Potentially. The Associated Press reported on a new mini-series playing in Iran, regarding the Holocaust. It seemed to actually sympathize with the Jews.

[T]he series, titled “Zero Degree Turn,” is clearly sympathetic to the Jews’ plight during World War II. Scenes show men, women and children with yellow stars on their clothes being taken forcibly out of their homes and loaded into trucks by Nazi soldiers.

“Where are they taking them?” the horrified hero, a young Iranian diplomat who works at the Iranian Embassy in Paris, asks someone in a crowd of onlookers.

“The Fascists are taking the Jews to the concentration camps,” the man says. The hero, named Habib Parsa, then begins giving Iranian passports to Jews to allow them to flee occupied France to then-Palestine – a fictionalized version of a true story.

The series could not have aired without being condoned by Iran’s clerical leadership.

Granted it made Iranians seem like heroes, despite the fact that Islamic regiments actually helped Hitler, but the Jews were actually portrayed factually – as victims of a brutal regime.

But is that what the series is actually about? A reader emailed AllahP, pointing to an article in Spiegel from September 10 by Mohammed Reza Kazemi. The reader outlines several points in the article about the film:

• the major point of the series is that it was allegedly the German Jews themselves who collaborated with Hitler to kill those Jews who opposed the re-settlement of Palestine
• for example, a plot line shows that a Jewish researcher is in possession of documents that prove the connection between Hitler and Zionists
• the credits of each episode feature the work of anti-Semite Roger Garaudy as a “historical source”
• “historical adviser” to the series is Holocaust denier Abdollah Shahbazi who openly admits in his blog that he’s a denier
• director and screenwriter Hassan Fatthi alleged to SPIEGEL that according to “historical evidence” a majority of Hitler’s victims were those who opposed the re-settlement of Palestine

It’ll be interesting to see where this goes…