Iran’s president, Ebrahim Raisi, has ruled out a meeting with Joe Biden on the margins of the UN general assembly (UNGA) this week, saying he saw no “changes in reality” from the Trump administration.
Raisi underlined the firm position of his government and dampened hopes that a week of summitry at the UNGA in New York might yield any progress in negotiations to revive the 2015 nuclear deal. Washington has rejected the latest Iranian bargaining positive as “not constructive”, and most observers believe there will be no breakthroughs at least until after the US congressional elections in November.
