The chief of staff to Iran's President Hassan Rouhani today said that his US counterpart Donald Trump asked for a meeting eight times during the UN General Assembly last year.
"During Rouhani's last visit to New York for the UN General Assembly session, Trump asked the Iranian delegation eight times to have a meeting with the president," Mahmoud Vaezi told reporters today, according to the conservative Mehr news agency.
He said the Iranian team had not responded to the requests, which came just after