Iranian politics are quite strange...
After being quoted by the Israeli newspaper
Yediot Aharonot as being critical of a Holocaust-denial conference held in Tehran, former Iranian president Mohammad Khatami disavowed the quote, according to
Agence France-Presse:
"I never gave any interview to any Israeli newspaper and the comments attributed to me have been made up," Khatemi's spokesman Mohammad Ali Abtahi quoted the former president as saying.
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Abtahi told AFP in Tehran that Khatemi considered the article to be nothing more than "machinations by the Israeli media".
Just in case you were wondering, this is the same Mohammad Khatami that was present with Sen. John Kerry while the Massachusetts senator made his
latest stupid remarks... (see previous post)