TEHERAN - The chief editor of the Iranian daily Hamshahri on Tuesday called on Danish newspapers to join its self-initiated international cartoon competition on the Holocaust.
"The Danish daily which insulted our prophet, as well as other Danish dailies, can attend our cartoon competition," Mohammed-Reza Zarei told reporters in Teheran.
Zarei, a cleric, said his newspaper would also be willing to print pro-Holocaust articles by the Western press if Hamshahri were to be allowed to write in Western dailies.
The chief editor claimed that the cartoon competition aimed to seek the truth about the Holocaust.
"We have the highest respect for world public opinion and in no way want to act provocatively," Zarei said.
"All we have is one question and all we want is the true reply, but we are wondering why the West is afraid to grant us even this simple demand," the chief editor said.
"If the Holocaust is proven to be a fact, even I, as a Muslim cleric, will become a defender of the Holocaust," he added.
