US urged to make amends for past: Ahmadinejad’s letter to Americans
By Our Correspondent
NEW YORK, Nov 29: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in a letter to the American people on Wednesday told them that it was possible for US government `to remedy some of the past afflictions and alleviate some of the global resentment and hatred of America’.
The letter, which was released by the Iranian mission to the United Nations in New York , tells the Americans `it is possible to govern based on an approach that is distinctly different from the one of coercion, force ands injustice.
“It is possible to sincerely serve and promote common human values, and be honest and compassionate,” he stated.
A recent survey, undertaken by MSNBC, said 59 per cent of the Americans believe that the way out of a possible US-Iran confrontation is through dialogue.
They also felt that Mr Ahmadinejad’s previous remarks have been potentially dangerous.
Mr Ahmadinejad tells the Americans in the letter: “Were the American people not God-fearing, truth-loving, and justice-seeking, while the US administration actively conceals the truth and impedes any objective portrayal of current realities; and if we did not share a common responsibility to promote and protect freedom and human dignity and integrity, then, there would have been little urgency to have a dialogue with you.
“While providence has placed Iran and the United States geographically far apart, we should be cognisant that human values and our common human spirit, which proclaim the dignity and exalted worth of all human beings, have brought our two great nations of Iran and the United States closer together.
In May Mr Ahmadinejad wrote an 18-page letter to President Bush in which he criticised Washington for making an issue of Iran’s nuclear program.
Most Iranians were disappointed by the cold response to the May letter, the first official communication between the two countries’ presidents since the 1979 revolution.
