[rmnunez]

It is very wrong for the Iranian president to communicate this way to the general population of the US (or any other country). Foreign Heads of State are supposed to use other interlocutors to communicate with each other's subjects. Additionally, any reference to domestic concerns (foreign to the author) is highly objetionable. I could accept a foreign head of state publicly criticising another country's foreign policy, especially as it impacts that head of state's country, but remarks on things like due process guarantees and privacy expectations in judicial proceedings are completely improper. How would you expect the French would react to an open letter from Bush remarking on Chirac's demerits in immigration policy? What do you think reaction in Iran would be like if Bush suggested they ought to relax with their Sharia? I'm sure many would recognize French immigration policy and Iranian jurisprudence are none of Bush's business, so I can't see why due process guarantees or individual liberties in the US should be the concern of the Iranian president.