Breaking a twenty seven year diplomatic freeze between Iran and the United States the President of Iran wrote an 18 page letter to the US president, proposing “a way forward” and ideas “to move beyond” the current stalemate over the future of Iran’s nuclear energy program.
The letter was passed from the Iranian foreign minister to Sweden’s ambassador to Tehran, who then delivered it to US officials.
Within hours of news of the letter becoming public, Secretary of State, Condaleeza Rice said the letter “changes nothing”
“The question here is “what has the hundreds of billions of dollars, spent every year to pay for the Iraqi campaign produced for it’s citizens?”
As your Execellency is aware, in some states of your country, people are living in poverty. Many thousands are homeless and unemployment is a huge problem.”
– excerpt from the letter
He questions how Bush’s Christian beliefs reconcile with having other countries attacked and thousands of lives taken- here is the link to the letter at CNN
I absolutely shudder inside when I see the hypocrisy of our country’s current leadership laid naked for the world to see.
On the other hand, I do not trust any overture made by the Iranian president, who has shown himself to be a liar and a hypocrite, too.