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Iran’s ambassador to Portugal tells Portuguese radio it would have taken Nazis 15 years to burn corpses of 6 million people Iran’s ambassador to Portugal told a Portuguese radio interviewer it would have taken the Nazis 15 years to burn the corpses of 6 million people, a remark reflecting the denials of the Holocaust made by his president. “When I was ambassador in Warsaw, I visited Auschwitz and Birkenau twice and made my calculations,” Ambassador Mohammed Taheri said in an interview with Portuguese state radio RTP on Tuesday. “To incinerate 6 million people, 15 years would be necessary,” he said.