Erdoğan, Obama to talk Iran in Seoul
American and Turkish presidents will meet at the Nuclear Summit in South Korea and discuss deterring Iran’s nuclear program ahead of Erdoğan’s visit to Tehran
Ilan Ben Zion is an AFP reporter and a former news editor at The Times of Israel.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan will meet with US President Barack Obama at the Nuclear Summit in Seoul in late March and discuss Iran’s developing nuclear program.
World leaders will convene at the 2012 Nuclear Summit in South Korea to discuss the prevention of nuclear disasters. Iran’s unsanctioned and unmonitored nuclear program is firmly on the agenda.
The meeting of the two heads of state comes days before Erdoğan travels to Tehran to meet Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Erdoğan is expected try to convince the Ayatollahs to abandon their suspected weaponization of uranium.
Erdoğan’s visit comes at a critical time for Tehran. In the coming weeks, the Iranian regime might return to talks with Western states about halting its nuclear program. In the meantime Iran is suffering the effects of international financial sanction.
The Times of Israel Community.