Iran ruled out any possibility of a meeting between President Hassan Rouhani and President Trump at the United Nations General Assembly next week as tensions between the two countries further escalate.

“Neither is such a plan on our agenda nor will such a thing happen,” Seyed Abbas Mousavi, a spokesman for the Iranian Foreign Ministry, said at a news conference, according to a Fars, a state-run outlet.

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