The head of the Iranian Jewish community, Harun Yeshayai, protested on Sunday Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's claims that the Holocaust was a myth created to help Israel.

In a letter to Ahmadinejad, Yeshayai asked how it was possible to ignore all the evidence of the massacre and expulsion of the Jews of Europe in World War II. He added that Ahmadinejad's comments caused concern among the Jewish community in Iran...