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Rouhani made the remarks while speaking in a meeting with US media officials in New York on Monday ahead of the 73rd annual session of the United Nations General Assembly.<\/p>\n\n

Asked whether he would meet with Trump similar to what North Korea\u2019s leader Kim Jong Un did in June, Rouhani said, \u201cComparing these two issues would not be [a] very accurate [comparison].\u201d<\/p>\n\n

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\u201cSince last year, the US president has withdrawn from a very important [nuclear] agreement [with Iran] for no reason\u00a0and has imposed sanctions and threatened the Iranian people and these measures cannot be easily ignored. The case of North Korea is very different from that of Iran,\u201d Rouhani said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

The US president announced in May that Washington was pulling out of the nuclear agreement, officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), which lifted nuclear-related sanctions against Tehran in exchange for restrictions on Tehran's nuclear program. The deal had been signed between Iran and the five permanent members of the UN Security Council plus Germany in 2015.<\/p>\n\n

The US administration reintroduced the previous sanctions while imposing new ones on the Islamic Republic. It also introduced punitive measures \u2014 known as secondary sanctions \u2014 against third countries doing business with Iran.<\/p>\n\n

A first round of American sanctions took effect in August, targeting Iran's access to the US dollar, metals trading, coal, industrial software, and auto sector. A second round, forthcoming on November 4, will be targeting Iran\u2019s oil sales and its Central Bank.<\/p>","content_source":"","content_url":"","content_columns":"0","content_date_start":"2018-09-25 10:38:51","content_date_finish":"2018-09-25 10:38:51","content_date_register":"2018-09-25 10:40:12","content_date_last_edit":"2018-09-25 10:40:12","content_show_img":"1","content_show_details":"0","content_show_related_img":"0","content_show_slider":"1","content_show_title_slider":"1","content_comment":"1","content_score":"0","content_recorded":"0","content_confirmed":"0","content_status":"1","content_kind":"0","tag_id":null,"tag_word":null,"tag_service":null,"tag_total":null,"tag_soundex":null,"attach_token":"1377475082","attach_date_register":"2018-09-25 10:39:35","attach_id":"4692","attach_file_ext":"jpg","attach_file_header":"image\/jpeg","attach_img_type":"2","attach_img_width":"650","attach_img_height":"365","attach_file_media":"1","attach_show_watermark":"0","score_average":null,"score_count":null,"score_date_last":null,"visit_count":"1873","visit_date_last":"2024-11-24 21:08:41","attach_title":"Rouhani rules out meeting with Trump in New York 2","node_title":"Iran,News,Ordinary","ot_node_left_right":"[{\"node_id\":98, \"left\":2, \"right\":11},{\"node_id\":117, \"left\":45, \"right\":46},{\"node_id\":127, \"left\":66, \"right\":67}]","node_number":"3","allowable_node":"3"}]]