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Castro Blasts Ahmadinejad as Anti-Semitic

Sep 8, 2010 – 7:44 AM
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Lauren Frayer

Lauren Frayer Contributor

(Sept. 8) -- Iran's firebrand president is getting some surprise criticism from a fellow anti-American agitator -- Fidel Castro.

The Cuban leader blasted Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for denying the Holocaust and making anti-Semitic comments, according to a blog by a reporter for The Atlantic magazine. Writer Jeffrey Goldberg describes three days of interviews with Castro, who invited him to Havana after reading one of his previous articles about Iran and Israel.

Castro "repeatedly returned to his excoriation of anti-Semitism," and said Iran could promote peace by "trying to understand why Israelis fear for their existence," Goldberg wrote Tuesday.

The 84-year-old former revolutionary, who has long advocated global nuclear disarmament, also criticized Iran for trying to boost its nuclear capabilities. "This problem is not going to get resolved, because the Iranians are not going to back down in the face of threats," he was quoted as saying.

Read more at The Atlantic.
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