HOLOCUST ISSUE IN IRAN
A group of Iranians visit the Holocaust International Cartoon contest exhibition in Tehran, Iran on August 14, 2006. The contest is sponsored by Tehran's Hamshahri Newspaper and is aimed at testing how committed Europeans were to the concept freedom of expression. This contest comes months after a Danish paper published satirical cartoons of the Islamic Prophet Muhammad. (UPI Photo/Mohammad Kheirkhah)
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