Iranian president says Holocaust is 'myth'

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said today the Holocaust is a “myth” that Europeans have used to create a Jewish state in the heart of the Islamic world.

Speaking to thousands of people in the south-eastern city of Zahedan, Ahmadinejad said: “Today, they have created a myth in the name of Holocaust and consider it to be above God, religion and the prophets.”