Tehran rules out a meeting between the Iranian president and Donald Trump at sidelines of UN General Assembly opening this month.

Axar.az reports citing INN that Iranian President Hassan Rouhani will not meet with President Donald Trump in New York later this month, an Iranian Foreign Ministry official announced Monday.

Speaking with reporters Monday morning, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Seyyed Abbas Mousavi said that his government had ruled out a meeting between President Rouhani and President Donald Trump at the sidelines of the opening of the United Nations General Assembly this month.

The announcement came after President Trump said Sunday that reports he was willing to meet with Rouhani with no preconditions were “fake news”.

“Secretary Pompeo, I and the rest of the national security team are executing on a maximum pressure strategy with Iran. There’s no question that it’s working. We have cut off their money. And that’s the reason why if they do come back to the negotiating table, they are coming back,” he added.