New York Times: Iran Says Trump Sought Meeting With President 8 Times at U.N. Last Year
Iran rejected eight requests from the United States for a meeting of their presidents at the United Nations General Assembly last year, a top Iranian official said Wednesday.
The assertion, if confirmed, suggests a previously undisclosed level of hostility among top Iranian officials toward President Trump, who has called Iran a nuclear threat, regional menace and global sponsor of terrorism. It would also suggest a previously unknown eagerness by the Trump administration for some kind of dialogue.
White House and State Department officials did not immediately respond to the Iranian assertion, made by President Hassan Rouhani’s chief of staff, Mahmoud Vaezi, at a cabinet meeting reported in Iran’s state-run news media.
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WNU Editor: There may have been feelers out for a meeting .... but eight times?!?!?! I have some doubts .... one "no" is more than enough for the other side to get the message. But if reports that the White House did ask for a meeting are true .... it is too bad that the Iranian President declined. We may be in a different place today if the lines of communications between the two leaders were opened up last year.
