Rouhani says Iran ready to accept friendly US ties if it ‘repents’

6 February 2019, 9:52 pm

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Iranian President Hassan Rouhani says his country would be ready to establish “friendly relations” with the United States if it apologized for past wrongs.

“Our slogan is friendly relations with the whole world,” he says.

That would even include “America, if it repents… and apologizes for its previous interferences in Iran, and is prepared to accept the greatness and dignity of the nation of Iran and the great Islamic Revolution,” he said.

“We are still ready to accept America’s… repentance despite the fact that for years it has done injustice to us,” he tells foreign diplomats in Tehran during a ceremony to mark the 40th anniversary of Iran’s Islamic Revolution.

— AFP