(14 Dec 2006)
1. Anti-zionist Orthodox Jews entering the meeting room, meeting Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
2. Mid of Ahmadinejad kissing Orthodox Jew
3. Wide of meeting room
4. Pull out from Orthodox Jews to meeting room
5. Close of Ahmadinejad
6. Various of meeting room
STORYLINE:
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad met anti-Zionist Orthodox jews on Thursday in Tehran, the same week Iran hosted a Holocaust conference attended by deniers, sceptics and historians from around the world, including former US Ku Klux Clan leader David Duke.
The Tehran conference, which took place on Monday and Tuesday, was touted by participants and organisers as an exercise in academic free expression, a chance to openly consider whether 6 (m) million Jews really died in the Holocaust away from laws in several European countries that ban questioning some details of the Nazi genocide during World War II.
At the conference Ahmadinejad announced that the conference had decided to set up a "fact-finding commission" to determine whether the
Holocaust happened or not, as well as predicting that Israel will be "wiped out", a phrase he first used in a speech in October, provoking international criticism.
Some Orthodox Jews told the conference on Tuesday they objected to what they called Zionists' "shocking treatment" of Palestinians.
The Tehran gathering coincided with an independently convened academic conference on the Holocaust in Berlin, Germany, where historians affirmed the accuracy of the Nazi genocide data and questioned the motives of those behind the Tehran forum.
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