German Chancellor Snubs Ahmadinejad
The Islamic Republic News Agency website contains a short notice on the headlines from German newspapers for the 21st of July. All the headlines mention the letter written by Iranian President Ahmadinejad to German Chancellor Angela Merkel. What the IRNA story does not state, is that the letter did not play very well.
German official spokesperson Ulrich Wilhelm informed Der Spiegel that the ten-page letter contained "many claims that are not acceptable to us, in particular about Israel, the state of Israel's right to exist and the Holocaust." Chancellor Merkel, Wilhelm reports, has no intention of replying: "The German government does not have the intention of entering into correspondence with the Iranian president." The Germans, unfortunately, do not plan to release a copy of the letter.
