Posted on 02/26/2017 9:34:38 AM PST by 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”.
It has nothing to do with being politically correct. Quite the contrary but has everything to do with pride. North and South America contain Americans. Just like people designate those from the south in the Untied States as Southerners and those from the northest as Northerners. Nothing wrong with nor is there anything politically correct about it. Costa Ricans are on an American continent are they not? So if they are are on an American continent then they are Americans. I guarantee you say Europeans and Asians and Russians. Your they should rename their country doesn’t fly. They live on an American continent so they are Americans as well.
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