Mohammed Taheri

Mohammed Taheri is the Iranian ambassador to Portugal. He became notorious for a radio interview to RDP/Antena1, on February 14, 2006 
in which he questioned the deathtoll of the Holocaust - 
"When I was ambassador in Warsaw, I visited Auschwitz and Birkenau twice and made my calculations. To incinerate 6 million people, 15 years would be necessary."
In the same interview Taheri also attributed the Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy
to an Israeli conspiracy designed to cause conflict between Muslims and Christians -
"We think that this is a conspiracy by Zionists who want to put Muslims against Christians in Europe"
he stated.Reuters, Iran's envoy to Portugal questions Holocaust, 17 April 2006.
Mr Taheri was the Iranian ambassador to Poland since 4 December 1996 and is the Iranian ambassador in Portugal since 26 February 2004
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Taheri, Mohammed