The NY Times has posted a link to the letter from President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran to President George Bush.
It’s an interesting read to say the least.
State Department officials who read the letter suggested that it offered an interesting window into the mentality and thinking of Iran, especially because it seemed to reflect a inclination to dwell on myriad grievances of the past rather than on the problem at hand, namely Iran’s suspected nuclear weapons program.
Although American officials said they intended to use the letter to make the point that Iran deserved to be isolated internationally over its alleged intransigence over the nuclear issue, they seemed sobered by the letter’s tone as an indication of the uphill battle to change attitudes in Tehran.
The letter has been described as the first direct communication from an Iranian leader to an American president since 1979.
