Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is the former president of Iran, who served from 2005 to 2013. He is notorious for his extreme language, including calling for Israel to be “wiped from the map,” and his promotion of Holocaust denial. Ahmadinejad convened a global conference devoted to Holocaust denial and anti-Zionism in Tehran in early December 2006, which drew Holocaust deniers from around the world, including Robert Faurisson, David Duke and Bradley Smith.

In his words:

• “The Zionist regime's establishment was based on numerous deceptions and lies, and one of the biggest lies was the Holocaust.” - August 26, 2011 Speech at Tehran University on Al Quds Day
• "They (the Western powers) launched the myth of the Holocaust. They lied, they put on a show and then they support the Jews…. The pretext for establishing the Zionist regime is a lie... a lie which relies on an unreliable claim, a mythical claim” - September 18, 2009 Speech at Al Quds Day rally in Tehran
• "After the Second World War, [Western governments] created a scenario called 'pogrom against Jews.' All over Europe and the countries under Western rule, an anti-Jewish movement has been concocted. The climate of propaganda and psychological warfare on the one hand and on the other hand using the issue of ovens burning human beings, they have concocted a myth of deprivation and innocence for the Jews of Europe. They use this pretext of the innocence of Jews and the suffering of some Jews during the Second World War. Riding on the crest of a wave of anti-Jewish sentiments, they have laid the foundations for the Zionist regime." - October 5, 2007 Quds Day Speech