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Iranian president says in letter that Iran harbors no enmity towards ordinary Americans

AL-MONITOR
Apr 1, 2026
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian speaks during a visit to the shrine of the leader of Iran's 1979 Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, in southern Tehran, Iran, January 31, 2026. Iran's Presidential website/WANA (West Asia News Agency)/Handout via REUTERS
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian speaks during a visit to the shrine of the leader of Iran's 1979 Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, in southern Tehran, Iran, January 31, 2026. Iran's Presidential website/WANA (West Asia News Agency)/Handout via REUTERS — ABOUTALEB NADRI/Iran's President

April 1 (Reuters) - Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said in a letter addressed to the American people that his country harbors no enmity towards ordinary Americans, Press TV reported on Wednesday.

He said in his letter that portraying Iran as a threat was "neither consistent with historical reality nor with present-day observable facts."

(Reporting by Menna Alaa El-Din; Editing by Chris Reese)

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