Iranian President Hassan Rouhani arrives at Mehrabad Airport in Tehran, Iran on September 28, 2013. On Friday September 27, 2013, before Rouhani's departure from New York, the Iranian president and American President Barack Obama held a telephone conversation. The call was the first direct communication between an Iranian and a US president since Iran's Islamic Revolution in 1979. UPI/Maryam Rahmanian
In this official photograph by the White House, United States President Barack Obama talks with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani during a phone call in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, DC on September 27, 2013. This marked the first conversation of the leaders of both countries in 30 years. The two agreed to defuse the dispute over Iran's nuclear program. UPI
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