Iran has announced that it will be holding a cartoon contest aimed at creating caricatures denying the Holocaust.
This year, the contest's grand prize has been increased from $12,000 to $50,000.
The contest, organized by the Teheran municipal authority, is calling for cartoonists worldwide to send in works denying and satirizing the Holocaust.
Israel's UN Ambassador Danny Danon contacted UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, demanding an official condemnation of the contest.
Danon wrote that holding the event is an anti-Semitic act that expresses true evil, and that Holocaust denial is the strongest expression of anti-Semitism, which gives legitimacy to the murder of six million Jews.
