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Obama wrote to Khamenei

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U.S. President Barack Obama speaks at a press conference in the East Room of the White House, in Washington D.C., the United States, Nov. 5, 2014. U.S. President Barack Obama on Wednesday said he was ready to work with Republicans who defeated Democrats and cruised to victory, becoming the majority party in both chambers of Congress after Tuesday's midterm election.
U.S. President Barack Obama speaks at a press conference in the East Room of the White House, in Washington D.C., the United States, Nov. 5, 2014. U.S. President Barack Obama on Wednesday said he was ready to work with Republicans who defeated Democrats and cruised to victory, becoming the majority party in both chambers of Congress after Tuesday’s midterm election.

US President Barack Obama has written to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to express a “shared interest” in fighting the Islamic State extremist group in Iraq and Syria, a media report said here Thursday.

The letter was sent in the middle of last month, in which the president tied potential cooperation on fighting extremists to a comprehensive deal over Iran’s controversial nuclear programme, Xinhua quoted a Wall Stree Journal report as saying.

In the letter, Obama stressed that “any cooperation on Islamic State was largely contingent on Iran reaching a comprehensive agreement with global powers on the future of Tehran’s nuclear programme by Nov 24 diplomatic deadline”, the report added.

Foreign ministers of the US, the European Union and Iran are scheduled to meet in Muscat, Oman’s capital, Nov 9-10, as Tehran and the P5+1 group of Britain, China, France, Russia, the US plus Germany are set to resume talks Nov 18 in the Austrian capital of Vienna to push for a final deal by the cut-off date.