Iran to examine Holocaust evidence

IRAN is to examine the scientific evidence supporting the Holocaust, an apparent next step in hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's campaign against Israel and a move likely to deepen Tehran's international isolation.

Mr Ahmadinejad already had called the Nazis' slaughter of an estimated six million European Jews a myth and said the Jewish state should be wiped off the map or moved to Germany or the US.

Those remarks prompted a global outpouring of condemnation and Tehran further raised international concern last week when it resumed what it called "research" at its uranium enrichment facility.