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U.S. Vice President Mike Pence, following a visit to the memorial site of Auschwitz, accused Iran of Nazi-like anti-Semitism a day after blasting European countries for attempting to undermine U.S. sanctions against Tehran.

Pence on February 15 said a visit to the Nazi death camp in Poland had made him more determined to confront Tehran, which he claimed was "breathing out murderous threats with the same vile anti-Semitic hatred that animated the Nazis in Europe."

"For me, it simply strengthens my resolve...to stand strong against Iran," Pence told reporters.

It was Pence’s first visit to Auschwitz, where German forces murdered 1.1 million people, most of them Jews. Poles, Roma, and others were also killed at the site during the Nazis' occupation of Eastern Europe during World War II.

Pence pointed to Iran's long-expressed desire to destroy the state of Israel as justification for singling out Tehran in his remarks.

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