Iran's president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has responded to an overture by the new US president by demanding an apology for past US "crimes" committed against Iran.
The US "stood against the Iranian people in the past 60 years", Ahmadinejad said during an address in the western region of Khermenshah.
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