President Barack Obama will not meet with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani today at the U.N. General Assembly, White House officials say.
Both leaders were speaking on the first day of the annual gathering of world leaders in New York.
It would have been the first face-to-face encounter between a U.S. President and Iranian leader since 1977.
Secretary of State John Kerry will join his Iranian counterpart, Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, at a Thursday meeting of the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council, plus Germany. Discussions will surround restarting talks on Iran's nuclear program. Ref. CNN
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Three out of four Americans favor direct diplomatic negotiations between the U.S. And Iran in an attempt to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons, with 21% opposed, according to a new CNN/ORC International poll.
President Barack Obama spoke on the phone Friday with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani -- the first direct conversation between leaders in Washington and Tehran since 1979 -- raising the possibility a deal can be reached over Iran's nuclear program.
The poll was conducted for CNN by ORC International September 27-29, with 803 adults nationwide questioned by telephone. The survey's overall sampling error is plus or minus 3.5 percentage points. Ref. CNN
Iran open to talks with US on nuclear program, foreign minister says:
Iran's foreign minister says his country is open to negotiating about its top-secret nuclear program, including possible inspections, but that the United States must "Dismantle its illegal sanctions." Ref. Source 3
Hopes raised for US-Iran talks but hawks in Congress threaten any deal:
Negotiations over Iran's nuclear program could be undermined by a reluctance on the part of the US Congress to relax a complex network of economic sanctions, according to experts and diplomats monitoring forthcoming talks in Geneva. Ref. Source 3
Iran rejects demand to ship out uranium stockpiles:
Iran on Sunday rejected the West's demand to send sensitive nuclear material out of the country but signalled flexibility on other aspects of its atomic activities that worry world powers, ahead of renewed negotiations this week. Ref. Source 5
US and Iran Speak 'Same Language' in Nuclear Talks:
"The good news, we are getting to a place where one can imagine we could possibly have a process that could lead to an agreement," A senior US administration official, speaking not for attribution, told journalists Wednesday at the end of two days of nuclear negotiations here, the first since the June election of Iranian President Hassan Rouhani. Ref. Source 4