Iran to publish Holocaust cartoons

I was reading the news and...

IRAN'S largest selling newspaper announced today it was holding a contest on cartoons of the Holocaust in response to the publishing in European papers of caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed.

"It will be an international cartoon contest about the Holocaust," said Farid Mortazavi, the graphics editor for Hamshahri newspaper - which is published by Teheran's conservative municipality. He said the plan was to turn the tables on the assertion that newspapers can print offensive material in the name of freedom of expression. "The Western papers printed these sacrilegious cartoons on the pretext of freedom of expression, so let's see if they mean what they say and also print these Holocaust cartoons," he said.

news.com.au

طبق این اخبار... پر فروشترین روزنامه ایران مسابقه ای گذاشته برای چاپ بهترین دوازده کاریکاتورهایی که از کشتار یهودیان در جنگ جهانی دوم کشیده بشوند ... جایزه هم می دهند... چون... ما کم آزادی بیان ... و آزادیهای فرهنگی، اجتماعی، دینی و سیاسی... داریم... این هم به آزادیهای موجود در جامعه ایران اضافه می شود!


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...got this from one of my readers, Craig:

Of course the west will print them! The US news has been slamming the Arab press for two days over the way they portray Jews in their newspapers. The western press is going to have a field day.

The real test is going to be seeing whether any Iranian embassies get burned, no?