Iranian President Hassan Rouhani says he wants to reach a deal with world powers on Tehran's nuclear programme in three to six months. He told the Washington Post he saw a resolution of the issue as a "beginning point" in easing US-Iran relations. Mr Rouhani said he was fully empowered by Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, to negotiate ...

The Sukkot holiday has come at a time of raised hopes for the small Jewish community in Iran of a new approach towards minorities under the Islamic republic's new President Hasan Rouhani. In a radical about-turn from his Holocaust-denying predecessor, Rouhani, in an interview with CNN, condemned the Nazi genocide as a "reprehensible" crime. "Any ...

Following up his address to the United Nations, President Hassan Rouhani has declared ina CNN interview, I would like to say to American people: I bring peace and friendship from Iranians to Americans. Rouhani said the Supreme Leader supported his efforts for a nuclear agreement with the US and other powers I think that the President of Iran has ...

The prospect of an international rapprochement with Iran's President Hasan Rouhani has some Israeli officials missing his more blunt predecessor,Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Though Mr. Ahmadinejad made threats about the destruction of Israel and engaged in Holocaust denial, his remarks helped to stir sympathy for the Jewish state while isolating Iran. Mr....

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Tuesday delivered his first English-language TV message to the American people in an interview with CNN's Christiane Amanpour. "I would like to say to American people: I bring peace and friendship from Iranians to Americans," he said. Rouhani is in many ways the "it" man of this U.N. General Assembly, where Western ...

(Reuters) - Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Tuesday called the Holocaust a "reprehensible" crime committed by the Nazis against the Jewish people but said it was up to historians to determine the scale of what happened. "I am not a historian and when it comes to speaking of the dimensions of the Holocaust it is the historians that should reflect,...