Whew, glad they cleared this one up.
The Washington Free Beacon notes that, in an outbreak of temporary sanity, Iranian foreign minister (and John Kerry negotiating partner) Javad Zarif asserted that the “Holocaust should not happen again” and that “the extermination of Jews by the Nazi regime was tragically cruel and should not happen again.”
Publication of these sentiments provoked great outrage in the Islamic republic and now, top Iranian officials are vehemently denying that Zarif said any such thing. According to the Iran’s state-run Fars News Agency, Zarif’s deputy, Hassan Qashqavi, insists that the reports are “not true,” and that “in a phone conversation that I had with Mr. Zarif, he completely rejected the remarks attributed to him.” Qashqavi stressed that “the Islamic republic’s stance” on Israel “has not changed” a bit from “what has been repeatedly announced by this country’s diplomacy apparatus.”
That stance, of course, is that Israel must be destroyed.
The Islamic republic regrets any confusion. We now return to the Obama administration’s regularly scheduled legitimization of a nuclear program for the world’s leading sponsor of jihadist terror.