{"id":35030,"date":"2013-09-17T19:16:04","date_gmt":"2013-09-17T15:16:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=35030"},"modified":"2013-09-17T19:16:04","modified_gmt":"2013-09-17T15:16:04","slug":"obama-reaches-out-to-iranian-president-and-sets-stage-for-first-meeting-since-1979-revolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=35030","title":{"rendered":"Obama &#8216;reaches out&#8217; to Iranian president and sets stage for first meeting since 1979 revolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/President-Barack-Obama.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-35028\" alt=\"President Barack Obama\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/President-Barack-Obama.jpg\" width=\"634\" height=\"358\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/President-Barack-Obama.jpg 634w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/President-Barack-Obama-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/President-Barack-Obama-500x282.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 634px) 100vw, 634px\" \/><\/a>President Barack Obama has admitted exchanging letters with the Iranian president, Hassan Rouhani, in a move which could set the stage for the first meeting between a U.S. and Iranian leader since Iran&#8217;s 1979 revolution.<\/p>\n<p>It is hoped a meeting could lead to a solution in the row over Iran&#8217;s nuclear weapons programme, which Obama said is &#8216;larger than the Syrian crises&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Foreign secretary William Hague is also said to be due to meet Mohammad Javad Zarif, Iran&#8217;s minister of foreign affairs, at the UN general assembly meeting in New York.<\/p>\n<p>But Obama admitted that it would not be easy.<\/p>\n<p>In a television interview aired on ABC News, on Sunday, when asked whether he and Rouhani had &#8216;reached out&#8217; to each other, Obama confirmed that they had exchanged letters, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2013\/sep\/15\/obama-rouhani-united-nations-meeting\" target=\"_blank\">Guardian <\/a>reports.<\/p>\n<p>Obama said: &#8216;I have. And he&#8217;s reached out to me. We haven&#8217;t spoken directly&#8230;&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>He added: &#8216;Negotiations with the Iranians is always difficult.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I think this new president is not going to suddenly make it easy.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Barack Obama has admitted exchanging letters with the Iranian president, Hassan Rouhani, in a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":35028,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[224,143,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-usa","category-world","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35030\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/35028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}