Devil Looks at a cold round white object and asks, "WTH is that?"

[Windigo]

www.vagazette.com/news/sns-rt-us-un-assembly-rouhani-holocaust-20130924,0,809595.story

vagazette.com

Iran's Rouhani calls Holocaust crime against Jews

Reuters

10:03 PM EDT, September 24, 2013



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UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Tuesday called the Holocaust a "reprehensible" crime committed by the Nazis against the Jewish people but said it was up to historians to determine the scale of what happened.

"I am not a historian and when it comes to speaking of the dimensions of the Holocaust it is the historians that should reflect," Rouhani told CNN when asked whether or not he believed, as did his hardline predecessor, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, that the Holocaust was a myth.

"But in general I can tell you that any crime that happens in history against humanity, including the crime the Nazis created towards the Jews, is reprehensible and condemnable," he said, according to CNN's translation of his comments, during a visit to New York to address the United Nations General Assembly.

Israeli officials had sharply criticized Rouhani, a moderate cleric who has made diplomatic overtures to the West, for failing to renounce Ahmadinejad's denial of the Holocaust, which killed 6 million Jews. Rouhani had dodged the same question in an interview last week with NBC.

"Whatever criminality they committed against the Jews we condemn," Rouhani told CNN. "The taking of human life is contemptible. It makes no difference if that life is Jewish life, Christian or Muslim. For us it is the same."

But Rouhani went on to take a swipe against Iran's archfoe Israel, which was founded after World War Two as a Jewish state in part of what had been British-mandate Palestine.

"This does not mean that on the other hand you can say 'Nazis committed crimes against a group, now therefore they must usurp the land of another group and occupy it,'" he said. "This too is an act that should be condemned. There should be an evenhanded discussion."

(Reporting by Matt Spetalnick and Yeganeh Torbati; Editing by Eric Beech)



Copyright © 2013, Reuters

[Gusington]

Hmm...what is this guy up to...

[Keunert]

i see the next Ghandi in the making.

[LongBlade]

Hmm...what is this guy up to...

Baffling us with BS.

The sanctions are really starting to bite. They want out.

[Windigo]

Hmm...what is this guy up to...

Baffling us with BS.

The sanctions are really starting to bite. They want out.

I'd guess he wants a few copies of GTA5

[Gusington]

I meant 'I wonder what Windy is up to.'

[LongBlade]

i see the next Ghandi in the making.

Do not be deceived.

The sanctions are killing the Iranian economy. They desperately want to escape them.

If they are sincere, they will cease producing uranium and will immediately allow inspectors into all of their facilities to verify that no weapons are being produced.

To the degree the Iranians stall on this request you will see the mendacity of their words.

[Windigo]

I meant 'I wonder what Windy is up to.'

In honest inches?

[GDS_Starfury]

dont you do things in milimeters

[LongBlade]

dont you do things in milimeters

I thought his petrified wood was measured in tree rings.

[Windigo]

dont you do things in milimeters

I thought his petrified wood was measured in tree rings.

"Mister Sequoia" to all my past girlfriends

[LongBlade]

dont you do things in milimeters

I thought his petrified wood was measured in tree rings.

"Mister Sequoia" to all my past girlfriends

[bayonetbrant]

that's a damn big hand!

[JasonPratt]

Maybe this is a public signal to Syria to stop gassing its people?

Rouhani's being clever otherwise to take a position that still allows him to deny it was that many Jews (if he wants to appease the deniers) while redirecting the dispute about Israel back over to more practical matters. He phrased it well, according to the underlying historical problem of the region: being slaughtered doesn't give them the right, or other people the right, to displace other people off their land. (Well, it might if the Germans were the ones being displaced. ;) )

The possible mendacity would come with his statement, "The taking of human life is contemptible. It makes no difference if that life is Jewish life, Christian or Muslim. For us it is the same."

Uh huh, who is this "us" you're claiming to speak for, Pres?

[LongBlade]

Maybe this is a public signal to Syria to stop gassing its people?

It's much simpler than that. They want the sanctions lifted - we're moving to increase them.

They want a nuke.

Simple as that.

The talking heads on TV claim Iran is getting really close. To the degree that they can prevent further sanctions they will find their lives difficult but tolerable. So the aim here is simple: don't make things worse. Improve them if they can.

There is only one thing I would talk to the Iranians about: immediately opening up their nuke program for inspection. Anything else is just BS and stalling for time.