A LEADING Iranian newspaper is to hold a competition for cartoons on the Holocaust in what it calls a test of whether the West extends the principle of freedom of expression to the Nazi genocide as it did to the caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed.

The West’s publication of the Prophet Mohammed cartoons was an Israeli conspiracy motivated by anger over Hamas’ win in the Palestinian elections, Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said today.

A prominent Iranian newspaper says it is going to hold a competition for cartoons on the Holocaust to test whether the West will apply the principle of freedom of expression to the Nazi genocide against Jews as it did to the caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed.