Hassan Rouhani Quotes
I've said before that I am not a historian and that when it comes to speaking of the dimensions of the Holocaust, it is the historians that should reflect on it.
Rouhani, Hassan. Interview with Christiane Amanpour. CNN, Cable News Network, 24 Sept. 2013.
Auschwitz was the worst of the German Nazi WWII Death Camps where over 2 million people were murdered.
He was a viscious anti-Semite who attracted to his party extreme right wingers, Nazi Sympathers and apologists for the Vichey Franch government. The party was rejected by the majority of French voters, but when his daughter took over the party, she was not an anti Semite but foudn it hard to shake the party's image which was alaysa associated with her name even when she actually kicked her father out of the party.
His belief and that of a great number of peop[le who have studied the era was that the refusal of most countries, including the United States, to accept Jewish Refugees casueing so many to remain in Europe where they were murdered by the Nazis would have been mitgated if there were a nation that would welcome them/ While that was true certainly for the early years of the Nazi persecution, the largest number of Jews were killed when the Germans overran Poland, France, Hungary, and many other countries including Eastern Europe and Russia. But there are other scholars who believe that the Nazi hatred and feal fo Jews was so great that they would not have allowed the Jews to be gone. While namy Jews woulld have been saved were Israel in existance, there would still have been a Holocaust, only one of smaller proportions they argue.
Hassan Rouhani is an Iranian politician serving as the seventh and current President of Iran since 3 August 2013. He was also a lawyer, academic, former diplomat and Islamic cleric. He has been a member of Iran's Assembly of Experts since 1999, member of the Expediency Council since 1991, and a member of the Supreme National Security Council since 1989. Rouhani was deputy speaker of the fourth and fifth terms of the Parliament of Iran (Majlis) and Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council from 1989 to 2005. In the latter capacity, he was the country's top negotiator with the EU three, UK, France, and Germany, on nuclear technology in Iran, and has also served as a Shia mujtahid (a senior cleric), and economic trade negotiator.:138 He has expressed official support for upholding the rights of ethnic and religious minorities. In 2013, he appointed former industries minister Eshaq Jahangiri as his first vice-president.
