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Iran's Khatami: Holocaust 'historical fact'

LONDON, September 9 (IranMania) - Former Iranian President Mohammad Khatami distanced himself from current president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, by calling the Holocaust an "absolute fact" in an interview published, AFP reported.

"I believe the Holocaust is the crime of Nazism," Khatami told Time magazine.

"But it is possible that the Holocaust, which is an absolute fact, a historical fact, would be misused. The Holocaust should not be, in any way, an excuse for the suppression of Palestinian rights," he told the New York-based newsweekly.
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Bush interested in 'learning more' about Iran

LONDON, September 9 (IranMania) - US President George W Bush, striking a rare conciliatory note toward a state he has included in an "axis of evil," said late Friday that he was "interested in learning more" about Iran and its government, AFP reported.

With US diplomats trying to drum up support for new sanctions against Tehran over its nuclear program, Bush underscored the importance of channels of communication, and disclosed that he had personally signed off on granting a US visa to former Iranian president Mohammad Khatami.
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"I was interested to hear what he had to say," Bush told The Wall Street Journal in an interview. "I'm interested in learning more about the Iranian government, how they think, what people think within the government."
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