TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Iran dismissed international criticism of anti-Israeli remarks by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, urging the West on Sunday to show greater tolerance for differing points of view.
Last week, Ahmadinejad called the Holocaust a ``myth'' and said if Europeans insist it did occur, then they should give some of their own land for a Jewish state, rather than the one in the Middle East. The comments came just two months after the hard-line president called for Israel to be ``wiped off the map.''
The remarks sparked outrage in Israel and the United States, and European leaders warned Saturday they would consider sanctions.
Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi said Sunday the international reaction was overblown.
``The West had a very emotional attitude about Ahmadinejad's comments. Westerners have to learn to tolerate other's opinion,'' Asefi said at a news conference.
He dismissed the European sanctions threat as ``baseless and illogical'' and said Ahmadinejad was simply articulating Iran's position toward Israel.
A fellow member state of he UN continues to call for the destruction of another member state and the UN does nothing.
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