Letters to the Editor: What Michael D Higgins left out of his letter to Iran's new president 

A reader says the President should have challenged the new Iranian leader on issues including Iran's funding and arming Hamas and Hezbollah and violations of human rights of its own citizens

Michael D Higgins is not above criticism, a reader suggests. Picture: James Warwick/PA

I can’t understand why our President  decided to pick a fight with the Israeli Embassy over his now infamous letter congratulating Iran on its new president. 

When asked by the press about the criticism of his letter, the President threw out a question to the media at the UN: “Why don’t you ask where it came from?” He then went on to accuse the Israeli embassy in Ireland of circulating his letter.