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In an attempt to challenge Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmedinajad’s call to wipe Israel off the map, the Israeli Holocaust Museum Yad Vashem has launched a website in Farsi, targeting the Iranian people in their own language with a more moderate message. But will the museum be able to convince the more than 60 milion inhabitants of a country, who’s leader simply calls the holocaust a myth?

Read full article (ABC News, April 14, 2007)
Website of Yad Vashem (in Farsi)

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