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President Barack Obama secretly wrote to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in the middle of last month and described a shared interest in fighting Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria, according to people briefed on the correspondence.
The letter appeared aimed both at buttressing the campaign against Islamic State and nudging Iran’s religious leader closer to a nuclear deal.
In a November 14 Friday sermon in Tehran, Ayatollah Ali -Khamenei said: “The Sejjil ballistic missile can hit and raze to the ground any place in Israel, as well as any American base in the region,” and the crowds responded with cries of: “Death to America! Death to England! Death to Israel!” The sermon was broadcast on Iran’s TV Channel 1.
