World News | Iranian President: No plans to meet Biden at UN General Assembly

TEHRAN, Sept. 19 (AP) Iran’s president traveled Monday to New York where he will address the United Nations General Assembly later this week, saying he has no plans to meet with President Joe Biden during the U.N. event.

President Ebrahim Raisi spoke at Tehran airport before leaving as talks to revive Iran’s tattered nuclear deal with world powers remained stalled.

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“There are no plans to meet or negotiate with U.S. leaders,” Rice said. “We don’t have any plans to meet with them.”

Iran’s president called his appearance at the United Nations an opportunity to explain to the world what unspecified nations and world powers have called “maliciousness” toward Iran. He did not elaborate.

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Accompanied by Iranian Foreign Minister Hussein Amir Abdullahian and nuclear negotiator Ali Bagheri al-Kani, Raisi will address the United Nations General Assembly and the UNESCO Conference on Religions.

Negotiations between Iran and world powers to revive the 2015 nuclear deal remain stalled, although Tehran and Washington have exchanged written responses in recent months over details of a roadmap that would lift sanctions on Iran in exchange for it curbing its A rapidly advancing nuclear program.

Iran and the US have not had diplomatic relations since 1979, when the US embassy was taken over by radical students in Tehran.

On Sunday, CBS’ “60 Minutes” aired an interview with Raisi in which he said the United States cannot be trusted and demanded assurances that Washington would not withdraw from the nuclear deal again, as President Donald Trump did in 2018.

Raisi also told CBS that Iran is open to discussing the prisoner exchange with the United States, defending Iran’s anti-Israel stance and saying that Tehran is committed to “seeking for the killing of General Qassem Soleimani, the top commander of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards”. justice”. The U.S. airstrike on Baghdad in January 2020. (Associated Press)

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