The 2012 conference brought 48 international guests, who engaged in discussion on "Hollywood and Holocaust", "Palestine on the Line of Fire", and "Darwinism and Liberalism". President of Iran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad opened the conference, honoring actor and attendee Sean Stone, a recent Muslim convert and the son of the filmmaker Oliver Stone. Other attendees included Webster Tarpley, an American conspiracy theorist. The Tehran Times reported that several speakers touched upon a purported "influence of the Zionist regime on Hollywood." At the 2012 conference, Robert Faurisson delivered a paper on "Hollywoodism's part in creating the myth of 'the Holocaust'". In his opinion, Iran should use of the "poor man's atomic bomb", Holocaust revisionism (the term preferred by Holocaust deniers themselves), as means of opposing detractors.
