As Israel and the United States condemn Iran for allowing a Holocaust-themed cartoon festival to go on display in Tehran, the Iranian regime says it won’t censor what it says is free speech.

“Why does the United States have the Ku Klux Klan? Is the government of the United States responsible for the fact that there are racially hateful organizations in the United States?” Mohammad Javad Zarif, Iran’s foreign minister, asked The New Yorker, when asked why the regime has permitted the contest. MORE