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Iran Invoked at Holocaust Remembrance

Israel's consul general in New York said Sunday that the world needs to take a tougher stance with Iran and warned that a "strong" and "determined" Israel will never allow another Jewish Holocaust.

[...] pledged a commitment to keeping nuclear weapons out of the hands of the president of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who denies the Holocaust and has repeatedly expressed his desire for Israel’s destruction.

“This is not an Israeli issue,” the consul general of Israel, Arye Mekel, told more than 1,000 attendees at a Holocaust Remembrance Day event at Hunter College. “This is a world problem. The world must stop Iran.”

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