Report: Iran refutes claim supreme leader wrote US president
Iran has denied a report that its supreme leader wrote a letter to US President Barack Obama, the Islamic Republic's official news agency reported, as the country negotiates with world powers over its contested nuclear program.
The IRNA news agency quoted Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Marzieh Afkham as saying the report Saturday by the Wall Street Journal was "an unprofessional media game."
"The US president has a record of sending letters and in some cases Iran responded to his letters," Afkham said Sunday. Neither she nor the IRNA report elaborated on her comments, though Afkham said Iran had no immediate plans to write Obama again.
