"The Secretary General was shocked to see the remarks attributed to the president of the Islamic Republic of Iran, in which he reportedly cast doubt on the truth of the Holocaust and suggested that the State of Israel should be moved from the Middle East to Europe," a UN statement said.
Annan noted that only last month the UN General Assembly passed a resolution which "rejects any denial of the Holocaust as an historical event, either in full or in part".
Ahmadinejad’s suggestion, in an interview with Iranian state television’s Arabic-language satellite channel, Al-Alam, that the "tumour" of the state of Israel should be relocated to Europe, triggered new Western outcry Thursday.
The mullahs’ president, who in October had said arch-enemy Israel must be "wiped off the map", said that if Germany and Austria believed Jews were massacred during World War II, a state of Israel should be established on their soil.
Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, President-elect of the Iranian Resistance, also condemned the threatening and demagogic remarks in the name of Islam and under the pretext of support for the Palestinian people by Ahmadinejad at the summit of the Organization of Islamic Conference.
She called for the expulsion of the clerical regime from the OIC. She recalled the murderous record of the mullahs against the Iranian nation and its avowed policy to export terrorism and fundamentalism to the whole region and the entire Islamic world. "Such a regime is not worthy of membership in the international community and in the OIC."