{"id":8715,"date":"2017-10-31T10:24:50","date_gmt":"2017-10-31T15:24:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/?p=8715"},"modified":"2017-10-31T10:24:50","modified_gmt":"2017-10-31T15:24:50","slug":"white-house-denies-irans-president-rouhani-snubbed-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/8715\/","title":{"rendered":"White House Denies #Iran\u2019s President Rouhani Snubbed #Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>TEHRAN, Iran, NBC News, Oct. 30, 2017<\/strong> \u2014 The White House on Monday denied the Iranian government&#8217;s claim that President Donald Trump asked to meet with his counterpart from the Islamic republic last month but was turned down.<br \/>\nAccording to Iran&#8217;s semi-official Fars news agency, Trump requested a meeting Iranian President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mojahedin.org\/newsen\/24252\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Hassan Rouhani <\/a> after giving a speech to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mojahedin.org\/eventsen\/121\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> United Nations <\/a> condemning Iran as a &#8216;murderous regime&#8217; focused on the &#8216;pursuit of death and destruction.&#8217;<br \/>\nBahram Ghassemi, a spokesman for Iran&#8217;s foreign ministry, told a press conference Sunday that the report carried by Fars earlier in the day was correct.<br \/>\nWhite House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders told NBC News in a brief email early Monday that this statement was &#8216;false.&#8217;<br \/>\nTrump has declined to certify the Iran nuclear deal, which lifted sanctions in exchange for the country curbing its nuclear program.<br \/>\nThis puts its future in the hands of Congress, which will now have to decide whether to attach new conditions or reimpose sanctions with regard to the country&#8217;s nuclear program.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><em>\u00a0FROM OCT. 13: Trump Threatens to Cancel Iran Deal, Passes Baton to Congress<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>In 2013, President Barack Obama and Rouhani spoke by telephone, the highest-level contact between the two countries in decades, prompting an outcry from Iranian hardliners.<br \/>\nSince then there has been no such communication between the heads of state in Tehran and Washington, which officially severed diplomatic ties in 1979.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>TEHRAN, Iran, NBC News, Oct. 30, 2017 \u2014 The White House on Monday denied the Iranian government&#8217;s claim that President Donald Trump asked to meet <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/8715\/\" title=\"White House Denies #Iran\u2019s President Rouhani Snubbed #Trump\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8716,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,5],"tags":[92,159,190],"class_list":["post-8715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-iran-world","category-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-hassan-rouhani","tag-iran-deal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8715"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8717,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8715\/revisions\/8717"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}