Ahmadinejad writes the Pope after UN votes sanctions

AP/Washington Times:

Pope Benedict XVI received a letter yesterday from Iran's hard-line president about the recent U.N. Security Council resolution imposing sanctions on Tehran for refusing to compromise on its nuclear program, Iran's state-run news agency reported.
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's letter was delivered by Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki after the pontiff's general audience at the Vatican's Paul VI hall, the Vatican said.
The Vatican did not release details of the content of the letter, but Iran's state-run Islamic Republic News Agency said the note focused on Saturday's Security Council vote approving sanctions on Tehran.
The Vatican said Benedict stressed his apolitical role in his brief meeting with Mr. Mottaki.
The pope "reaffirmed the role that the Holy See intends to carry out for world peace, not as a political authority but as a religious and moral one ... so that peoples' problems will always be solved in dialogue, mutual understanding and peace," the Vatican said.
Meanwhile, Iran's parliament voted yesterday to urge the government to re-examine its ties with the Vienna, Austria-based International Atomic Energy Agency after the Security Council vote.
The move signaled that Iran was likely to reduce its cooperation with the U.N. nuclear agency. Iranian state radio predicted that once the bill came into effect, "the agency will become an ineffective and weak body."
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Most of us already thought the IAEA was an ineffective weak body. If it were effective it would have done something about Iran's nuke program years ago. Meanwhile, the Pope is got to be thinking, "why is the weirdo sending me this whacked out letter?"

Gateway Pundit has more on the letter. This letter does raise the interesting question of whether the Iranians think opposition to the nuke program is religious.

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