Cameron to Meet Rouhani: Help Us against ISIL

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British Prime Minister David Cameron will meet Iranian President Hassan Rouhani in the next two days in New York and ask him for help to fight ISIL, the first meeting between leaders of the two nations since Tehran's 1979 Islamic Revolution.

Cameron will meet Rouhani on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly, a source in the British leader's office told Reuters, speaking after the United States and Arab partners struck ISIL targets inside Syria.

Cameron is in New York to try to bolster international action against ISIL and to clarify his own country's position when it comes to air strikes, something London has so far held off participating in.

Britain said in June it would reopen its embassy in Tehran after a hiatus of more than two and a half years after relations between the two countries began to thaw after last year's election of Rouhani.

Cameron is also expected to hold talks with US President Barack Obama in New York about the possibility of Britain joining air strikes against ISIL, something he has signaled he would need the approval of the British parliament to do.

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team