UNITED NATIONS: British Prime Minister David Cameron held talks with Iran’s President Hassan Rowhani yesterday at the United Nations, the first meeting between the countries’ leaders since the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
The meeting took place at the British mission office at the United Nations as the General Assembly got underway. Rowhani posted a photograph of himself smiling as he shook hands with Cameron.
The British government says a key priority at the largest diplomatic gathering in the world is building broad-based support for the new government in Iraq and international action to confront jihadists in Iraq and Syria.
Rowhani criticised the US for not sending in ground troops, and on Monday said the people in the region were “defending themselves... against the terrorists” and that Iran would help.
Britain and France have taken up the task of trying to win some form of other cooperation from Iran against IS.
Cameron has promised to ask for parliamentary approval for any British involvement in the US-led military action against IS, but he appears wary of a repeat of last year’s humiliating defeat in the House of Commons over military action in Syria. AFP
