Majlis Deputy Mehrdad Bazrpash (photo) caused quite a stir in Tehran Monday when he said President Obama had sent a “secret letter” to Tehran on the nuclear talks. Within a few hours, the White House said Obama had sent Tehran no letters recently, secret or otherwise. Bazrpash tried to make anti-American political hay, saying, “In their private messages, they [American leaders] ask the Islamic Republic of Iran to come to the negotiating table and make an agreement, but they threaten Iran in their media and before the eyes of their own and other countries’ peoples.” Bazrpash was a vice president under President Ahmadi-nejad.
