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Netanyahu aims to bring Ahmadinejad to trial
Israel's opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday he hoped to bring Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to trial for incitement to genocide.
- Agencies
- Published: 00:00 January 21, 2007
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- Former Israeli President Benjamin Netanyahu says he will rally for Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to stand trial.
Jerusalem: Israel's opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday he hoped to bring Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to trial for incitement to genocide.
Ahmadinejad has stirred global outcry by denying the existence of the Holocaust, in which some six million Jews were killed and calling for Israel to be "wiped off the map".
"We are working to bring Ahmadinejad to stand trial as a war criminal for his call for genocide," Netanyahu said at a conference in Israel.
The former Israeli prime minister said that he and other Israeli diplomats will lobby with international lawmakers and that he planned to visit Britain this week to do just that.
"I want to call on the world, the world that did not stop the Holocaust last time, to stop any attempt at a future Holocaust this time," he said.
The UN Security Council passed sanctions against Iran for failing to suspend its nuclear programme. Iran denies the charge.
Netanyahu said he was also pressing for Western companies to impose "voluntary sanctions" on Tehran.
"There is no need to wait for the United Nations until it brings to the Security Council sanctions with teeth - if they will bring them at all," he said.
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