US Iran letter may be timed for UN debate

WASHINGTON, May 8 (Reuters) US intelligence chief John Negroponte said today a letter Iran sent to the United States over its nuclear ambitions may have been timed to influence a UN Security Council debate on Iran.

''Given the fact that the issue of Iran is before the United Nations at this time, certainly one of the hypotheses you'd have to examine is whether and in what way the timing of the dispatch of that letter is connected with trying in some manner to influence the debate before the Security Council,'' Negroponte told reporters.

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