“[O]n September 9, 1993, [Bosnian president] Izetbegovic was again received by President Clinton. Only this time, the Khomeini devotee also paid a highly publicized visit to the Holocaust Memorial Museum…
The media lapped it up. The Los Angeles Times carried the story:
After visiting the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, Izetbegovic said pointedly that in his nation’s tragedy he found echoes of the “passivity” of the Allies in the face of Nazi Germany’s genocide against the Jews of Europe–“including the passivity of the United States “
But then, just as American papers ran their stirring accounts of Izetbegovic’s visit to the memorial to the Holocaust, and Americans were reminded that the United States should never again remain passive in the face of genocide, something truly remarkable happened: Izetbegovic hightailed it to Iran.
Incredibly, in a span of just four days the Muslim leader went from meeting the President of the United States and dramatically drawing a link between the suffering of the Muslims in Bosnia to the mass murder of millions of Jews in World War II at the 
Holocaust Memorial, to being greeted by an Islamic regime so notorious for denying the German genocide against the Jews, it would not only generously finance the efforts of infamous Holocaust “revisionists”, but would eventually host an international “Conference” dedicated to that very purpose…”
Excerpt: Part 2 – Foes With Benefits: US-Iran-German arms policy in Bosnia and Croatia
In 1992 the New York Times reported that the[Clinton backed] Bosnian President Alija Izetbegovic himself made an official state visit to Tehran where he met with Iranian leaders and, while appearing on Iranian television, threatened to 
use poison gas against the Serbian people.
During his visit he attended a ceremony during which his delegation laid a wreath on the tomb of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the leader of “Iran’s Islamic revolution”.
Hashemi Rafsanjani, the Iranian President at the time, gave assurances to the new Bosnian President that “more significant aid” would be forthcoming…” with senior Iranian officials calling for “retaliatory measures against the Serbs by Muslims across the world” “ in response to what they described was “a new Crusade of Christians against Muslims.”
But the Muslim Bosnian Leadership weren’t just traveling to Tehran. They were visiting Washington too—meeting, in fact, with the leader of the Free World.
On March 26, 1993, just six months after Izetbegovic visited Ayatollah Khomeini’s tomb, he was received by the newly inaugurated President of the United States: Bill Clinton.
The visit was preceded that day by President Clinton’s meeting and press conference with German Chancellor Helmet Kohl. […]
Clinton’s meetings with the German Chancellor and the Bosnian President were noted as having both taken place on “Day 66” of “The First One Hundred Days of the Presidency”.
But more was in store.
Five months on, on September 9, 1993, Izetbegovic was again received by President Clinton. Only this time, the Khomeini devotee also paid a highly publicized visit to the Holocaust Memorial Museum.
With the Holocaust Museum as a powerful backdrop and President Clinton waiting in the wings, a new narrative was being devised and assiduously propagated. Muslims were introduced to the world stage as the new persecuted Jews of Europe, helpless victims of racist persecution, tragically bereft of international support, facing certain annihilation at the hands of the Serbs, in desperate need of Western rescue in the form of military intervention. Bosnia was not experiencing a civil war of succession, but a fascist war of aggression the likes of which the world had not seen since World War II.
The media lapped it up. The Los Angeles Times carried the story:
After visiting the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, Izetbegovic said pointedly that in his nation’s tragedy he found echoes of the “passivity” of the Allies in the face of Nazi Germany’s genocide against the Jews of Europe–“including the passivity of the United States “
But then, just as American papers ran their stirring accounts of Izetbegovic’s visit to the memorial to the Holocaust, and Americans were reminded that the United States should never again remain passive in the face of genocide, something truly remarkable happened: Izetbegovic hightailed it to Iran.
Incredibly, in a span of just four days the Muslim leader went from meeting the President of the United States and dramatically drawing a link between the suffering of the Muslims in Bosnia to the mass murder of millions of Jews in World War II at the Holocaust Memorial, to being greeted by an Islamic regime so notorious for denying the German genocide against the Jews, it would not only generously finance the efforts of infamous Holocaust “revisionists”, but would eventually host an international “Conference” dedicated to that very purpose, welcoming to Iran as honored guests and “experts” of the state, Neo-Nazis, Klu Klux Klan members, and other world renown anti-Semites and Holocaust deniers, including David Duke— all brought together by the Iranian government to prove the Holocaust was not only a hoax, but a part of an elaborate Jewish conspiracy to extort money from the Germans and steal Muslim land.
Not surprisingly, details of this particular visit by Izetbegovic with Iran’s rabidly anti-Semitic, Holocaust denying Islamic rulers were buried, if reported at all, meriting barely a mention towards the end of a New York Times story that ran with the Orwellian headline: Rebel Serbs list 50 Croatia Sites They May Raid.
That Bosnia’s Islamic leader’s visit with the Iranian junta came on the very heels of his highly publicized excursion to the Holocaust Museum and meeting President Clinton was omitted entirely.
But that’s not all the busy Bosnian did that September in 1993.
Soon thereafter, he did yet another curious thing. Izetbegovic scheduled a meeting in Sarajevo with Muslim representatives of Srebrenica, a municipality that had been only recently designated as a “demilitarized”, UN protected “safehaven” inside a region home to a large Serbian population.
During that meeting, explains Schindler who, before joining the faculty of the Naval War College was a specialist
on the Balkans and the Middle East for the NSA, President Izetbegovic advised the Srebrenica delegation of the extraordinary pledge he had received from the newly elected leader of The Free World, stating:
You know in April of 1993 President Clinton told me if the Chetniks [Serbs] enter Srebrenica and massacre five thousand Muslims, then there will be military intervention.
It was a commitment even the Srebrenica Chief of Police Hakiye Meholich, confirmed hearing personally from President Izetbegovic in an interview he gave to the Sarajevo paper Dani.
It was quite the tall order too, but understandable given the circumstances.
The new American President from Arkansas, after all, couldn’t very well go around accusing the Serbs of launching “a new Crusade of Christians against Muslims” as the Iranians had and expect it to play in Peoria…well, not yet anyway.
He needed something else, something more, something with corpses—apparently “five thousand” of them.
Maybe that’s why Izetbegovic suddenly scurried off to Tehran just after his cynical publicity stunt at the Holocaust Memorial Museum, hurriedly holding talks with the President of Iran right there, at the airport, just four days later.
Perhaps Izetbegovic, after personally debriefing the Iranian President on his rousing success in Washington then turned to his Holocaust denying benefactors to confirm their support in fulfilling his end of the bargain with Clinton: Muslim victims, and lots of them.
Izetbegovic, for his part, could hardly have found better allies for his cause. Orchestrating a mass murder of one’s own people, as it happens, was well within Iran’s area of expertise. Indeed, the Mullahs had shown only a few years earlier just how efficiently and quietly it could be done.
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