let's hope some positive news comes from these negotiations.
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Iran's leader sends letter to Bush
8:26 PM May 8
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has written a letter to US President George W Bush to "propose new ways" to resolve tensions, the Iranian Government spokesman said.
"President Ahmadinejad has written a letter to George Bush, which is to be handed to the Swiss embassy," Gholam Hossein Elham said.
It is the first time an Iranian president has been known to officially communicate with an American president since Washington and Tehran cut off diplomatic relations in 1980.
"In this letter, while analysing the world situation and finding the roots of the problems, he has proposed new ways for getting out of the existing vulnerable world situation," the spokesman said.
The United States and Iran are at loggerheads over Tehran's nuclear program which Washington suspects is a cover for ambitions to build atomic weapons.
Washington also accuses Iran of supporting "terrorist" groups across the Middle East region.
Washington has not had diplomatic relations with Iran since April 1980, following the seizure of the US embassy in Tehran in 1979 in which 52 Americans were held for 444 days.
The Swiss Government assumed the representation of US interests in Iran in 1981, and has since been acting as a conduit for messages between the two arch-enemies.
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