President Ahmadinejad of Iran was absolutely right to boast that “now there is serious debate about the Holocaust in the media and also political and popular meetings.”

The international press has paid rapt attention to every one of Mr. Ahmadinejad’s statements on the Holocaust. He is given unprecedented space in newspapers, TV, and magazines such as Time, whose current edition includes a “second exclusive” interview in three months. As the New York Times reported on Thursday, now Mr. Ahmadinejad “has a platform to promote the theories — and try to position himself regionally as the reasonable man who is asking hard questions.”