Hate speech at Auckland Mosque by Hormoz Ghahremani of Iranian Embassy
Channel: The BFD
Date: 29/10/2017

A disturbing hate-speech-laden video has emerged, from a mosque in Pakuranga, Auckland, which promotes Holocaust denial and calls for the destruction of Israel.

The remarks were made by a diplomat and counsellor at the Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran in New Zealand, Mr Hormoz Ghahremani (pictured above), together with an Iranian cleric, Sheik Shafie, and a New Zealand Muslim leader, Sayed Taghi Derhami. Mr Ghahremani was introduced at the event as the First Secretary of the Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran, New Zealand.  

The video, from June 2017, is from the Islamic Ahlulbayt Foundation of New Zealand event, held in Auckland in commemoration of Al-Quds day. This commemoration was described in the video by the Wellington-based Iranian diplomat as “a symbolic day of unity of Muslims against Israel” and by Sheik Shafie as a chance to “deal a powerful punch to the mouth of the cancerous tumour known as evil Israel”.