The Simon Wiesenthal Center urged Uruguay on Wednesday to expel an Iranian diplomat over his alleged denial of the Nazi Holocaust, AFP reported.
The report said that the US-based Jewish group group accused Iranian commercial attaché Hojjatollah Soltani of denying that six million Jews were killed in the Nazi genocide of World War II.
The center’s statement said, “Soltani offended not only the memory of the Nazis’ murdered victims, he has defamed Uruguay as the Latin American pioneer in erecting Holocaust memorials. Uruguay’s expulsion of this Iranian abuser of its tolerance and hospitality would set a historic precedent across the Americas.”