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   Message of H.E. Dr. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad   
   President of the Islamic Republic of Iran   
   To the American People   
      
   In the name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful   
      
   O, Almighty God, bestow upon humanity the perfect human being promised   
   to all by You, and make us among his followers.   
      
   Noble Americans,   
      
   Were we not faced with the activities of the US administration in this   
   part of the world and the negative ramifications of those activities   
   on   
   the daily lives of our peoples, coupled with the many wars and   
   calamities caused by the US administration as well as the tragic   
   consequences of US interference in other countries;   
      
   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 Divine providence has placed Iran and the United States   
   geographically far apart, we should be cognizant 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.   
      
   Both our nations are God-fearing, truth-loving and justice-seeking,   
   and   
   both seek dignity, respect and perfection.   
      
   Both greatly value and readily embrace the promotion of human ideals   
   such as compassion, empathy, respect for the rights of human beings,   
   securing justice and equity, and defending the innocent and the weak   
   against oppressors and bullies.   
      
   We are all inclined towards the good, and towards extending a helping   
   hand to one another, particularly to those in need.   
      
   We all deplore injustice, the trampling of peoples' rights and the   
   intimidation and humiliation of human beings.   
      
   We all detest darkness, deceit, lies and distortion, and seek and   
   admire salvation, enlightenment, sincerity and honesty.   
      
   The pure human essence of the two great nations of Iran and the United   
   States testify to the veracity of these statements.   
      
   Noble Americans,   
      
   Our nation has always extended its hand of friendship to all other   
   nations of the world.   
      
   Hundreds of thousands of my Iranian compatriots are living amongst you   
   in friendship and peace, and are contributing positively to your   
   society.  Our people have been in contact with you over the past many   
   years and have maintained these contacts despite the unnecessary   
   restrictions of US authorities.   
      
   As mentioned, we have common concerns, face similar challenges, and   
   are   
   pained by the sufferings and afflictions in the world.   
      
   We, like you, are aggrieved by the ever-worsening pain and misery of   
   the Palestinian people.  Persistent aggressions by the Zionists are   
   making life more and more difficult for the rightful owners of the   
   land   
   of Palestine.  In broad day-light, in front of cameras and before the   
   eyes of the world, they are bombarding innocent defenseless civilians,   
   bulldozing houses, firing machine guns at students in the streets and   
   alleys, and subjecting their families to endless grief.   
      
   No day goes by without a new crime.   
      
   Palestinian mothers, just like Iranian and American mothers, love   
   their   
   children, and are painfully bereaved by the imprisonment, wounding and   
   murder of their children. What mother wouldn't?   
      
   For 60 years, the Zionist regime has driven millions of the   
   inhabitants   
   of Palestine out of their homes.  Many of these refugees have died in   
   the Diaspora and in refugee camps. Their children have spent their   
   youth in these camps and are aging while still in the hope of   
   returning   
   to homeland.   
      
   You know well that the US administration has persistently provided   
   blind and blanket support to the Zionist regime, has emboldened it to   
   continue its crimes, and has prevented the UN Security Council from   
   condemning it.   
      
   Who can deny such broken promises and grave injustices towards   
   humanity   
   by the US administration?   
      
   Governments are there to serve their own people. No people wants to   
   side with or support any oppressors. But regrettably, the US   
   administration disregards even its own public opinion and remains in   
   the forefront of supporting the trampling of the rights of the   
   Palestinian people.   
      
   Let's take a look at Iraq. Since the commencement of the US military   
   presence in Iraq, hundreds of thousands of Iraqis have been killed,   
   maimed or displaced. Terrorism in Iraq has grown exponentially. With   
   the presence of the US military in Iraq, nothing has been done to   
   rebuild the ruins, to restore the infrastructure or to alleviate   
   poverty. The US Government used the pretext of the existence of   
   weapons   
   of mass destruction in Iraq, but later it became clear that that was   
   just a lie and a deception.   
      
   Although Saddam was overthrown and people are happy about his   
   departure, the pain and suffering of the Iraqi people has persisted   
   and   
   has even been aggravated.   
      
   In Iraq, about one hundred and fifty thousand American soldiers,   
   separated from their families and loved ones, are operating under the   
   command of the current US administration.  A substantial number of   
   them   
   have been killed or wounded and their presence in Iraq has tarnished   
   the image of the American people and government.   
      
   Their mothers and relatives have, on numerous occasions, displayed   
   their discontent with the presence of their sons and daughters in a   
   land thousands of miles away from US shores.  American soldiers often   
   wonder why they have been sent to Iraq.   
      
   I consider it extremely unlikely that you, the American people,   
   consent   
   to the billions of dollars of annual expenditure from your treasury   
   for   
   this military misadventure.   
      
   Noble Americans,   
      
   You have heard that the US administration is kidnapping its presumed   
   opponents from across the globe and arbitrarily holding them without   
   trial or any international supervision in horrendous prisons that it   
   has established in various parts of the world. God knows who these   
   detainees actually are, and what terrible fate awaits them.   
      
   You have certainly heard the sad stories of the Guantanamo and   
   Abu-Ghraib prisons. The US administration attempts to justify them   
   through its proclaimed "war on terror."  But every one knows that such   
   behavior, in fact, offends global public opinion, exacerbates   
   resentment and thereby spreads terrorism, and tarnishes the US image   
   and its credibility among nations.   
      
   The US administration's illegal and immoral behavior is not even   
   confined to outside its borders.  You are witnessing daily that under   
   the pretext of "the war on terror," civil liberties in the United   
   States are being increasingly curtailed.  Even the privacy of   
   individuals is fast losing its meaning. Judicial due process and   
   fundamental rights are trampled upon.  Private phones are tapped,   
      
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