Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad accused his political rivals in the upcoming presidential elections of slandering using propaganda methods reminicient of those employed by Adolf Hitler. Ahmadinejad has denied the Holocaust on many occasions, most recently last week at a campaign speech when he called the Holocaust a "big deception”.
During a rally in Tehran today, Ahmadinejad threatened his main rival, the reformist candidate and former president Mirhussein Moussawi, that he his likely to be thrown in jail for insulting the current government. Moussawi and two other candidates have accused the president of lying about the country’s financial situation which is suffering from run away inflation and reduced income from oil sales. Said Ahmadinejad, “This is a crime. Someone insulting the president should be punished, and the punishment should be jail.”