The presidents of the United States and Iran traded relatively conciliatory speeches on Tuesday [Sept. 24] that included the most forthcoming remarks ever by a US president toward the Islamic Republic of Iran — among them, an explicit renunciation of “regime change.”
But Barack Obama and Hassan Rouhani did not “bump” into each other in the corridors of the United Nations or at a heads of state luncheon, disappointing those who sought a more tangible sign of high-level US-Iran rapprochement.
