Trump refuses to meet Rouhani at UN summit

Bloomberg

President Donald Trump said he doesn’t want to meet with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani at a summit next week in New York.
“I’m not looking to meet him. I don’t think they’re ready yet. But they’ll be ready,” Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One. “At the right time, they’ll be ready. I never rule anything out, but I prefer not meeting him.”
Trump and Rouhani are both expected to attend the United Nations General Assembly next week.
The US president had entertained the idea of meeting his Iranian counterpart to try to open new talks on the 2015 nuclear deal Trump abandoned.
But Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said that his country won’t negotiate with the US at any level.
Iran has previously said it won’t talk with US officials unless Trump relaxes sanctions he implemented after leaving the nuclear accord.
“Sometimes they say negotiations without any precondition and sometimes with 12 conditions,” Khamenei said in comments published by the semi-official ISNA news agency.
“Such statements either come from their disheveled policies or are a ploy to confuse the other side.”