Iran’s government spokesman on Tuesday branded the Holocaust a “big lie” created to place the Islamic republic’s arch-foe Israel in the Middle East, the state IRNA news agency reported.
“The Holocaust is a concept coming from a big lie in order to settle a rootless regime in the heart of the Islamic world,” Gholam Hossein Elham told a conference on Gaza in central Iran’s religious

Russian TV aired a video showing youths disrupting the peace at a Jewish cemetery in Nizhny Novgorod, and attempting to dislodge fences surrounding the graves. The local police have launched an investigation in to the matter following the release of the movie.

The youths can be seen running through the cemetery, at one point bending over, apparently to spit on one of the graves. They have also been