Iran Prez tells American citizens he knows they detest President Bush and says he wants to work with them to reverse his policies
Iran Prez tells American citizens he knows they detest President Bush and says he wants to work with them to reverse his policies
WASHINGTON, DC: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad fired another weapon from his propaganda arsenal on Wednesday with an open letter to the American public asking them reject to Bush administration policies, and offered his help in reversing them. The US State Department, in response, said his letter was a public relations stunt, and that it was the gesture of a leader of a country that is “finding itself in a very isolated place right now.”
Ahmadinejad’s six-page letter, addressed to “noble Americans”, was sent to leading American media outlets and talks about Bush’s policies about the war in Iraq, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and, of course, Iran. In May, Ahmadinejad had written a letter addressed to President Bush which, in effect, had asked America to come to the negotiations table. The White House had rejected the letter.
In the latest letter, the Iranian president said about Israel and the US: “For 60 years, the Zionist regime has driven millions of the inhabitants of Palestine out of their homes… You know well that the US administration has persistently provided blind and blanket support to the Zionist regime, has emboldened it to continue its crimes, and has prevented the UN Security Council from condemning it. Who can deny such broken promises and grave injustices towards humanity by the US administration?”
About Iraq, he wrote: “I consider it extremely unlikely that you, the American people, consent to the billions of dollars of annual expenditure from your treasury for this military misadventure.” He also takes a dig at secret CIA prisons and its alleged torture tactics.
He then suggested that Americans themselves could be victims of attacks on civil liberties. He wrote: “You are witnessing daily that under the pretext of ‘the war on terror’, civil liberties in US are being increasingly curtailed. Even the privacy of individuals is fast losing its meaning. Judicial due process and fundamental rights are trampled upon. Private phones are tapped, suspects are arbitrarily arrested, sometimes beaten in the streets, or even shot to death.”
In response, State Department Deputy Spokesperson Tom Casey said: “One of the benefits for us here in the US is that we have a free press and a free society that will allow everyone to take a look at this and debate it and think about it and discuss it in their own terms. It’s kind of a shame that President Ahmadinejad doesn’t allow people in his own country the opportunity to have a free and open debate of political ideas and views.”
Ahmedinejad was relentless in his attack against Bush. “Undoubtedly, the American people are not satisfied with this behaviour and they showed their discontent in the recent elections,” he wrote.
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