The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) has condemned an Iranian website dedicated to Holocaust denial, calling it a "virtual cesspool" of anti-Semitism.
It urged the United States to publicly denounce the Iranian regime’s blatant anti-Semitism.
The “HoloCartoon” website purports to offer a historical narrative of events occurring before, during and after World War II.
The New York-based Jewish group said, "it is rife with anti-Semitic imagery, Jewish conspiracy theories, Holocaust denial and factual inaccuracies."
"HoloCartoon is a pernicious website replete with vicious anti-Semitism and caricatures of Jews fabricating the Holocaust story to advance their goals, and depictions of Jews as murderers and manipulative money worshippers," said Abraham H. Foxman, ADL’s national director and a Holocaust survivor.
He added: "Its pseudo-history makes a mockery of the Holocaust and the site is little more than a virtual cesspool of anti-Semitism."
The website is hosted on an Iranian server and, according to media reports, is sponsored by a non-governmental cultural foundation. The material is reportedly based on a cartoon book on the Holocaust published in Iran in 2008.
It opens to the Pink Panther theme song by Henry Mancini and reportedly wants to continue challenging the issue and show that "the killing of 6 million Jews in the Second World War known as the Holocaust was a sheer lie."
"The site is dedicated to all those who have been killed under the pretext of the Holocaust," the Iranian Fars news agency reported.
"This type of anti-Semitism is the calling card of the Iranian regime and a reflection of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who continues a drumbeat of Holocaust denial and Jew-bashing," Mr. Foxman added.
In a letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, ADL called on the United States to publicly denounce the blatant anti-Semitism which the Iranian regime fosters and permits to be disseminated throughout the world.
The site drew anger from Yad Vashem, the Holocaust museum in Jerusalem.
"The launch of a website dedicated to denying the Holocaust through caricatures and text, is yet the latest salvo emanating from Iran that denies the facts of the Holocaust and attempts to influence those who are ignorant of history," Yad Vashem said in a statement.
"The vulgar and cynical approach of the website, a combination of Holocaust denial and distortion, illustrated with antisemitic caricatures, further illustrates Iran’s disregard for reality and truth vis-à-vis the Holocaust, Jews and Israel."
In 2005 Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad started his anti-Israel tirades, calling the Holocaust a "fairy tale."
In December 2006, Iran hosted a Holocaust conference in Tehran which was attended by prominent anti-Semitic and neo-Nazi figures.