Iranian president calls Holocaust a ‘big deception’

IRANIAN President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has once again called the Holocaust a “big deception” in his latest denunciations of Israel and its allies.

The comments come amid a fierce election campaign in which his firebrand style, including regular denunciations of Israel and the West, has come under attack from his challengers.

Ahmadinejad’s main pro-reform rival, Mir Hossein Mousavi, said the president’s constant questioning of the Holocaust has undermined Iran’s international standing.