Iran's president Hassan Rouhani made clear he wanted to "rebuild and improve" relations with the West, in comments published in Germany's Sueddeutsche Zeitung.
President Rouhani said,
President Rouhani said,
"We want to rebuild and improve our relations to European and North American countries on a basis of mutual respect,"Stating that Iran could not forget everything that had take place over the past 60 years between itself and the US, Rouhani said, "We must now concentrate on the present and orientate ourselves towards the future."
"We are striving to avoid new burdens on relations between Iran and the United States and also to remove the tensions that we have inherited,"