An Iranian Smokescreen?

Via AtlanticWire, which rounds up other opinions on Iran, comes Reza Aslan's take on Ahmadi's chronic holocaust denialism:

Better to have a 20-minute conversation about the vagaries of 20th-century history than about, say, Iran's crumbling economy and his disastrous stewardship of it, or the continuing demonstrations of an emboldened protest movement, or the nearly wholesale rejection of his regime by the clerical class and the denunciation of almost all the grand ayatollahs in Iran, or the dissolution of his conservative coalition, which has fractured in the wake of widespread accusations about the rape and torture of political prisoners, etc.