German Jewish group to protest during Iran World Cup match

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad delivers a speech at the parliament in Tehran to mark the 100th anniversary of the formation of parliament in Iran, May 27. The Central Council of Jews in Germany is planning to hold a protest at the World Cup football match between Iran and Mexico in Nuremberg on June 11, to "show their opposition to the politics of Iran and its president", the German press reported.

The Central Council of Jews in Germany is planning to hold a protest at the World Cup football match between Iran and Mexico in Nuremberg on June 11, the German press reported.

"We will hold a demonstration to show our opposition to the politics of Iran and its president," the secretary general of the council, Stephan Kramer, was quoted as saying in Tuesday's edition of Die Freie Presse newspaper in Chemnitz.

Hardline Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has called for Israel to be wiped from the map and has repeatedly denied the Holocaust.

In the interview published in Der Spiegel magazine this week, he said: "I will only accept something as an absolute truth if I am fully convinced."

The president is a football supporter but his spokesman said on Monday that he would not be coming to Germany to watch Iran's national side compete in the World Cup.

The Iranians are playing in Group D in the first round of the tournament, against Angola, Mexico and Portugal.

The city of Frankfurt on Tuesday said it wanted to ban a planned protest by neo-Nazis in support of Ahmadinejad during the Iran v Portugal match being played there on June 17.

A final decision was expected to be taken next week, a spokesman for the city council said.