
Must suck being President of the United States and still nobody respects you.
(AP) – Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani said Friday that the time isn’t right for another phone conversation or a meeting with President Barack Obama “because of the sensitivity that still exists between the two countries.”
One year ago, Obama and Rouhani came close to ending the decades-long freeze on face-to-face meetings between their countries’ leaders. Obama and Rouhani spoke by telephone for 15 minutes as the Iranian leader headed to the airport after his first appearance at the U.N. General Assembly’s annual meeting of world leaders.
It was the first time the presidents of the United States and Iran had talked directly since the 1979 Iranian revolution and siege of the American embassy. The conversation was hailed as an historic breakthrough.
Rouhani, peppered with questions about a repeat conversation at a news conference before heading home after this year’s ministerial meeting, said: “Not a meeting nor a telephone call had been included in the agenda nor been planned for, … nor intended to be a part of our visit this year to the U.N. General Assembly.”
