The duly hijabbed Lesley Stahl would have been much rougher on someone such as, say, Viktor Orban.
“‘Some signs’: Iran’s president casts doubt on Holocaust, calls Israel ‘false regime,’” by Michael Bachner, Times of Israel, September 19, 2022:
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi cast doubt on whether the Holocaust happened and called Israel a “false regime” in his first interview with a Western media outlet, which aired late Sunday.
Speaking with veteran US reporter Lesley Stahl on CBS’s “60 Minutes,” Raisi also said he couldn’t trust the United States in the beleaguered nuclear talks and called Washington’s sanctions “tyrannical,” as he heads to New York to take part in the UN General Assembly.
The interview with Raisi, who took power last year, was conducted last Tuesday at the presidential compound in Tehran, according to interviewer Stahl, who was wearing a headscarf. “I was told how to dress, not to sit before he did, and not to interrupt him,” she said.
CBS said that at the end of the hour-long interview, the US network’s team was surprised when “a member of Raisi’s staff reached up and blocked one of our cameramen from shooting our goodbyes.” CBS added that “another one of our cameramen’s phone was confiscated and held by President Raisi’s security team for two and a half hours.”
During the interview, Stahl asked Raisi: “Do you believe the Holocaust happened? That 6 million Jews were slaughtered?”
Raisi answered that “historical events should be investigated by researchers and historians. There are some signs that it happened. If so, they should allow it to be investigated and researched.”
Stahl then said: “So you’re not sure, I’m getting that you’re not sure.” Raisi didn’t challenge that conclusion.
Iranian leaders have a long history of Holocaust denial and Holocaust revisionism.
Asked whether he supports Israel’s right to exist, Raisi said: “You see, the people of Palestine are the reality. This is the right of the people of Palestine who were forced to leave their houses and motherland. The Americans are supporting this false regime there to take root and to be established there.”
Asked about the Abraham Accords, which have seen multiple Arab nations normalize their ties with Jerusalem, the Iranian president replied: “If a state shakes hands with the Zionist regime, then they are also an accomplice to their crimes. And they are stabbing the very idea of Palestine in the back.”
Elsewhere during the interview, Raisi said that while his country wants “justice to be served” for the killing of its Quds Force terror chief Qassem Soleimani in a US airstrike in 2020, it won’t retaliate by assassinating officials in former US president Donald Trump’s administration.
“That’s the type of the actions that the Americans and Zionist regimes are doing in the world — we are not going to carry out the same actions,” he claimed, even though the US government has charged a Revolutionary Guard member with planning such an assassination….
Infidel says
Problem is that w/ one side of their mouth, the Iranians celebrate the holocaust and only regret that Hitler didn’t complete the job, while on the other, they deny that it ever happened. Leslie, if she was intellectually honest, should have asked him whether he thinks that Hitler should have completed the job, whether he did enough or whether he should have done it at all
gravenimage says
This is *very* common, Infidel.
somehistory says
Yes, she should have asked what he thought of hitler…and if he would like to see another hitler take charge in germany.
gravenimage says
60 Minutes complies with Sharia rules to get interview with Iran’s Raisi, gives him time to doubt the Holocaust
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Just appalling. Not even a warning that this is bs. As if the Holocaust has never been studied!
Odd how many Holocaust deniers want to see more of the same that Hitler dished out–or maybe not…Iran is always threatening to wipe Israel off the map.
Scotsman48 says
I have to wonder why they blocked the filming of their goodbyes.
I would like to think she shook his hand after she threw off her head rag but I guess thats me just dreaming again.
She was so much more disrespectful to President Trump and interrupted him constantly even to the point of telling him that what he is saying is just not true when he told her the DemocRATS spied on his campaign.
60 Mins was once upon a time such a good show…
Now just like the rest of the MSM they suck big time as they are STILL going on about Trump and he doesnt even hold a political Office… as yet…
alexreid says
Have you ever seen such hypocrites? Not so long ago, there was a major Commemorative Service held at Auschwitz Senior European Leaders, Foreign Ambassadors, the lot. Of course Muslim Religious Leaders had.to wangle their way into it. One of these leaders said in his speech, quote, ” We were victims to you know.”
Arab Muslim contribution was to aid the Rommel’s Afrika Corps as much as possible & massacre Jews in the Middle East. The Grand Mufti of Palestine, al-Husseini, spent 99% of the war in Berlin. Using Balkan Muslims, he formed two Divisions for the Waffen SS.
Liars & hypocrites these people are.
somehistory says
they always claim to be victims…and since they didn’t get to take control of germany afterward, they had to whine now that they were the victims. But, none of it happened when they are in the mood for denial.
somehistory says
The cnn woman amonpour, born in tehran, refused to put on a scarf. she was *asked* to do so :”out of respect”….and she said No.
No respect should be shown to the mozlum murdering liars. None, ever. But esp not when they are murdering women just because they aren’t wearing scarves…or because they want to murder someone.
Amanpour said that he didn’t want to be seen with her without one when women in iran were being murdered because they resisted the wearing. It would send the wrong message to his cohorts and the population of his country if he sat with her and she had her hair showing.
Wonder what questions she would have asked.