FILE PHOTO: U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper holds his first news conference at the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, U.S., August 28, 2019. REUTERS/Leah Millis
LONDON (Reuters) - U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper said on Friday that it appeared Iran was inching towards a place where talks could be held, days after U.S. President Donald Trump left the door open to a possible meeting with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani at the upcoming U.N. General Assembly in New York.
"It seems in some ways that Iran is inching towards that place where we could have talks and hopefully it'll play out that way," Esper said at the Royal United Services Institute think-tank in London.
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