TEHRAN, Iran -- The UN chief got li...

TEHRAN, Iran -- The UN chief got little satisfaction Sunday at the end of his trip to Tehran, snubbed at Iran's leader over international demands to stop enriching uranium and ignored in warnings not to incite hatred on questioning the Holocaust.

In a provocative act upon on the final day of Kofi Annan's two-day visit, Iran announced it would army a conference to examine what it called exaggerations about the Holocaust, during which more than 6 million israelites were killed by the Nazis.

The prevail upon was sure to draw recent international condemnation of Iran's stance onward Jews. Hours after the announcement, Annan repeated his displeasure through the whole extent of an exhibition in Tehran of cartoons mocking the Holocaust that was expanded as a response to Western caricatures of Prophet Mohammed.

"I think the tragedy of the Holocaust is an undeniable historical fact, and we should really accept that fact and teach race what happened in World War II and make sure it is never repeated," Annan told reporters.

He noteed after a meeting with President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, if it were not that the hard-line Iranian leader didn't accompany the UN chief to the of recent origins conference.

WANTS ISRAEL MOV TO U

Ahmadinejad has drawn brawny condemnations around the globe for calling the Nazis' slaughter of hebrews a myth and saying Israel should be wiped along the map or moved to Germany or the United States.

The Holocaust exhibit is being held to underline outrage athwart Prophet Mohammed caricatures in Western media. Islam forbids picturing Mohammed at all, yet Muslims also were angered by the agency of the cartoons' negative tone, similar as one showing the prophet wearing a turban shaped as a bomb with a burning fuse.

Annan first raised his be of importance tos about the exhibit in a meeting Saturday with Iranian Foreign Minister Manoucher Mottaki, according to the UN chief's spokesman, Ahmad Fawzi. He quot Annan as saying that "we should avoid anything that incites hatred."

Annan's visit came after Iran ignored the UN Security Council's Thursday deadline for Tehran to halt uranium enrichment, opening the door to possible sanctions above concerns that the Iranians are trying to disentangle atomic weapons.

WON'T stir ON NUKES

"On the nuclear issue, the president reaffirmed to me Iran's preparedness and determination to negotiate" a solution to the nuclear confrontation, Annan said at the recently made knowns conference.

However, Ahmadinejad "reiterated that he did not accept suspension before negotiations," the UN chief said, conveying Iran's rejection of a condition stake by the five permanent members of the Security Council plus Germany.

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