Iranian Satirical Book On Holocaust, Featuring Cartoons, To Be Unveiled To Mark International Qods (Jerusalem) Day

A “Holocaust" book featuring cartoons and satirical texts is to be unveiled in Tehran's Qods Square, during a ceremony attended by Iranian Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance Mohammad Hossein Saffar-Harandi, to mark International Qods (Jerusalem) Day, September 26.

Afshin Parvinkar, a founding member of the Martyr Shahbazi Cultural Institute, said that the book deals with the paradoxes as well as the distortions before, after, and concurrent with the Holocaust, in a satirical manner.

He said, "According to us, holocaust is a great historical distortion, and it is the Zionists who present the statistics."

Seven thousand copies of the 100-page book will be published by the Martyr Shahbazi Cultural Institute, which is affiliated with the Elm-o-San'at (science and technology) University's Students Basij.

Source: IRNA, Iran, September 24, 2008

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