New York, September 25: Iran and the United States both have said they were open to a new round of nuclear talks, but their fierce enmity was again revealed by a war of words over the September 11, 2001 terror attacks.
US President Barack Obama and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad were both in the spotlight — though they never met — at the UN General Assembly meetings, on a day of dueling rhetoric and diplomatic jockeying.
Ahmadinejad said an Iranian official may meet European Union foreign affairs chief Catherine Ashton next month in a bid to open new international talks on a program which the West says is a quest for nuclear weapons.
–PTI