TEHRAN, June 19: Iran said on Sunday that a rapprochement with Washington was impossible until the US stopped interfering in Tehran’s domestic affairs. Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi also fired back at US accusations that Iran’s presidential poll was a sham.

“We are willing to hold a survey to see whether it is Iran or the US which is pursuing real democracy,” he told reporters here.

“When America continues to interfere in Iran’s state matters and supports Iranian opposition groups and so on, there is no room for a change in relations,” Mr Kharrazi added.

The US severed ties in the aftermath of the 1979 revolution after students stormed the US embassy and held 52 Americans hostage for 444 days.—Reuters