Rouhani: We can manage our differences with the US

He says he listened carefully to Obama’s speech and believes “we can arrive at a framework to manage our differences.”

This would be based on mutual respect and the principles of international law.

He asks the UN to consider a project: The World Against Violence and Extremism. He invites all states and institutions to join the effort, instead of “ineffective coalitions for war.”

The Islamic Republic invites the world community to take a step forward toward “a world against violence and extremism,” and urges: “Open a new horizon in which peace will prevail over war, tolerance over violence, progress over blood letting, justice over discrimination, prosperity over poverty, and freedom over despotism.” Quoting an Iranian poet, he says: “Be relentless in striving for the cause of good.”

The future will be bright if the world rejects violence and extremism, he concludes. His hope, he says, “from the belief shared by all religions… the Koran… the Torah… ‘that My virtuous servants will inherit the Earth.'”