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(MEMRI) — For years, the Iranian regime has used Holocaust denial as a key means of challenging the establishment of the State of Israel, thereby denying its right to exist. The regime has promoted this policy in statements by its senior officials, by enlisting government media organs, and through a range of web-based activities. For example, at a 2009 conference in Tehran in support of the Palestinians, Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei linked these two issues by saying that “the Zionists occupied Palestine under the pretext of the Holocaust,” and complained that the Western governments and the Western and Zionist media tolerated no questions about the truth of the Holocaust: “The intolerance shown by the Western and Zionist media and pro-Zionist governments toward even the mere posing of any question concerning the Holocaust — which served as an excuse for the usurpation of Palestine — and research on the topic, is one of the signs of [the West’s] nervousness and uncertainty.”. . .

According to the book, Nazi Germany persecuted the Jews in retaliation for the war that the wealthy Communist Jews launched as early as 1933: “Prior to the outbreak of World War II in 1939, few Jews were arrested. They were arrested not because they were Jewish but because they were Communist terrorists. . . The first hostile move [between the sides] was by the Jews, and in 1933, when [Hitler] rose to power, the wealthy Jews worldwide imposed economic sanctions against Germany. Thus, it was the Jews who declared war on Germany and did everything [possible] to damage its economy, and the measures taken against them in Nazi Germany were mere retaliation.”

In response to the question, “Were the Jews arrested and placed in concentration camps because of their racial or religious identity?” the author writes: “No. Communism was a Jewish philosophy, and the Soviet Union was seen as a country ruled by Jews. At the outset of the war between Germany and the Soviet Union, the Nazis considered the Jews actual enemies capable of sabotaging Germany’s efforts, due to their partiality to the Soviet Union.” The book stresses that concentration camps were not unique to Germany: “After the [outbreak of] war with Japan, the Americans likewise quickly gathered Americans of Japanese origin, holding them in concentration camps like those of Germany. The Americans, too, considered citizens of Japanese origin to be actual enemies, and quickly arrested them, while the Nazis’ arrest of Jews was an extremely slow process.”