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"It was delivered by the Swiss Embassy in Tehran, the first communication we know about between an Iranian and US president in 25 years," reports Jonathan Rugman.
So is President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's letter to America a stunt or an olive branch?
"America likes to say that there's a strategic consensus that Iran must not get the bomb.
"But there's no consensus on what to do if Iran masters nuclear technology even as the diplomatic process grinds endlessly on," reports Lindsey Hilsum.
As Iran contemplates the implications of a UN draft resolution - and goes on a global charm offensive - Channel 4 News looks at the world's response from China to France, from Russia to the US.
"Let them return to their own lands," President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told the press yesterday returning to one of his favourite themes - the Jews of Israel.
Addressing foreign journalists, he said: "You have created a problem in Palestine and must solve it yourselves," he added.
In response a number of bloggers have been quick to point out that Iran's president has conveniently ignored "the fact that a majority of Israel's Jewish population didn't come from Europe and has no ties to that continent".
Iran-Focus also reports Ahmadinejad's call to end Germany's war reparations dating back to World War II. The money was going to a “bunch of Zionists to suppress the Palestinian people”, he added.
The Government has been cracking down on text messaging, reports Shahram Rafiizadeh, who blogs under the name Rooz.
"Text messaging with political content, especially making fun of government officials has been rising in number and volume," says the Rooz blog. It's stll a new service in Iran - But it's already surpassed the popularity of the Internet.
It's not popular with everyone, though. President Admadinejad is keen to clean up what he sees as unacceptable use of text messaging, perhaps because some of those messages involve jokes about his personal hygiene.
Four arrests were made in connection with prohibited text messages, Rooz reports, the second time people in Iran have been arrested for unacceptable use of SMS.
Read the full report here. (Via A Daily Breifing on Iran)
The report in Sunday's New Yorker, that the US has intensified planning for a major air attack on Iran generated an enormous response in traditional media and the Blogosphere. But few Iranian English-language bloggers, in Iran or elsewhere, tackled the issue.
One of the few who did was Mr Behi.
"I am starting to believe that we are living in a haphazard time of human history! Can still not be live what I hear about the talks of using nuclear weapons against Iran's nuclear sites! Hey, do you hear me? We are people down here! Can you understand that?"
One of the perks of being President is free tickets to the World Cup - as long as your country qualifies for the finals, that is. So it's not surprising that, according to reports, President Ahmadinejad is keen to support his team in Germany.
He's an avid keen soccer fan, by all accounts, and the head of Iran's Football Federation told the Reuters news agency that the President was planning to make the trip.
But surely that won't be allowed, at least until the whole rumpus about nuclear weapons is sorted out? There's also the matter of Ahmadinejad questioning whether the Holocaust ever happened. Holocaust denial is a crime in Germany.
News from a front we don't hear much about – America's financial battle with Iran.
The Telegraph newspaper reports that Dana Rohrabacher, a US congressman who chairs an investigation into offshore banking and terrorism, has turned his wrath onto the Swiss bank UBS.
UBS has admitted supplying Iran, as well as Cuba, Libya and Saddam Hussein's Iraq with dollars obtained through a US Federal Reserve scheme in the 1990s, and paid a $100m fine, the paper said.
Rohrabacher is convinced there's more to discover. "There's another layer to the onion, and you can smell it. I simply do not believe that UBS would have taken such a risk unless there was something else going on," he told the paper.
"The Daily Mail and the Spectator are appalled that I have compromised my feminist principles. I feel a full confession is in order," writes Lindsey Hilsum in this week's New Statesman.
"I cannot tell a lie, not least because those who watch Channel 4 News saw my infraction. I wore a headscarf, live on air, while reporting from Iran."
"Let me tell you about the dirty business of covering the news, as opposed to commenting from afar. First, the facts. Yes, the Islamic Republic of Iran has a law saying women must cover their heads, so if female correspondents refuse to do so, only men will report from Iran. Oh dear, it's already getting complex - you compromise one principle to defend another."
See also: I predict Iranian cloned sheep
Hossein Derakhshan, profilic blogger and astute observer of the Iranian blogosphere, is probably better known to his readers as Hoder. He was in London on Thursday to talk politics, human rights and daily life. Ben King was there to listen in.
Even in the land of Jerry Springer, it's hard to imagine a Vice President blogging about his diet problems. But in Iran, it happened years ago
Mohammed Ali Abtahi, a former VP under the regime of Mohammed Khatami, keeps a weblog in English, Persian and Arabic.
Even when he was in power, he started blogging, at first discussing a range of intimate and even rather embarrassing personal issues, including the war with his waistline.
He may have jeopardised his dignity, but he's blogged his way to considerable popularity among the young people of Iran, who like teenagers everywhere, are a largely apathetic breed, says Hossein Derakhshan.
“That has worked for him very well and it has enabled him to show a very human picture of himself and other people in the Iranian government. Even young people are reading his blog. He would be one of the most famous politicians among that group,” he said.
A senior Iranian intelligence official showed Channel 4 News a letter in Persian purportedly signed by Zalmay Khalilzad, the US ambassador in Baghdad, inviting Iranian representatives to Iraq for talks - says Lindsey Hilsum writing in yesterday's Sunday Times.
Recalling a tip-off first revealed on this blog by Jon Snow in a post called Iran, saviour of Iraq?, Hilsum says the invitation was renewed two weeks ago, despite US denials.
"A source close to the Iranian government said Tehran was open to a meeting but it would have to be in a neutral country. While the Americans would like to limit discussions to Iraq, the Iranians hoped this might eventually enable them to have a dialogue about the nuclear programme."
See also: Iran, saviour of Iraq? and The roots of US mistrust of Iran.
