British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said Monday that Iran is "too important a player" to leave it in isolation with sanctions on its controversial nuclear program - even while admitting there is no guarantee the Iranian regime won't seek nuclear weapons.
Hammond made the comments to BBC just before meeting Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, in a meeting that comes a day after he reopened the UK embassy in Tehran that was trashed by Iranian rioters in 2011 who apparently acted under state guidance - Iran did not bother to cover up the graffiti reading "death to England" still scrawled on several places in the embassy. (READ MORE)
