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11:59, 19-Jul-2018
Iran says Trump offers meeting with Rouhani
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11:47, 22-Jul-2018
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Iranian President Hassan Rouhani received eight requests from his US counterpart for a meeting, presidential chief of staff Mahmoud Vaezi announced on Wednesday.
Vaezi said US President Donald Trump's requests were made during Rouhani's visit to New York for a United Nations General Assembly meeting in September 2017, according to Tehran Times daily.
Pro-Palestinian protestors are burning an effigy of US President Donald Trump at the anti-Israeli rally on June 8, 2018 marking Qods day in Tehran, Iran. /VCG Photo
Pro-Palestinian protestors are burning an effigy of US President Donald Trump at the anti-Israeli rally on June 8, 2018 marking Qods day in Tehran, Iran. /VCG Photo
He did not elaborate, however, about Rouhani's response to Trump's meeting invitation.
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Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif (front) ahead of a ministerial meeting on Iran's nuclear program in Vienna. /VCG Photo
Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif (front) ahead of a ministerial meeting on Iran's nuclear program in Vienna. /VCG Photo
In September 2013, Rouhani and former US President Barack Obama talked over the phone during the 68th annual session of the UN General Assembly. It was the highest-level contact between the two countries in more than three decades.
(Cover: President Hassan Rouhani during a meeting in Tehran on July 14, 2018. /VCG Photo )
Source(s): Xinhua News Agency