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Speak Out Against Iran's Holocaust Denial to UN

Iran's envoy to the UN Human Rights Council has just sent the Council a letter asserting that Holocaust denial is a permissible informational and academic endeavor. Make your voice heard: Send a message to the Council President and the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights urging them to reject Iran's misuse of human rights principles to try to justify denying this historic tragedy.

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Louise Arbour - High Commissioner for Human Rights

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Luis Alfonso De Alba - Human Rights Council President

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Dear (recipient name),

Iranian Ambassador Alireza Moayeri has just sent a letter to the UN Human Rights Council asserting that his government's repeated denials of the Holocaust are justified by academic and informational freedom.  I urge you to strongly condemn this appalling misuse of the Council and of human rights principles by the Iranian regime.

Nothing could be more obscene than using the forum of the world’s foremost human rights body to question the most evil crime against humanity, the Nazi genocide of more than six million Jews, upon whose ashes the UN was founded.  Worse, this most recent outrage by the Iranian regime comes only weeks ahead of the UN's Annual International Day of Commemoration for Holocaust Victims.

Moreover, it is exceedingly ironic and the height of hypocrisy for Iran to defend its Holocaust denial by invoking freedom of opinion and expression after it has just been condemned by the UN General Assembly for repressing journalists and depriving its citizens of basic civil and political freedoms.  It is further ironic that Iran’s letter was distributed on the very same day that UN human rights experts urged Iran not to execute seven Ahwazi Arabs after a secret trial the experts called a “mockery of due process requirements.”

Both former and current Secretaries-General Annan and Ban have spoken out strongly against attempts to question the horrors of the Holocaust. Now that Iran has brought its Holocaust denials to the Human Rights Council, I urge both of you to bring your moral weight to bear and to forcefully condemn Iran's outrageous actions.

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