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Indyplus video: Obama holds call with Iran's Rouhani for the first time since 1979

 

Saturday 28 September 2013 18:10 BST
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President Barack Obama has spoken on the phone with Iran's President Rouhani, marking the first contact between leaders of both countries in more than three decades.

Obama told reporters at the White House that the conversation, believed to have been instigated by the Iranian leader, was constructive.

Watch excerpts from the press conference below:

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