Posted on 11/29/2006 3:59:55 AM PST by Dallas59
TEHRAN, Iran - Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has written a letter to the American people that will be released at U.N. headquarters in New York on Wednesday, a state newspaper reported. ADVERTISEMENT
The newspaper gave no details of the letter, an apparent attempt by the firebrand president to reach out to Americans over the head of their government.
The state-run newspaper Iran reported the letter in bold type on its front page, saying "the five-page letter to the American people will be released by Iran's representative at the United Nations today."
Ahmadinejad wrote a rambling, 18-page letter to President Bush in May, which Washington criticized for not addressing Iran's nuclear program. The U.S. is leading the drive to impose U.N. sanctions on Tehran for its refusal to stop enriching uranium.
Average Iranians were disappointed by the cold response to the May letter, the first official communication between the two countries' presidents since the Islamic Revolution of 1979.
Earlier this month, Ahmadinejad said he was planning to write a letter to Americans.
"Many American people asked me to talk to them in order to explain the views of the Iranian people," Ahmadinejad told reporters, referring to his visit to New York to attend the U.N. General Assembly session in September 2005.
Ahmadinejad has alienated many Americans by calling for Israel's destruction and repeatedly dismissing the Holocaust as a myth. He also strongly supports the Palestinian militant group Hamas and the Lebanese faction Hezbollah, which the U.S. State Department lists as terrorist organizations.
Twice this year, Iran has proposed talks with the United States over Iraq, but Ahmadinejad has said that for such negotiations to take place, Washington must change its behavior. On Sunday, he said Iran was ready to help the United States get out of the "Iraqi quagmire if the U.S. changes its bullying policy toward Iran."
Iran and the United States have had no diplomatic relations since 1979 when, after the Islamic revolution, militants seized the U.S. Embassy in Tehran and kept 52 people hostage for 444 days.
The moonbats and peaceniks will be sure to fall for his propaganda.... I betcha.
The lefties will be happy to hear from their "new hero."
Maybe us Americans can write a letter to Ahmadinejad and tell him what we think of his failed hellhole society where many of his people hate his guts.
NUTS! to achmedinadinnerjacket.
I think we should stamp it "Return to Sender", address unknown, no such number, no such zone!
"Iran Leader Writes to Americans"
On behalf of THIS American, let me say mr. imanutjob... KISS MY ARSE!
LLS
"Does this mean that 'hero' Obama has been sidelined?"
It's now a powergrab for the title of "Hero of the Democrats"!
Good Lord....The times we live in look more and more like the prelude to WWII....we are reliving history....and most Americans are to self absorbed to even notice....
Of that you can be sure, whoever it was that said "there's a sucker born every five minutes" wasn't kidding.
Trouble is nowadays I'd actually say it's every two minutes, there's way too many lefties out there waiting to kiss the boots of the next dictator!!
Good Lord that's a classic I haven't seen since during the hostage crisis.
Oh, really? And the reporter knows this how?
Here's a prime example of media bias creeping into a so-called news story.
I think Pres Bush was very polite. If I had gotten that letter, it would have been used in the White House loo.
Still fresh in my mind.
A rambling letter? Horse puckey
I read it several times and it is coherent, understandable and quite frightening.
This guy is a true believer nut bar, I have no doubt he would push the nuclear button if he thought that would bring about the 12th Iman.
The fact he is writing to the American public an open letter, he clearly understands our political system and the gullibility of the American left and moderates
I should have known!
Nasser Karimi works for the Associated Press. But dig this! He is affiliated with the AP, but actually works in Tehran for the Iranian News Agency, an arm of the Islamic Republic's propaganda ministry.
In the past, AP didn't use stories from government news organs. Guess there's no ethics left in these "journalists".
Hey, jabbernutjob, come on over here and "shake hands" with a few real Americans.
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