December 15, 2005
The head of the European Commission, José Manuel Durão Barroso, has attacked Iran's president Mahmud Ahmadinejad's latest comments on Jews, saying Iranians deserved a better leader. In an escalating war of words between the European Union and Iran's new hard-line president, Barroso said that Ahmadinejad's comments underlined the dangers of Iran developing nuclear weapons. "This shows the nature of the regime in that country," Barroso told reporters in Brussels. "With the great respect I have for that country, that people, the great history of that country, I say they do not have the president, or the regime, they deserve." In his latest attack on Israel's right to exist, Ahmadinejad had told a crowed of thousands in southeastern Iran that the Holocaust was a "myth”.
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