Iran hosts anti-Zionist

Tehran - Mr Roger Garaudy (84), a French Muslim writer who has questioned the Holocaust, was the keynote speaker at a seminar…

Tehran - Mr Roger Garaudy (84), a French Muslim writer who has questioned the Holocaust, was the keynote speaker at a seminar sponsored by Iran's Foreign Ministry yesterday, Iranian television said.

He attacked the western world and the United States especially as beholden to Israeli interests. "People in the West can condemn their highest leaders but they don't have the right to utter one critical word about the Zionist regime," he said, according to Iranian television.

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