Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has written a letter to President Bush with suggestions on how to resolve current international tensions, Iranian officials said today, but there was no immediate information about whether he was proposing a solution to differences over Iran's nuclear program.
Frederick Jones, the spokesman for the National Security Council, was informed just after 2:00 p.m. that the letter arrived at the White House. He said that Stephen J. Hadley, President Bush's national security adviser, would examine it along with the council's staff. He did not have any information on the tone or content of the letter or on when Mr. Bush would review it.
Officials in Iran would not disclose the contents of the letter, which was forwarded to Washington through the Swiss embassy, which represents American interests in Iran.
The letter is believed to be the first direct public communication sent by an Iranian president to an American president since ties between the nations were severed after the American Embassy in Tehran was seized in 1979.
The United States director of intelligence, John D. Negroponte, said today in a briefing in Washington that he had not read the letter, but he suspected it could be linked to discussion in the United Nations Security Council over Iran's nuclear program.
"Certainly one of the hypotheses you'd have to examine is whether and in what way the timing of the dispatch of that letter is connected with trying in some manner to influence the debate before the Security Council," Mr. Negroponte said.
Source: New York Times
-------------------------------There are 3 points about this news:
1. Why the Iranian officials have not published the content of the letter?
2. How come the White House has recieved the letter but still not read such an important mail?
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Well, I think you've got a point, but with all love for my country, the US would not release the contents of the letter if it paints the Iranian govn't as peace seeking. That would be counter productive to the campaign they have been pushing about Iran being evil (whether you belive it or not is another story).
Iran would not want to publish the contents of the letter if they painted the same picture because it would make them appear weak to their region and sphere of influence, and make the rising "moderation generation" in Iran even more emboldened.
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