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Iran president writes to Bush

Government spokesman Gholamhossein Elham said the letter would be delivered to the Swiss Embassy in Tehran, which represents US interests in Iran.

DNA Web Team

Updated : Nov 19, 2013, 11:17 PM IST

Updated at 4 am, Tuesday

TEHRAN: Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has sent a letter to United States President George W Bush seeking to resolve the current situation in the world, an Iranian official said on Monday.

The White House initially said it was "unaware" of the letter but later said it had received the letter.

Government spokesman Gholamhossein Elham said the letter would be delivered to the Swiss Embassy in Tehran, which represents US interests in Iran.

It is the first time an Iranian president has been known to officially communicate with an American president since Washington and Tehran cut off diplomatic relations in 1980.

"In this letter, while analysing the world situation and finding the roots of the problems, he has proposed new ways for getting out of the existing vulnerable world situation," the spokesman said.

The United States and Iran are at loggerheads over Tehran's nuclear programme which Washington suspects is a cover for ambitions to build atomic weapons.

Washington accuses Iran of supporting "terrorist" groups across the Middle East region.

Washington has not had diplomatic relations with Iran since April 1980, following the seizure of the US embassy in Tehran in 1979 in which 52 Americans were held for 444 days.

The Swiss government assumed the representation of US interests in Iran in 1981, and has since been acting as a conduit for messages between the two arch enemies.

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