Ahmadinejad Writes
Letters to Obama and Ban Ki-moon
According to
Iran's state-run media, Iranian President Ahmadinejad has written to President
Obama to urge him to 'combat terrorism like Iran does'; and to U.N. Secretary
General Ban Ki-moon asking for an international investigation into Western
support for a Sunni seperatist group that has mounted a number of major attacks inside Iran.
Map showing the location of last October's terrorist attack on Iran's Revolutionary Guard. Iran believes this was an attack mounted with the help of Western intelligence agencies.
TEHRAN: In a letter sent to
his U.S. counterpart, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has urged Barack Obama to
follow Tehran's example in fighting terrorism, the Iranian president's office
said on Wednesday.
"The letter raised questions
like the attack on Afghanistan, the expansion of instability and insecurity in
the region and America's backing for terrorism," said Esfandiar Rahim Mashaie,
the president's chief of staff. "The president also asked Obama to learn how
to combat terrorism from Iran," Mashaie said.
In the letter, which was sent
during the month of Esfand (February 20 to March 21), Ahmadinejad also brought
up the topic of Abdolmalek
Rigi, who Iran arrested in February.
[Editor's Note: Abdolmalek
Rigi is the leader of Jundallah,
which is a Sunni group fighting for an independent Baluchestan. The region
covers areas of Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan].
"The aim of the letter
is to allow the world to understand the Islamic Republic of Iran's views and to
criticize U.S. policies in the region," Mashaie said.
Over recent days, Ahmadinejad
raised fresh doubts about the 2001 attacks on the United States, and even wrote
U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon asking for an investigation into what he called a
"big lie."
The Iranian Students News
Agency quoted Ahmadinejad's letter to Ban Ki-moon:
You
are certainly familiar with the name of Abdolmalek Rigi - a terrorist and gang
leader who for years used Afghanistan and Pakistan as safe havens to infiltrate
Iran's southeast border to conduct armed robbery and acts of terrorism. More
than 140 innocent Iranian women, children and man were killed with the most
horrendous methods, and more than 260 were wounded.
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It's
bad enough that international organizations that claim to advocate human rights
have been silent vis-a-vis these crimes. But even more deplorable are measures
undertaken by NATO security forces and intelligence agencies in Afghanistan as
well as the attitudes of some American and European media, which have attempted
to support these crimes and cleanse the blood-stained hands of this criminal
and his mercenaries. There is concrete evidence that intelligence and security
services of at least three countries have been involved in supporting his
terrorist activities.
Some
Western media highlight small mistakes by police officers of countries that
defy hegemony and imperialism in order to raise loud and deafening cries and
feign deep grief over human rights abuse. As part of their efforts to portray the
barbaric killing of defenseless people as a holy campaign, that have either
been silent in the face of such crimes and brutality, or have conducted
interviews and featured articles or reports introducing this murderer as a
freedom fighter or democracy activist.
