Reuters: The top adviser to Iran’s Supreme Leader on Tuesday rejected a U.S. offer for top-level meetings, as both countries’ presidents were due to attend the U.N. General Assembly in New York. Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards also kept up the anti-U.S. rhetoric in the build up to the U.N. session, calling President Donald Trump “evil and adventurous” and accusing him of waging economic war on Tehran. Trump pulled out of an international nuclear deal with Iran in May, and has since started reinstating economic penalties and pressing other countries to stop buying Iranian oil.
Trump said in July he was ready to meet Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani without preconditions to negotiate a new deal.
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo repeated the offer on Sunday and expanded it to Supreme leader Ayatollah Khamenei, telling Fox News: “That’s who’s running the show in Iran. I think that would be an important and interesting conversation.”
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