I blame the Jooooos.
Via Politico:
Iranian State News Agency FNA is claiming that CNN fabricated President Hassan Rouhani’s remarks about the Holocaust made during an interview with Christiane Amanpour, which aired Tuesday evening.
“CNN aired its interview with Rouhani on Tuesday but the news channel added to or changed parts of his remarks when Christiane Amanpour asked him about the Holocaust,” the agency claims in a post, giving their transcription of Rouahni’s remarks.
The agency says CNN added a whole section to Rouhani’s remarks, including comments about “criminality against Jews” and about Jews taking land because of what the Nazis did in the past.
Here’s what FNA says is the exact translation of Rouhani’s answer:
I have said before that I am not a historian and historians should specify, state and explain the aspects of historical events, but generally we fully condemn any kind of crime committed against humanity throughout the history, including the crime committed by the Nazis both against the Jews and non-Jews, the same way that if today any crime is committed against any nation or any religion or any people or any belief, we condemn that crime and genocide. Therefore, what the Nazis did is condemned, but the aspects that you talk about, clarification of these aspects is a duty of the historians and researchers, I am not a history scholar.
Here’s CNN’s translation:
I have said before that I am not a historian. And that when it comes to speaking of the dimensions of the holocaust it is the historians that should reflect on it. 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. Whatever criminality they committed against the Jews, we condemn. The taking of human life is contemptible. It makes no difference whether that life is Jewish life, Christian, or Muslim. For us it is the same. The taking of human life is something our religion rejects. But 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.