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Sat 12 Dec 2006Iran calls for debate on HolocaustThe Holocaust is now a subject of serious debate, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said today. Iran has invited scholars from 30 countries to attend a conference starting on Monday about the Holocaust, in which six million Jews were killed by the Nazis."For 60 years talking about the Holocaust was a crime in the West but now there is a serious debate about the Holocaust in the media and also in political and popular meetings," state television quoted Mr Ahmadinejad as saying.