Iranian senior adviser calls Jews 'filthy'

A senior aide to Iranian president says Jews have been accused of spreading deadly plagues throughout history because they are filthy, according to Y-net News. (With thanks: Albert)

He said that as long as Israel exists, 'there will never be peace and security in Middle East'.

"Jews are filthy people, and that is why they have been accused throughout history of spreading deadly disease and plagues", President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s advisor Mohammad Ali Ramin told students during a visit at the town of Rasht, the Iranian news site Rooz Online reported Thursday.

Ramin, a historian who serves as the president's most senior aide, is believed to be the man behind the regime's recent statements that the Holocaust is a myth.

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