying the Holocaust and says that Holocaust-denying Iran is after creating another Holocaust by producing an atomic bomb,” he noted.
Zarif also pledged that during his term as Iran’s foreign minister he will continue efforts to counter the Zionist-fomented misgivings about Iran’s denial of the Holocaust .
The foreign ministry will not allow the Zionists’ propaganda machine to portray Israel as a victim and to instill fear for Iran, Zarif stressed.
In September 2013, Foreign Minister Zarif had announced that Tehran condemns killing of Jews by Nazis but at the same time stressed that the Holocaust has become a pretext for Zionists to violate the rights of Palestinian nation.
Speaking to Tasnim News Agency at the time, Zarif stated that Iran always condemns any kind of massacre of mankind.
“We condemn killing of Jews by Nazis, in the very same way that we condemn massacre and suppression of Palestinians by Zionists.”
He stated that Iran will not allow Zionists to take advantage of the Holocaust for hiding their crimes, and added, “The Holocaust crime turned into a pretext which Zionists used 60 years ago to portray themselves as victims and provoke sympathy in the world in a bid to plunder the rights of Palestinian nation."