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[email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Obama, Rowhani Chaos, anger likely to meet in New York as bus drivers next week NEW YORK: An exchange of letters between Barack Obama and the Iranian president, go on strike Hassan Rowhani, has set the stage for a possible meeting between the two men at the UN next week in what would be Hundreds of students stranded the first face-to-face encounter between a US and Iranian leader DOHA: Hundreds of students children back home. since Iran’s 1979 revolution. of three prominent private Caught in a messy situation, Britain’s foreign secretary, schools here were stranded for the school management sent text William Hague, is also due to hours yesterday after bus driv- messages to the parents ask- meet his Iranian counterpart, ers transporting them went ing them to come and take the Mohammad Javad Zarif, at the UN on a flash strike demanding children home. However, many General Assembly meeting in New pay hike. parents said yesterday they had York, adding to guarded optimism The incident, the first of its received the message very late. that the June election of Rowhani, kind in the country, led to cha- As children didn’t reach home, a Glasgow-educated moderate, otic scenes at the Doha Modern the panicked parents tried to call and his appointment of a largely Indian School, the Cambridge the school but many failed to get pragmatic cabinet, has opened the School Doha and the Cambridge through because the telephones door to a diplomatic solution to the International School for Girls yes- jammed.