A spokesman for Iran's foreign ministry, Manouchehr Mohammadi, said the conference would examine fundamental questions about the Holocaust.
"The first question to be posed is: did the Holocaust actually happen or not? And the second one is: if it did happen, what was the scale of it?
An official at the Iranian foreign ministry claimed that delegates from 30 countries will attend the conference, initiated by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad who has publicly called for Israel to be "wiped off the map,".
The conference has bizarre seminars designed to cause maximum pain to Holocaust survivors and their descendants:
Gas Chambers: Denial or Confirmation, is the title of one. Others are entitled Freedom of Speech and the Stance of Holocaust Deniers in the West, and The Current Laws Against Holocaust Deniers.
It's all rather frightening when you consider this country is seeking to justify its nuclear ambitions.
