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Iranian President Hassan Rouhani says carefully planned meetings that create conclusions we want are more important than symbolic handshakes. Photo by Thomas Koehler/Photothek via Getty ImagesNEW YORK To call what Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has undertaken in the last few weeks a charm offensive is understatement by any measure. Through diplomatic flirtation and apparent openness, Rouhani has set out to take the Obama administration, the U.S. news media, thought leaders and diplomats from around the world by storm. His goal To gain relief from the punishing sanctions the international co stanley cup mmunity has imposed on Iran as a way of cu adidas samba rbing any nuclear ambitions it might be harboring. His approach To persuade the watching world that he is a new kind of Iranian leader moderate, reasonable and shrewdly political.In a series of interviews including one tonight with PBS ; Charlie Rose Rouhani has declared he only wants peace, acknowledged unlike his immediate predecessor that adidas samba og the Holocaust was a crime against humanity and offered himself up as a moderate who is eager to find middle ground with the West.The one thing he did not do was shake President Obama hand, even when it was figuratively offered by U.S. diplomats.There really are no problems in terms of shaking Mr. Obama hand and negotiating, Mr. Rouhani told a meeting of news division presidents, anchors and foreign affairs columnists Wednesda
