The letter states that Iran has never initiated a war and has resolutely repelled those who have attacked it, and that portraying Iran as a threat is not consistent with historical reality or present-day observable facts.
The President invites Americans to look beyond the machinery of misinformation and consider the realities of Iran and its people, and to choose between confrontation and engagement, which will shape the future for generations to come.
Sounds very accurate (and a fuckton more rational than anything US “leadership” has said in the last year), except for two parts:
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I could be wrong, but I’m not sure the US considers Iran to be as special as they imagine themselves to be. All those military bases are hardly aimed solely at them, and I would’ve thought the sanctions against Cuba were longer and more comprehensive.
Just some minor quibbles about the writer’s hyperbole.