Foreign Policy

Former Iranian President Ahmadinejad Pens Letter to Obama

Former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has written a letter to US President Barack Obama, urging him to “recognize nations’ rights and show respects for other nations’ cultures and independence”.

“You took office as the president of the United States amidst a climax in global frustration and protests from nations, following several decades of hegemonic policies and behavior of consecutive US administrations. Your campaign slogan was ‘change’ and you claimed to be determined to change those policies as well as behaviors, recognize nations’ rights and show respects for other nations’ cultures and independence,” reads part of Ahmadinejad’s letter to the US president.
Following is the full text of his letter to Obama:

 

In the Name of God, The Most Compassionate, The Most Merciful

Praise belongs to God, the Lord of heavens and earth, and God’s peace and mercy be upon the seal of prophets, Mohammad and his pure progeny, and upon all prophets and messengers of God.

O’ God, hasten the blessed advent of your savior, and bestow upon him health and triumph, and upon us by being among his best supporters, as well as those who heed for being sacrificed ahead of him

 

President Barack Hussein Obama

The White House

His Excellency Mr. President

As-salamun alaykum

You took office as the president of the United States amidst a climax in global frustration and protests from nations, following several decades of hegemonic policies and behavior of consecutive US administrations. Your campaign slogan was ‘change’ and you claimed to be determined to change those policies as well as behaviors, recognize nations’ rights and show respect for other nations’ cultures and independence.

It is with great regret that your explicitly announced undertakings, mentioned above, including your public as well as written announcements to mend ties with the Iranian nation and to make compensation for about sixty years of oppression and cruelty by different American governments against the Iranian nation were never fulfilled, whatsoever the cause, and the same hostile policies along with the same trend of enmity were pursued, in alternative ways.

Although, it was expected that during your term in office compensation for the past would have been remedied, or at least any new instance of cruel behavior against the Iranian nation would have been prevented, I am afraid that manifold problems were created from which I am going to raise but a particular one that occurred recently.

On June 9, 2014, a court in America, based on unfounded claims without presenting any reliable documents, issued a sentence based on which about two billion Dollars of the Iranian nation’s assets would be seized unlawfully which is an obvious instance of transgression. This sentence was later on upheld by the American judiciary system on April 20, 2016 and consequently those assets were seized, which has raised widespread public protests among the Iranian people nationwide.

It is the clear expectation of the Iranian nation that the particular case of property seizure, which fully occurred during your term in office, and actually toward the end of the term, and which is counter to all international legal principles and rules, be quickly fixed by your excellency and that not only the Iranian nations right be restored, and the seized property released and returned, but also the damages caused be fully compensated for.

Though I believe the Iranian nation will itself restore its right, I passionately advise you not to let the historical defamation and bitter incident be recorded under your name, within the framework of unilateral and unjustified relations of the two states, hence deepening the historical distrust.

My letter is by no means of political nature, but merely from the standpoint of humanitarian rights and for protecting the inalienable rights of my nation and should you have read it up to here from a political point of view, I would recommend reading this all over from the perspective I am taking while I’m writing this down.

Best wishes for the health and well-being of all nations

Mahmoud Ahmady Nejad

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