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  In a rare public outreach amid escalating tensions and an ongoing conflict, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian released an open letter Wednesday addressed to the people of the United States, signaling that diplomatic engagement could be preferable to continued confrontation. The letter, posted on social media and reported by Iranian state media as well as international outlets, comes hours before U.S. President Donald Trump was expected to address the American public on the war. Pezeshkian’s message mixes defensive assertions about Iran’s actions with conciliatory language toward ordinary Americans, insisting that Iran “harbors no enmity” toward the U.S. people or other nations.14ab1f “We have never, in our modern history, chosen the path of aggression, expansion, colonialism, or domination,” Pezeshkian wrote, according to excerpts published by multiple sources. He described Iran’s recent military responses as “a measured response grounded in legitimate self-defense” and argued ...