Iran's Rouhani may meet Obama at UN after American president reaches out
An exchange of letters between Barack Obama and the Iranian president, Hassan Rouhani, has set the stage for a possible meeting between the two men at the UN next week in what would be the first face-to-face encounter between a US and Iranian leader since Iran's 1979 revolution.
Britain's foreign secretary, William Hague, is also due to meet his Iranian counterpart, Mohammad Javad Zarif, at the UN general assembly meeting in New York, adding to guarded optimism that the June election of Rouhani, a Glasgow-educated moderate, and his appointment of a largely pragmatic cabinet, has opened the door to a diplomatic solution to the 11-year international standoff over Iran's nuclear programme.
In a television interview aired on Sunday, Obama made clear that there was a diplomatic opening with Iran, not only over the nuclear question but also over Syria. He confirmed earlier reports that he and Rouhani had "reached out" to each other, exchanging letters.
Trita Parsi, head of the National Iranian American Council and an expert on US-Iran diplomacy, said "Tehran is already claiming some of the credit for the Syria deal. Rouhani needs to show that through his diplomatic efforts he has already avoided a war. He is desperate in his first six months to show his approach has paid more dividends than the hardline approach of his predecessor."
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/15/obama-rouhani-united-nations-meeting
One can hope this meeting will bring about progress using diplomacy.
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PNAC!!!1!!(one)11!!!
Why would Obama meet with him prior to incinerating his country?
That makes no sense.
Or maybe DUers are actually wrong?
