Iran leader: time not right for another phone call

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UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani said Friday that the time isn’t right for another phone conversation or a meeting with President Barack Obama “because of the sensitivity that still exists between the two countries.”

One year ago, Obama and Rouhani came close to ending the decades-long freeze on face-to-face meetings between their countries’ leaders. Obama and Rouhani spoke by telephone for 15 minutes as the Iranian leader headed to the airport after his first appearance at the U.N. General Assembly’s annual meeting of world leaders.

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