Foreign Affairs: Chaos and Crackdown in Tehran [News Bits]

An Iranian-American friend of mine recently returned from a trip to her home country. She told me at one party she was the only person there who challenged a Holocaust denier. It was probably apathy more than anything else that kept everyone else at the party silent, but still it's troubling that someone would feel comfortable enough to express those kinds of sentiments in public there.

My friend said she got too flustered to argue effectively. I told her what she ought to do is send him links of footage about the Holocaust. Still, the guy will probably say it's fake. She said Iranians really have no reason to have any resentment against Israel or the Jewish people. It's just nonsense drummed up by A-jad. It's too bad he seems to be keeping the upper hand.