Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said today that his country’s nuclear stand-off with the West can be solved through dialogue, adding that he was ready to talk about “new conditions”.

PROFESSOR Michael Wald (Irish Examiner letters, September 6) claims that in 1947, “700,000 Arabs left the areas they lived in” of their own free will because of “the promise by the Arab invaders that they would soon regain their own homes as well as taking those of the Israelis when they were driven back into the sea”.