Annan 'shocked' by Iran's Holocaust remarks

You know you've messed up when even Kofi Annan thinks you're a lunatic. The Iranian leadership isn't doing itself any favors by making "wet-fart-in-church" type comments like there was no Holocaust. President Ahmadinejad also seems to be failing to understand basic religious history. The facts are that Palestine was the Jewish nation and countless attempts to wipe them out have driven the jews across the world and back. It isn't a matter of just giving Jews land to have a country, it's a matter of giving them their land they lost in the first place as consolation for years of genocide besides the Holocaust. But I'm probably preaching to the choir here.

In any case, here's this rediculous story:

UN Secretary General Kofi Annan expressed shock over Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's remarks questioning the Holocaust and suggesting that the state of Israel be moved to Europe, AFP said.

"The Secretary General was shocked to see the remarks attributed to the president of the Islamic Republic of Iran, in which he reportedly cast doubt on the truth of the Holocaust and suggested that the State of Israel should be moved from the Middle East to Europe," a UN statement said.

Annan noted that only last month the UN General Assembly passed a resolution which "rejects any denial of the Holocaust as an historical event, either in full or in part".

The UN chief called on all member states "to combat such denial, and to educate their populations about the well established historical facts of the Holocaust, in which one third of the Jewish people were murdered, along with countless members of other minorities."

Annan also recalled that last October he had reminded all member states that Israel is a "long-standing UN member with the same rights and obligations as every other member", and that, under the UN Charter, "all members have pledged to refrain from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state."

Ahmadinejad's suggestion, in an interview with Iranian state television's Arabic-language satellite channel, Al-Alam, that the "tumour" of the state of Israel should be relocated to Europe, triggered new Western outcry Thursday.

The Iranian leader, who in October had said arch-enemy Israel must be "wiped off the map", said that if Germany and Austria believed Jews were massacred during World War II, a state of Israel should be established on their soil.