Iran letter to Germany says both facing "tyranny"

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LONDON (Reuters) - Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told German Chancellor Angela Merkel that their two countries had been subjected to "tyranny" from the World War Two victors and should cooperate to end the "imposed" world order.

Ahmadinejad made the remarks in a letter sent to Merkel in July. A copy of the letter, the details of which were not made public at the time, was obtained by Reuters from a diplomat who asked not to be identified.

In the letter, the Iranian president did not repeat his previous assertion that the Holocaust, in which 6 million Jews were killed by the Nazis, was a myth. But he said it had been used to weaken Germany, and he railed against Zionism.

Chancellor Angela Merkel rejected the letter at the time as "totally unacceptable to Germany" and said it did not deserve a reply.

Full article: http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=topnews&storyid=2006-08-24T184415Z_01_BLA449642_RTRUKOT_0_TEXT0.xml&src=082406_1615_TOPSTORY_iran_cites_tyranny

[DRoseDARs]

1. *Yawn* Good on Merkel for shrugging off this letter like she shrugged...

...off the drunken fratboy. :thumbsup:

[tsuki]

2. Where do we get these "leaders?" I don't care what the letter says,

it's a sign that the Irani leader wants to talk. So, talk to him, even if it's to say his letter is full of sh*t.

[xchrom]

3. agreed.

people forget -- the west talked PLENTY with the old soviet empire -- a nation for whom horrible rhetoric was reserved.

this era of not talking to leaders has gotten us no where.