On the Letter
At the beginning of May, I posted a letter I wrote to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the president of Iran. Before I go any further, let me explain that I had no real intention of actually mailing the letter to Tehran, I was just very proud of the letter.
As for the actual assignment, it was an in class essay. We had 40 minutes to write a persuasive letter to any one of a list of three historical and modern leaders. This was inspired by the letter Albert Einstein wrote to Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1939 relating to nuclear arms.
I decided to write to the president of Iran. The viewpoint in the letter is one not held by many of my peers nor many of the people I have talked to about it. I believe everybody has a right to nuclear power. It is easier on the environment and they cut dependency on oil.
I revised the essay the week following its inception and posted the final copy online one night. I woke up the next morning to a comment by Mani informing me that Ahmadinejad is a liar and cannot be trusted. He later posted a link on his Farsi weblog and, ever since then, I have had a steady stream of traffic to it. I googled my name today and found that my letter had been translated into Persian (correct me if I am wrong on that).
I would like to thank everybody for their comments on the letter… I have read all of them.
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why we are not afraid of other countries with nuclear bomb.Iran had not attack any country for more than 100 years.The problem Iran has with Israel is safty and freedom of palastenians.How can Iran drop an atomic bomb on Israil without distroing palestinians,herfself and mideleast.who had used atomic bomb ia the past?This is a propagada inorder Iran not to be able to enter world market to cell nuclier fuel to other countries .Iran has a large urinum reserve in her mine. No country can use atomic bomb against anoter country with out distroing our PLANET.