Iran’s president told President Bush that the Iranian people do not understand “the phenomenon of Israel.” “Throughout history, many countries have been occupied, but I think the establishment of a new country with a new people is a new phenomenon that is exclusive to our times,” Mahmoud Ahmadinejad wrote in an 18-page letter to Bush.
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