Of God and men

摘要

The diplomatic effort to defuse the gathering crisis over Iran's nuclear ambitions is sufficiently stuck that anyone involved (bar China's godless Communists) might have been tempted to invoke the Almighty. Yet the litany of taunts and complaints in a letter from Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who chose to address President George Bush this week-the first such direct communication between the leaders of the two countries since Iran's 1979 revolution—as one believer to (he had heard) another, hardly seems likely to break the impasse.