The Latest: Bolton says the U.S. is open to talks with Iran over its nuclear program; Israeli leader Netanyahu rallies U.S., Russia over Iran in Syria.
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — The Latest on tensions between the U.S. and Iran and in the Persian Gulf :Iran’s president is mocking President Donald Trump, going so far as to say that the White House is “afflicted by mental retardation.”
The comments by Hassan Rouhani come a day after the Trump administration sanctioned Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and his associates. An exasperated Rouhani said: “You sanction the foreign minister simultaneously with a request for talks?”Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel, the United States and Russia have a common objective to remove Iranian forces from Syria.
The three-way summit in Jerusalem with the American and Russian officials was expected to focus on Iranian involvement in conflicts across the region, particularly in neighboring Syria.U.S. National Security Adviser John Bolton says President Donald Trump is open to real negotiations and “all that Iran needs to do is walk through that open door”He says American envoys are surging across the region in hopes of finding a path out of escalating tensions between the U.S.
That’s according to a report carried by the state-run IRNA news agency on Tuesday, quoting the spokesman, Abbas Mousavi.
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