Iran calls for impartial inquiry into Holocaust

"Historical events need to be presently investigated by independent and impartial parties," he said during a press briefing in Shanghai, referring to the Holocaust, AFP said.

"A historical event that has the influence and many lasting political equations of the world needs to be investigated and researched by impartial and independent groups."

"If it is true then this question should not be solved in Palestine," he said referring to the bitter, decades-old conflict that has its roots in the partition of Palestine and the creation of the state of Israel in 1948.

Ahmadinejad, who had been attending the summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), a regional security grouping, insisted that the "problem was not the Jews", but the "Zionists, which have hidden behind Judaism".

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