Can Rouhani Deliver?
As world powers meet in Geneva to begin nuclear talks with Iran, the world awaits the follow-up to the phone call between Rouhani and US President Barack Obama. With Rouhani, unlike his moderate predecessors, supported by Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, a breakthrough in bilateral relations could be near.
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NEW YORK – As world powers meet in Geneva to begin nuclear talks with Iran, the world awaits the follow-up to the phone call between Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and US President Barack Obama after Rouhani’s visit to the United Nations General Assembly last month. That brief conversation – the first between the two countries’ presidents since 1979 – recalls the last attempt to revive bilateral diplomacy, undertaken 12 years ago by Iran’s then-President Mohammad Khatami. In both episodes, a missing handshake symbolized the countries’ persistent rift.