DAR AL HARB / ISLAM - IRAN & U.S.A.: IRAN RECEIVES A LETTER FROM THE UNITED STATES

Iran receives letter from US officials

Tehran: Iran's foreign ministry spokesman said yesterday that Tehran has received a letter from the United States which sought to resolve a dispute between the two countries.

"There has been a message from American officials," the spokesman, Mohammad Ali Hussaini, told reporters at a press conference in Tehran.

Hussaini did not provide any information on the content of the note, or identify the US officials who sent it, saying only that Tehran was "studying" the note.

"In the message, [they] want to ease the current case, which was unfortunately complicated because of policies of the United States and some other countries' officials," Hussaini said.

Hussaini's wording indicated the case was that of the arrests earlier this month of five Iranians in the northern Iraqi city of Arbil, at an Iranian mission there.

While Tehran has claimed the five, detained by US troops, were diplomats and protested their arrests, Washington contends the men had been connected to an Iranian Revolutionary Guard faction that funds and arms insurgents in Iraq.

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