“Western countries allow no freedom of expression, which they claim to advocate, with regard to the myth of the massacre of Jews known as the holocaust, and nobody in the West enjoys the freedom of expression to deny it or raise doubts about it. But affronting the sanctities of about 1.5 billion Muslims is permissible in the West.”

— Ali Khamenei

February 7, 2006 remarks at a reception for Air Force Servicemen http://www.leader.ir/langs/en/?p=contentShow&id=3500
2005

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