A failure of diplomacy

The World

Attempts to broker a meeting between Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and President Donald Trump at this week’s UN General Assembly collapsed. Brian Hook, the State Department’s special representative for Iran, tells host Marco Werman that all the blame lies with Tehran’s leaders.

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