US Belongs to All Nations’: Ex-Iran president writes a letter to Donald Trump

Hindustan Times ^ | 02/26/2017 | Unknown

[notaliberal]

ran’s former hardline president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad sent a letter Sunday to President Donald Trump, striking a somewhat conciliatory tone while applauding immigration to America and saying it shows “the contemporary US belongs to all nations”.

It isn’t the first dispatch sent by Ahmadinejad, who has counted US Presidents George W Bush and Barack Obama among his pen pals.

But this letter, weighing in at over 3,500 words, comes as criticism of Trump over his travel ban affecting seven Muslim-majority countries including Iran mounts in Tehran. It also may serve to burnish Ahmadinejad’s image domestically after the nation’s Supreme Leader warned him not to run in Iran’s upcoming May presidential election.

In the letter, published by Iranian media outlets, Ahmadinejad noted Trump won the election while he “truthfully described the US political system and electoral structure as corrupt”.

[A_perfect_lady]

Yep. And I do not care how they feel either way. If it were up to me, most of the world would be empty.

[Army Air Corps]

No, it does not.

[zaxtres]

The USA belongs to the American people of the United States of America. Fixed it. There are two Americas - North and South. Only North America has the United States and only the people of the United States own the United States of America. People in South America also call themselves Americans because they too are of the Americas. Definition of the word "of" for this context: used as a function word to indicate the component material, parts, or elements or the contents (throne of gold) (cup of water)

[crusher2013]

The American people used to be understood to mean US citizens. But you’re right in that we need to be more precise in today’s world.

[wintertime]

I have visited Costa Rica many times to attend language school. My last visit with my husband was for 6 months. With each visit we stayed with Spanish-only speaking families.

I've had enough contact with Costa Ricans to be thoroughly sick of the political correctness.

If I can learn to say San Jose, Costa Rica, they can have the courtesy to learn to say New York or New Jersey instead of Nueva York or Nueva Jersey. They could also learn to say United States of America instead of estados unidos.

It is rudeness on the part of Spanish speakers not to use the actual name of our nation, its states, or our major cities.

I also find it irritating that they would refer to me as a “norteamerica”. I am an Americano or ciudana de los United States of AMERICA. If our president can say, “My fellow **AMEIRCANS**....” then that is what were **are**. Americans! We are the only nation in the world with the name of United States of **America***. If Costa Ricans want to called Americans then they should change the name of their country to Estados Costarricense de America.

Toward the end of my last visit to Costa Rica I refused to use anything but the English names of any place in the United States of **AMERICA** and I corrected anyone who called me a norteamericana.

[wintertime]

Please read my post # 25.

I emphatically disagree.

[wintertime]

Yes, it does it belongs to Americans.

Please read my post #25.

[Army Air Corps]

Ping.

[wintertime]

When the rest of the world wears blue jeans and baseball caps is that “cultural appropriation”? ( Just wondering.)

[AU72]

Toward the end of my last visit to Costa Rica I refused to use anything but the English names of any place in the United States of **AMERICA** and I corrected anyone who called me a norteamericana.

Or you could say Saint Joseph instead of San Jose or to really frost them call Costa Rica, Tasty Coast.

[wintertime]

It would definitely “frost” them. For sure!

[KC_Lion]

"No, the United States of America belongs to its citizens and no one else."

Brevity is the soul of wit. You have it Lurkin.

That needs to be shouted from the Rooftops.

[nonsporting]

Muslim lands of conquest belong to the peoples they were stolen from by force.

Give them back and leave.

[BlueLancer]

We're all very different people. We're not Watusi. We're not Spartans. We're Americans, with a capital 'A', huh? You know what that means? Do ya? That means that our forefathers were kicked out of every decent country in the world. We are the wretched refuse.

[BestPresidentEver]

I think he was using nation in the way most non-Americans use it, to mean what Americans mean by ethnic group.

[ROCKLOBSTER]

Actually, you’ve got it all backwards dirtbag. Soon, we will own your @$$.

Better start building bunkers.

[ROCKLOBSTER]

Actually anyone living on the American Continent is an American, including Canadians and Mexicans.

However none of the others are US citizens.

[BestPresidentEver]

And you were in the only white majority Central American country. On my first visit to Central America I was in a Guatemalan church of stunning beauty built during the Spanish era. No services were being held. I tried to take a picture. So much for Latino tolerance.

[wintertime]

So.... According to your definition, don't be surprised that when our various presidents say, “My fellow Americans....” , that every one south or north of our border thinks he is including them.

[ROCKLOBSTER]

According to your definition...when our various presidents say, “My fellow Americans....” , that every one south or north of our border thinks he is including them.

No, but the facts remain, and it's not my definition:
Africans live in Africa, Europeans live in Europe, Asians live in Asia etc. It defines what continent you live on.

Ever heard of "Avenue of the Americas"?

(of course they all seem to think they have a right to cross our border)