Iran ? Iran’s competition for cartoons mocking the Holocaust drew international reproach but made little impression at home Thursday, with not a single Iranian newspaper publishing the winning entries and people on the street saying it left them unmoved.

Iran awarded the first prize – worth $12,000 – late Wednesday to Moroccan cartoonist Abdollah Derkaoui, who drew a picture of an Israeli crane erecting a wall of concrete blocks around Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem, Islam’s third holiest site.

The blocks bear sections of a well-known photograph of the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz where as many as 1.5 million people – mostly Jews – died during World War II.

Israel deplored the competition, which drew 204 entries from Iran and abroad.

“The Iranian regime has unfortunately joined the obscene chorus of Holocaust denial,” Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Mark Regev said.