Iran’s president urges Biden to return to nuclear deal

Iran’s president Hassan Rouhani speaks at a meeting in Tehran (Iranian Presidency Office via AP)

Iran’s president has called on US president-elect Joe Biden to “compensate for past mistakes” and return the US to Tehran’s 2015 nuclear deal with world powers, a state-run news agency reported.

Hassan Rouhani’s comments mark the highest-level response from Iran to Mr Biden and vice president-elect Kamala Harris clinching the November 3 election.