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| Iran president to send letter to Pope |
| 2006-05-18 |
| Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is writing a letter to Pope Benedict, following an unprecedented letter to U.S. President George W. Bush earlier this month, a newspaper said on Thursday. "President Ahmadinjad's second letter is for Pope Benedict and will be sent in the next days," Jomhuri-ye Eslami newspaper, which is close to Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, quoted unnamed sources as saying. The newspaper gave no details of the letter's content. Iranian officials were not available to comment. In the first direct communication between the two countries' presidents for more than two decades, Ahmadinejad wrote a long missive to Bush this month in which he questioned his commitment to Christian values and criticised U.S. foreign policy. Some Iranian analysts and Western diplomats interpreted the letter as a veiled offer to open talks with Washington on the dispute over Iran's nuclear programme. But Washington has said it has no intention of holding direct talks with Iran on the issue. Britain, France and Germany, the European Union's three biggest powers, plan to offer Iran a package of incentives to try to induce Tehran to freeze a uranium enrichment programme which the West suspects could be used to make atomic bombs. Ahamdinejad has ruled out halting nuclear fuel work in return for incentives, saying the Europeans were offering "candy for gold". |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #13 Did mahmoud write them himself or did one of his cronies have to take away his crayons again....... |
| Posted by: Broadhead6 2006-05-18 23:00 |
| #12 Actually, Ahmadinejad is not sending letters to major world leaders, but rather he is sending a Black Spot, written on a page torn from the Bible. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2006-05-18 22:00 |
| #11 If Mahmoud is on track, shouldn't Israel get the next letter? EU doesn't need one, he's poo-poo them as mental and anyway the letter to W covers all the western allies, I think. Unless Blair get's one first, just for the special attention and alignment. Anyone else due a letter? If Israel does get one of these as well, I believe Mahmoud would be ready to strike within a day. Just after the official "drop dead" response hits the media. It's a theory... |
| Posted by: Thinemp Whimble2412 2006-05-18 18:48 |
| #10 This would even provoke shock from Muzzies I suspect. Followed by cheering, followed by calls not to judge the cheering Muslims by the actions of a small minority of extremists. |
| Posted by: Robert Crawford 2006-05-18 17:38 |
| #9 Nuking the vatican would be very very bad. This would even provoke shock from Muzzies I suspect. At least the Vatican would get advanced notice in the form of a nuked Israel. |
| Posted by: Mike N. 2006-05-18 17:31 |
| #8 Since his letters are declarations of war... he does realized doesn't he what the response would be if he nuked the Vatican? |
| Posted by: 3dc 2006-05-18 17:00 |
| #7 Based on a recent article, it seems that these letters, much to the contrary of the MSM depiction, comply with the directions given for a declaration of militant jihad upon the recipients of the letter. (I believe I read this on Captain's Quarters Blog). |
| Posted by: mjh 2006-05-18 16:02 |
| #6 How much is the postage from the 7th century to the 21st????? |
| Posted by: Cheaderhead 2006-05-18 15:29 |
| #5 What's the return address? The Well Iran |
| Posted by: tu3031 2006-05-18 14:28 |
| #4 The pope should "return to sender". |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2006-05-18 14:25 |
| #3 "In the name of Mahmoud, er, Allan the most compassionate..." |
| Posted by: Seafarious 2006-05-18 13:55 |
| #2 No doubt Ahmadinejad will include a review of the Da Vinci Code in his call for the Pope to accept Allah and bow to Islam. Given Mahmoud's sense of whimsy, the Fibonacci Sequence will be prominently featured. |
| Posted by: RWV 2006-05-18 13:53 |
| #1 Inviting him to islam, too? |
| Posted by: anonymous2u 2006-05-18 13:52 |