Smears of a clown

Joel Rubin at Democracy Arsenal makes a good point about Ahmadinejad’s persistent holocaust denials:

Ahmadinejad is a master of distraction…Ahmadinejad is attempting to change the conversation about what’s going wrong inside of Iran by using the Holocaust as bait.  He doesn’t want to be questioned about his government’s behavior surrounding the June 12th elections, or about the show trials of political opponents underway in Tehran.  And he certainly doesn’t want to answer the hard questions being posed by the international community about his country’s nuclear intentions.

Poking his finger in the eyes of Israel and the West is also a cheap way for him to look good for the home audience.