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(Grain of Salt... large, please)
If this is true... I can't imagine what was in that letter.

Abdullah Gets Message From Ahmadinejad
Arab News

JEDDAH, 16 July 2006 — Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah yesterday received a message from Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The subject of the communiqué is unknown.

Iran’s top national security official Ali Larijani delivered the presidential message to the king during a meeting at Al-Salam Palace in Jeddah, the Saudi Press Agency reported yesterday.

Iranian state television earlier reported that Larijani would discuss the current tumult between Israel and Lebanon.

Meanwhile, Foreign Minister Prince Saud Al-Faisal met Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in Cairo yesterday. Prince Saud is currently in Cairo at the head of the Saudi delegation attending an extraordinary meeting of Arab foreign ministers.

http://www.arabnews.com/?page=1&section=0&article=85450&d=16&m=7&y=2006&pix=kingdom.jpg&category=Kingdom

From the Arab Foreign Ministers' meeting at the Cairo-based Arab League:
The Arab Foreign Ministers' pronouncements during the meeting were fraught with conflicting points of view reflecting the disintegrated overall Arab standing towards what is going on now in heavily-battered Lebanon.

Most divided of all were the Foreign Ministers of both Saudi Arabia and Syria who locked horns during the closed session of yesterday's meeting over Hizbullah.

"Some states have taken hasty decisions that weakened the Arab position," Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Al-Mualem moaned in an apparent reference to Saudi Arabia which criticized the timing of Hizbullah operation, which took two Israeli soldiers prisoner and killed eight others, and held it responsible for the escalation.

"This is a blatant interference into the internal affairs of my country, something I totally reject," his Saudi counterpart Saud Al-Faisal groaned.

"Your dreams are devilish," Saud sniped.

"No, his dreams are rosy as the current Arab situation has no room for any uncalculated adventures," Mohamed Al-Sabah, Kuwait's Foreign Minister, jumped into the fray.

"Arab unity is the best thing we can reach," Mualem kicked back, "I feel deeply sorry for what has been expressed now."

Arab diplomatic sources said that the Arab Foreign Ministers were divided into two groups: one, containing Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Jordan, Egypt, Bahrain, Iraq and the Palestinian Authority.

This first group voted for calming down tensions between the Lebanese and the Palestinians, on the one side, and Israel, on the other. They liked to label Hizbullah's position as "irresponsible".

The other group contained Syria, Algeria, Lebanon, Sudan, Yemen and Qatar. This group was for standing by the side of the Lebanese and Palestinian resistance, who are struggling for the attainment of the legal rights of their peoples.

http://www.islam-online.net/English/News/2006-07/16/02.shtml