In this case, its an advisor to the President of Iran:
“On a visit to Gilan University, president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad?s advisor Mohammad Ali Ramin said to a group of students in the town of Rasht, ‘Ten years ago, when I brought up the issue of the Holocaust for the first time in this country, my goal was to defend the Jewish people. But among the Jews there have always been those who killed God?s prophets and who opposed justice and righteousness. Throughout history, this religious group has inflicted the most damage on the human race, while some of its groups engaged in plotting against other nations and ethnic groups to cause cruelty, malice and wickedness.’
“‘Historically, there are many accusations against the Jews. For example, it was said that they were the source for such deadly disease as the plague and typhus. This is because the Jews are very filthy people. For a time people also said that they poisoned water wells belonging to Christians and thus killed them,’ Ramin said.
“Ramin also pointed that there were other plots that powerful people used to mislead public opinion around the world. ‘When the Islamic Revolution of Iran succeeded and attracted many people around the world, including Christians, the AIDS epidemic came about, and fear again overtook the world. After the September 11 attacks, the deadly epidermis broke out, which was destroyed when the U.S. invaded Afghanistan. On the eve of the invasion of Iran, SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome) illness broke out, but disappeared after the invasion,’ he said.”
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“Ramin also claimed that the spread of bird flu was a conspiracy plot cause[d] by the failure of America, Israel and Britain in the Middle East. Ramin pointed out that to cover up and hide their failures, these countries have spread the news about the bird flu to preoccupy and distract public opinion for some 5 to 6 months. ‘Nobody asks how a bird that had the flu could fly from Australia to Siberia,’ he said, adding that even the Iranian minister of health had claimed to have stopped the disease at Iran?s borders. He claimed the holocaust story and bird flu rumors are interrelated. He attributed the killing of millions of chicken was to control the price and amount [of] chicken in the market.”
Talk about history repeating itself.
H/T: Andrew Sullivan
