Iranian President Hassan Rouhani rejected a request by U.S. President Donald Trump for face-to-face talks on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York last month, Iranian officials claimed on Sunday.
"U.S. President Trump invited President Rouhani to a face-to-face meeting during Mr. Rouhani's visit to New York to participate in the UN annual conference in September but our president turned down the offer," a senior Iranian official, Mahdi Faza'eli, claimed, according to semiofficial Iranian news agency Fars.
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