IRAN: DIPLOMATS TOLD POPE BENEDICT XVI WANTS 'WAR' WITH ISLAM

Speakers at a conference sponsored by the Iranian foreign ministry accused Pope Benedict of wanting a war against Islam and that he supported Hitler. Hojatolislam Seyyed Hadi Khosrowshahi a former ambassador to the Vatican, said that the Pope's speech in Germany as "not the start of a new crusade, but the continuation of the first war between Christians and Islam, a war which has never ended." He also said that that many prominent Muslims want to reevaluate their relationship with the Catholic Church AKI .