{"id":35682,"date":"2013-09-19T21:56:01","date_gmt":"2013-09-19T17:56:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=35682"},"modified":"2013-09-19T21:56:01","modified_gmt":"2013-09-19T17:56:01","slug":"president-rouhani-says-iran-wont-develop-nuclear-weapons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=35682","title":{"rendered":"President Rouhani says Iran won&#8217;t develop nuclear weapons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/hassan-rouhani.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-35680\" alt=\"hassan-rouhani\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/hassan-rouhani.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/hassan-rouhani.jpg 640w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/hassan-rouhani-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/hassan-rouhani-500x281.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a>Iranian President <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2013\/07\/10\/world\/meast\/hassan-rouhani-fast-facts\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Hassan Rouhani<\/a> vowed Wednesday that his country will never develop nuclear weapons, telling NBC News that he is open to diplomatically resolving issues surrounding his country&#8217;s controversial nuclear program.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with NBC&#8217;s Ann Curry, Rouhani said that &#8212; even with Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, a looming presence in Iranian society &#8212; he has &#8220;full power and has complete authority&#8221; to make a deal with others on nuclear matters.<\/p>\n<p>Yet Rouhani appeared relatively optimistic Wednesday. He spoke about getting a letter from U.S. President Barack Obama after his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2013\/08\/04\/world\/meast\/iran-president\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">recent election<\/a> and inauguration, saying the U.S. president congratulated him and raised certain issues. Rouhani said he wrote back offering Iran&#8217;s viewpoint, describing the tone of the exchange as &#8220;positive and constructive.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>If they do and there are &#8220;negotiations without threats,&#8221; Rouhani added, then &#8220;the way for interaction is open.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iranian President Hassan Rouhani vowed Wednesday that his country will never develop nuclear weapons, telling&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":35680,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[224,140,137],"tags":[739],"class_list":["post-35682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-region","category-world","tag-iran","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35682","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=35682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35682\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/35680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}