MK Nadia Hilou (Labor) sent a letter to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad two weeks ago, but the Iranians refused to take it.

Hilou gave the letter to the Austrian ambassador in Israel, who sent it on to the Austrian embassy in Tehran. The Austrian ambassador in Tehran then tried to pass it on to an Iranian deputy minister, but the Iranian stepped back and refused to take the letter.

Hilou had written Ahmadinejad that she is turning to him as the representative of the Arab minority in Israel. "I call upon you to change the course you have taken, to stop threatening and inciting against Israel and to give peace between the nations a chance," the Christian-Arab MK wrote.