No Plans For Joe Biden To Meet Iran's New Leader: White House

White House press secretary Jen Psaki said little had changed because Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is the key decision maker in Iran.

There are currently no plans for US President Joe Biden to meet with Iran's newly elected leader, according to the White House, which downplayed Ebrahim Raisi's influence. Raisi, a strident critic of the West, will take over from pragmatist Hassan Rouhani on August 3 after an election on Friday. In a news conference on Monday, he backed talks to salvage a tattered nuclear deal with Washington but ruled out personally meeting with Biden. White House press secretary Jen Psaki said on Monday that little had changed because Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is the key decision maker in Tehran.