»The chilling recent declarations of Iranian President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, simultanously denying the Holocaust, and threatening ›to wipe out‹ Israel, describing it as a rotten tree or ›artificial implant‹ waiting to be ›uprooted‹ by one nuclear firestorm, graphically underline my point. However, even twenty years ago, the writing was on the wall. Already then, I had designated the fundamentalist Iran of the Ayatollah Khomeini as the most dangerous future threat to the West and the true heir of Nazi-style messianic antisemitism« (Robert Wistrich (2006a): Converging Pathologies: From Anti-Zionism to Neo-antisemitism, in: Robert Wistrich (ed.) (2006), Antisemitism International. An Annual Research Journal of the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism, p. 7). Wistrich betont, dass schon vor mehr als 20 Jahren »I emphasized the unequivocally ›exterminationist‹ character of Iranian ›anti-Zionism‹ long before attention was paid to it by so-called Middle East experts«.
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