GENEVA (AP) — A day after Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad caused an uproar with a speech attacking Israel at a U.N. conference on racism, the U.N. said Tuesday that Ahmadinejad had actually dropped language from the speech that described the Holocaust as “ambiguous and dubious.” The U.N. and the Iranian Mission in Geneva didn’t comment on why the change was made. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said he met with the Iranian president before his speech Monday and reminded him the U.N. had adopted resolutions “to revoke the equation of Zionism with racism and to reaffirm the historical facts of the Holocaust.”
Ahmadinejad retracts Holocaust denial
April 20, 2009